Euroleague
10-14-2015, 06:40 PM
Approved and passed new changes that have just been approved by FIBA include:
1. All players of all national teams must have their contracts 100% fully insured by their national teams, and they must have full 100% all cost covered insurance for the players.
In other words, the NBA owners can no longer bitch and complain about "costs" and "no insurance", and "risks of losing players with huge contracts" and blah blah blah. Under the passed new rules, every single national team has to fully pay to entirely cover the injuries, medical costs, and contracts of all players.
2. For all continental championships (for example, EuroBasket, which is still going to exist under the new FIBA schedule), and for the FIBA World Cup, and Olympic basketball, players will not be allowed to spend more than 28 days training or practicing with their national teams. Players will, under the new rules, only be allowed to spend 28 days total with a national team at maximum, in addition to the amount of time spent at the tournament, which are usually about a few days (for most teams), to maybe 10-12 days max, if you went all the way.
So once again, the NBA owners can no longer bitch and moan about how "NBA players spend their whole summer playing for their national team". At most, a player could spend 4-6 weeks doing so. 4-6 weeks, out of the 4-6 months of the NBA off season. So again, FIBA made it where NBA owners can't bitch anymore, unless they want to all be lumped in with Mark Cuban.
3. FIBA passed new rules that professional basketball leagues run by FIBA, and FIBA national team events, can share and gain revenues and profits from each other, thus allowing pro clubs to earn more money through the huge FIBA events (EuroBasket, FIBA World Cup). This means that club leagues run by FIBA, like FIBA Americas League, the FIBA Asian Club Championship, and the new FIBA Europe Cup, can greatly increase their profits, and so can the clubs competing in them.
4. The new FIBA Europe Cup league, which just started this season, and has replaced the FIBA EuroChallenge (the league where Deron Williams played in that idiot NBA only fans claim is "the Euroleague") as the 3rd tier level continental league in Europe, will move up to become the 2nd tier continental league in Europe after next season.
The new league will then be able to share in FIBA's profits from events like EuroBasket for example, and have a big budget, and teams will earn much more profits then also. The league will be huge in scope, with 100 teams playing in it, which will allow to better accommodate for all of Europe to have a true secondary European league, after Euroleague.
5. In order to make the schedules and training in Europe uniform and to help give more time off for European league players that play with their countries in the summer (as it is now European players that play in Euroleague and their national team get about 1 month off total every year), many of the pro national domestic and regional leagues around Europe will be contracted. The hope is also that this will reverse the recent trend of most of the top European players that don't play in the NBA, either retiring early from their national teams, or not even wanting to play any with their national teams at all.
And that it will thus help increase the competition levels of EuroBasket, FIBA World Cup, and the Olympics, by getting many of the top European players to play more for their national teams, getting them to not retire early, and having them to be a lot fresher and less tired during the international tournaments. By making the total grind on their bodies more like it was 10-15 years ago, versus now, or more similar to what NBA players have when they also play with their national teams.
This is also being done in order to help increase the level of playing competition in the European national domestic leagues, by contracting a number of teams, and thus increasing the quality of the national leagues. The contracted teams will simply be relegated down into the national second divisions.
Some of these new rules go into effect immediately, some in 2016, some in 2017, and some in 2019. They have all been passed though, and are final.
1. All players of all national teams must have their contracts 100% fully insured by their national teams, and they must have full 100% all cost covered insurance for the players.
In other words, the NBA owners can no longer bitch and complain about "costs" and "no insurance", and "risks of losing players with huge contracts" and blah blah blah. Under the passed new rules, every single national team has to fully pay to entirely cover the injuries, medical costs, and contracts of all players.
2. For all continental championships (for example, EuroBasket, which is still going to exist under the new FIBA schedule), and for the FIBA World Cup, and Olympic basketball, players will not be allowed to spend more than 28 days training or practicing with their national teams. Players will, under the new rules, only be allowed to spend 28 days total with a national team at maximum, in addition to the amount of time spent at the tournament, which are usually about a few days (for most teams), to maybe 10-12 days max, if you went all the way.
So once again, the NBA owners can no longer bitch and moan about how "NBA players spend their whole summer playing for their national team". At most, a player could spend 4-6 weeks doing so. 4-6 weeks, out of the 4-6 months of the NBA off season. So again, FIBA made it where NBA owners can't bitch anymore, unless they want to all be lumped in with Mark Cuban.
3. FIBA passed new rules that professional basketball leagues run by FIBA, and FIBA national team events, can share and gain revenues and profits from each other, thus allowing pro clubs to earn more money through the huge FIBA events (EuroBasket, FIBA World Cup). This means that club leagues run by FIBA, like FIBA Americas League, the FIBA Asian Club Championship, and the new FIBA Europe Cup, can greatly increase their profits, and so can the clubs competing in them.
4. The new FIBA Europe Cup league, which just started this season, and has replaced the FIBA EuroChallenge (the league where Deron Williams played in that idiot NBA only fans claim is "the Euroleague") as the 3rd tier level continental league in Europe, will move up to become the 2nd tier continental league in Europe after next season.
The new league will then be able to share in FIBA's profits from events like EuroBasket for example, and have a big budget, and teams will earn much more profits then also. The league will be huge in scope, with 100 teams playing in it, which will allow to better accommodate for all of Europe to have a true secondary European league, after Euroleague.
5. In order to make the schedules and training in Europe uniform and to help give more time off for European league players that play with their countries in the summer (as it is now European players that play in Euroleague and their national team get about 1 month off total every year), many of the pro national domestic and regional leagues around Europe will be contracted. The hope is also that this will reverse the recent trend of most of the top European players that don't play in the NBA, either retiring early from their national teams, or not even wanting to play any with their national teams at all.
And that it will thus help increase the competition levels of EuroBasket, FIBA World Cup, and the Olympics, by getting many of the top European players to play more for their national teams, getting them to not retire early, and having them to be a lot fresher and less tired during the international tournaments. By making the total grind on their bodies more like it was 10-15 years ago, versus now, or more similar to what NBA players have when they also play with their national teams.
This is also being done in order to help increase the level of playing competition in the European national domestic leagues, by contracting a number of teams, and thus increasing the quality of the national leagues. The contracted teams will simply be relegated down into the national second divisions.
Some of these new rules go into effect immediately, some in 2016, some in 2017, and some in 2019. They have all been passed though, and are final.