Chus Bueno on NBA Europe competition: 'EuroLeague will never disappear'

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CEO Chus Bueno insists EuroLeague is not afraid of competition, even if the NBA’s planned incursion represents a far bigger threat than its current rival, the Basketball Champions League run by world governing body Fiba, which has thrown its lot in with the NBA. “It’s OK to compete. I mean, we compete with the BCL, it’s fine,” the Spaniard says. “One thing that people need to understand, EuroLeague will never disappear. Even in the worst case scenario, five teams go [to NBA Europe], the EuroLeague will still have 15 teams, so there’s no way that the year league will disappear.”

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