The Euroleague has denied the information about holding the remaining matches in Moscow

In an interview with reporters of newspaper El Pais Scott supposedly said that the most likely candidates are Moscow, Istanbul or Athens.

However, a day later, the press service of the Euroleague issued a clarification. In particular, says that in his interview Mr Scott only talked about the possible options for the end of the season. One of the options, not a priority to play all the remaining matches in one country or city. At the same time Moscow has not been named. The Russian capital was mentioned by a Spanish journalist, when he talked about the possible options of cities.

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Recall that the Euroleague season was suspended due to coronavirus at the stage of the regular season. The management of the tournament has repeatedly stated his desire to bring the season to the end.

the priority is to finish the six rounds of the regular season to hold playoffs and the Final four.

there is an option in which may the Final four in Cologne will not take place. In this case, the Euroleague means compensates for the fans who bought tickets.

While the Euroleague management is looking for options the end of the season, Russia will launch the first interactive championship basketball

Earlier, the international basketball Federation (FIBA), which is the organizer of the Champions League (BLCH), decided that the season-2019/20 to be completed in the format of the Final eight.

the Tournament will be held from 30 September to 4 October 2020. The competition venue will be determined later.

Play for fun

the Basketball player of Russian national team and “Lokomotiv-Kuban” Dmitry Kulagin will participate in the first round of the championship of Russia on basketball interactive.

the First ever championship of Russia kicks off ninth APR. According to the organizers, toAdam four rounds of the regular championship will participate at the 30 players who will play for the 30 NBA teams.

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In the final tournament of 16 best teams on the system of the playoffs will determine the first champion. In addition to the Deposit insurance system among the participants of the first round will be the champion of the Amateur League Fantasy Cyberbasket Georgy Minasyan, one of the top three cybermercenaries CIS at the end of the season 2019, champion Amateur offline tournaments in Moscow in the Night of the League 3×3 Defas Ondonga, champion Amateur tournament “Cup PRO-AM 5×5 2019” Dmitri Ilyin and other well-known players.

the group stage Matches of the first round will begin every half hour from 19.30 to 22.00 Moscow time.

All six divisions will be played 60 games. Eight best teams from the Eastern and Western conferences will be in the playoffs, which will be held on April 11 (the first meeting was at 12.00).

the Broadcast will be available on the official website of the Russian basketball Federation (RBF).

Entered the Room

As reported by international news agencies, the American basketball players Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett were included in the official list of players who will join the Hall of fame James Naismith in the year 2020.

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it is Noted that Bryant will be inducted posthumously.

the Legendary defender club “Los Angeles Lakers” was tragically killed in January of this year, together with the daughter Giannou in the helicopter crash.

On account of Bryant’s five NBA titles in the “Lakers”. The defender ranked fourth on the list of most resultsof free players in the League. Also part of team USA, he won at the Olympic games.

in Addition to the basketball Hall of fame will be introduced four-time Olympic champion Tamika Catchings, four coaches: Rudy Tomjanovich, Kim Malki, Barbara Stevens and Eddie Sutton and former Secretary-General of the International basketball Federation Patrick Baumann, who died in 2018.

it is Reported that the ceremony of inclusion in the Hall of fame will take place August 28-30 in Springfield.