Anonymous
Years ago
Basketball Needs a Champions League
I really do not understand why basketball doesn't have its own equivalent on the champions league. Basketball should follow soccer format of a champions league for every continent (except Australia should also be included in Asia basketball as well) and then a world champions league consisting of the champions of each continent. The Asian champions league has generate massive amounts of excitement and interest in Adelaide with Adelaide United getting to play against the powerhouse Asian teams (and drawing huge media attention as they win!). It also presents Adelaide with the opportunity to play against world-class teams like Manchester United, AC Milan etc if they win the Asian Champions league. Imagine having this in basketball. Aussie teams playing against Asian teams and then even NBA and European teams if they won. Sure the Aussie teams wouldn't stand a chance of winning it all but it sure would be exiting. FIBA really should look into something like this. I believe they used to have something like what I'm talking about called the McDonalds Championship. Why did that close down? Did the Sixers get to play against any NBA teams?
