Professional European basketball clubs with budgets of €20 million euros or more 2008-09 season.
Some background on the clubs:
The national league of each club is the league that they compete in within their own country’s national domestic competition. The European league of each club is the international league that they compete in against clubs from all over Europe.
The premiere national domestic leagues in Europe are considered to be:
First Tier:
Spanish ACB League
Greek A1 League
Second Tier:
Italian A League
Russian Super League
The European-wide international leagues are ranked as follows:
First Tier: ULEB Euroleague
Second Tier: ULEB Eurocup
Third Tier: FIBA EuroChallenge
The Clubs:
Club Name: Olympiacos Piraeus
Budget: €48 million ($61.4 million)
Home City: Piraeus, Athens, Greece
National League: Greek A1 League
European League: Euroleague
Former NBA Players On Roster: 2
Josh Childress, Lynn Greer
Unsigned NBA Draft Picks On Roster: 3
Sofoklis Schortsanitis, Giorgos Printezis, Yotam Halperin
NBA Draft Prospects On Ro ster: 1
Kostas Sloukas
Club Name: CSKA Moscow
Budget: €43 million ($55 million)
Home City: Moscow, Russia
National League: Russian Super League
European League: Euroleague
Former NBA Players On Roster: 4
Terence Morris, Viktor Khryapa, Trajan Langdon, Zoran Planinić
Unsigned NBA Draft Picks On Roster: 2
Erazem Lorbek, Sasha Kaun
NBA Draft Prospects On Roster: 3
Semen Shaskov, Artem Zabelin, Alexey Shved
Club Name: Khimki Moscow
Budget: €35.2 million ($45 million)
Home City: Khimki, Moscow, Russia
National League: Russian Super League
European League: Eurocup
Former NBA Players On Roster: 6
Milt Palacio, Jerome Moiso, Carlos Delfino, Jorge Garbajosa, Kelly McCarty, Maciej Lampe
Unsigned NBA Draft Picks On Roster: 0
NBA Draft Prospects On Roster: 1
Anton Ponkrashov
Club Name: Dynamo Moscow
Budget: €35.2 million ($45 million)
Home City: Moscow, Russia
National League: Russian Super League
European League: Eurocup
Former NBA Players On Roster: 5
Travis Hansen, Jannero Pargo, Sergey Monya, Bostjan Nachbar, Yaroslav Korolev
Unsigned NBA Draft Picks On Roster: 1
Robertas Javtokas
NBA Draft Prospects On Roster: 0
Club Name: Panathinaikos Athens
Budget: €33 million ($42.2 million)
Home City: Athens, Greece
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National League: Greek A1 League
European League: Euroleague
Former NBA Players On Roster: 4
Mike Batiste, Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Antonis Fotsis, Vassilis Spanoulis
Unsigned NBA Draft Picks On Roster: 1
Nikola Peković
NBA Draft Prospects On Roster: 1
Giorgi Shermadini
Club Name: Real Madrid
Budget: €30 million ($38.4 million)
Home City: Madrid, Spain
National League: Spanish ACB League
European League: Euroleague
Former NBA Players On Roster: 2
Pepe Sánchez, Raúl López
Unsigned NBA Draft Picks On Roster: 3
Axel Hervelle, Louis Bullock, Venson Hamilton
NBA Draft Prospects On Roster: 1
Sergio Llul
Club Name: FC Barcelona
Budget: €30 million ($38.4 million)
Home City: Barcelona, Spain
National League: Spanish ACB League
European League: Euroleague
Former NBA Players On Roster: 4
Andre Barrett, Juan Carlos Navarro, Ersan Ilyasova, Daniel Santiago
Unsigned NBA Draft Picks On Roster: 2
David Andersen, Fran Vázquez
NBA Draft Prospects On Roster: 1
Nehad Djedovic
Club Name: Triumph Lyubertsy Moscow
Budget: €23.5 million ($30 million)
Home City: Lyubertsy, Moscow, Russia
National League: Russian Super League
European League: EuroChallenge
Former NBA Players On Roster: 3
J.R. Bremer, Alan Anderson, N enad Krstić
Unsigned NBA Draft Picks On Roster: 0
NBA Draft Prospects On Roster: 0
Club Name: Lokomotiv Rostov
Budget: €23.5 million ($30 million)
Home City: Rostov-on-Don, Russia
National League: Russian Super League
European League: EuroChallenge
Former NBA Players On Roster: 1
Nikita Morgunov
Unsigned NBA Draft Picks On Roster: 1
Szymon Szewczyk
NBA Draft Prospects On Roster: 0
Club Name: UNICS Kazan
Budget: €23.5 million ($30 million)
Home City: Kazan, Russia
National League: Russian Super League
European League: Eurocup
Former NBA Players On Roster: 1
Marc Jackson
Unsigned NBA Draft Picks On Roster: 1
Vladimir Veremeenko
NBA Draft Prospects On Roster: 0
Club Name: Maccabi Tel Aviv
Budget: €20 million ($25.6 million)
Home City: Tel Aviv, Israel
National League: Israeli Super League
European League: Euroleague
Former NBA Players On Roster: 3
Marcus Brown, Carlos Arroyo, Esteban Batista
Unsigned NBA Draft Picks On Roster: 1
Lior Eliyahu
NBA Draft Prospects On Roster: 1
Omri Casspi
Club Name: TAU Cerámica
Budget: €20 million ($25.6 million)
Home City: Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
National League: Spanish ACB League
European League: Euroleague
Former NBA Players=2 0On Roster: 2
Robert Hite, Igor Rakočević
Unsigned NBA Draft Picks On Roster: 3
Pete Mickeal, Stanko Barać, Tiago Splitter
NBA Draft Prospects On Roster: 1
Matías Nocedal
