Which NBA teams do EL teams correlate to?

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@panathinakos: I'm very curious how you got to maccabi-mavs? I mean those are two opposites as much as I can tell. I mean mavs are losers, maccabi has won 3 championships only in the last 10 years,mavs are big spenders, maccabi is far from the richest teams...

The team I can find most similar to maccabi would be the spurs (maybe that's because I love both teams ) never the richest, built smartly and quietly, foreign players are dominant, 3 championships last decade, dominant big man that was one of the best and stayed for years (vujcic-duncan)

The question I believe, as it was intended to mean, was which team are they most similar to, not which team are they most historically comparable to. In the current time, I would say Maccabi is closest to the Mavs.