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2000–01 Euroleague

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[2001–02](2001-02-euroleague)
title	Euroleague
season	2000–01
t_bg	#2A2D62; border:2px solid orange;
t_color	white
champions	ITA Kinder Bologna
(2nd title)
runners_up	ESP Tau Cerámica
continentalcup		continentalcup qualifiers =
continentalcup2		continentalcup2 qualifiers =
teams	24
playoffs_MVP		playoffs_MVP_link =	playoffs_MVP_n =
final_four_MVP		final_four_MVP_link =	final_four_MVP_n = ARG
award4	Regular Season MVP	award4_winner = Dejan Tomašević	award4_link = EuroLeague Regular Season and Top 16 MVP	award4_n = FRY
award5	Top 16 MVP	award5_winner =	award5_link =	award5_n = FRY
finals_MVP	Manu Ginóbili
finals_MVP_n	ARG
finals_MVP_link	EuroLeague Final Four MVP
PIR_leader	Dejan Tomašević
pir	30.9
pir_n	FRY
top_scorer	Alphonso Ford
ppg	26.0
ppg_n	USA
rebounds_leader	Dejan Tomašević
rpg	11.5
rpg_n	FRY
assists_leader	Ivica Marić
apg	5.9
apg_n	CRO

2001–02 (2nd title) The 2000–01 ULEB Euroleague was the inaugural basketball season of the EuroLeague, under ULEB and its newly formed Euroleague Basketball Company authority. Overall it was the 44th season of the premier competition for European men's professional basketball clubs overall. Initially it was not recognised or sanctioned by FIBA and considered a breakaway competition. It started on October 16, 2000, with a regular season game between hosts Real Madrid Teka and Olympiacos, which was held at the Raimundo Saporta Pavilion, in Madrid, Spain, and it ended with the last championship finals game on May 10, 2001, which was held at the PalaMalaguti arena, in Bologna, Italy.

This season did not feature all of the top-tier level European club basketball teams, as some of them opted to compete in the 2000–01 FIBA SuproLeague competition instead, after the row erupted between the previous EuroLeague governing body, FIBA, and the newly established Euroleague Basketball Company. It was the first time in European basketball that several clubs did not qualify to a European competition based on performance, but instead wild cards were given. Top clubs also signed licences with the right to participate in upcoming seasons regardless of their domestic league ranking.

A total of 24 teams competed for the EuroLeague title, which was ultimately won by Kinder Bologna. Dejan Tomašević was the EuroLeague Regular Season MVP, and Manu Ginóbili was the Finals MVP.

European Champions' Cup teams divided

Main article: FIBA–EuroLeague dispute

The FIBA European Champions' Cup was originally established by FIBA and it operated under its umbrella from 1958 until the summer of 2000, concluding with the 1999–2000 season. Euroleague Basketball Company was created by ULEB clubs in 2000. At the time the leagues of ULEB were Spain, Italy, Greece, Belgium, Portugal, England and Switzerland. However against the will of their domestic leagues clubs from Lithuania, Croatia, Russia, Israel and Slovenia opted for the Euroleague competition despite the fact that their leagues were not members of ULEB.

FIBA had never trademarked the "EuroLeague" name and had no legal recourse on the usage of that name, so they had to find a new name for their league. The following 2000–01 season started with two top European professional club basketball competitions: FIBA SuproLeague (renamed from the FIBA EuroLeague) and Euroleague.

Top clubs were split between the two leagues: Panathinaikos, Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv, CSKA Moscow, and Efes Pilsen stayed with FIBA, while Olympiacos, Kinder Bologna, Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Tau Cerámica, and Benetton Treviso joined Euroleague Basketball. Lugano Tigers the Swiss champions were the last team to join the ULEB side and enter the competition.

Rules, format changes and dates

On 11 July 2000 in Thessaloniki during the ULEB Assembly format changes and dates were set for the new competition The Official List of the teams will include a minimum of 12 and a maximum of 16 players. Ten players will be allowed on the bench while 2 USA players per team are permitted. There was no Final Four but a best of three series in the Final.

Andrea Bassani (ex-General Manager of the Italian League) was appointed in the Assembly as the Manager of Marketing and Media of the Euroleague.

Referees

Kostas Rigas was elected commissioner. Three referees will officiate every Euroleague game. The team of officials will be made up of 45 referees who have signed guaranteed contracts for three years with no age restriction. However FIBA did not allow them to officiate in their domestic leagues in 2000-01.

Dates

Games will be played on Thursdays, with the possibility of moving them forward to Wednesday when necessary.

Regular season: 19 October 2000 to 8 January 2001
Play-offs 1/8 finals- 1,8,15 February 2001
Play-offs ¼ finals: 22 Feb, 1, 8 March 2001
Semi-finals: 27, 29 March, 3, 5, 12 April 2001
Finals: 17, 19 April, 1, 3, 10 May 2001

Team allocation

A total of 24 teams from 14 countries participate in the competition.

Distribution

The table below shows the default access list.

Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round	Regular season
(24 teams)	Playoffs
(16 teams)

The competition culminated in a best 3 out of 5 playoff series.

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round

1st, 2nd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
WC: Wild card

Regular season
GRE PAOK ([2nd](1999-2000-greek-basket-league))
GRE Olympiacos ([3rd](1999-2000-greek-basket-league))
GRE AEK ([4th](1999-2000-greek-basket-league))
GRE Peristeri ([5th](1999-2000-greek-basket-league))
ITA Paf Wennington Bologna (1st)
ITA Benetton Treviso (2nd)

Regular season

The first phase was a regular season, in which the competing teams were drawn into four groups, each containing six teams. Each team played every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 10 games for each team in the first stage. The top 4 teams in each group advanced to the next round, The Top 16. The complete list of tiebreakers is provided in the lead-in to the Regular Season results.

If one or more clubs were level on won-lost record, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:

Head-to-head record in matches between the tied clubs
Overall point difference in games between the tied clubs
Overall point difference in all group matches (first tiebreaker if tied clubs were not in the same group)
Points scored in all group matches
Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification	ITA PAF	GRE PER	LTU ZAL	ESP EST	SWI LUG	CRO ZAD
ITA Paf Wennington Bologna	10	8	2	812	760	+52	Advance to [Playoffs](2000-01-euroleague-playoffs)		—	71–69	91–85	81–72	81–66	81–77
GRE Peristeri	10	7	3	841	786	+55		83–70	—	74–92	91–81	85–68	92–73
LTU Žalgiris	10	6	4	866	816	+50		73–56	86–73	—	77–80	105–89	97–85
ESP Adecco Estudiantes	10	4	6	820	821	−1		76–90	86–91	87–77	—	97–76	93–81
SWI Lugano Snakes	10	3	7	777	914	−137			72–100	80–91	95–87	77–76	—	75–74
CRO Zadar	10	2	8	840	859	−19		87–91	79–92	86–87	80–72	118–79	—

Source: Euroleague

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification	ITA KIN	GRE AEK	ESP TAU	CRO CIB	RUS SPL	BEL SPI
ITA Kinder Bologna	10	9	1	835	734	+101	Advance to [Playoffs](2000-01-euroleague-playoffs)		—	81–66	76–73	106–88	84–78	106–87
GRE AEK	10	8	2	805	746	+59		78–77	—	64–52	83–75	84–73	97–73
ESP Tau Cerámica	10	6	4	749	700	+49		59–65	85–65	—	92–66	97–88	76–64
CRO Cibona	10	3	7	773	832	−59		69–74	72–81	62–60	—	75–70	85–70
RUS Saint Petersburg Lions	10	2	8	778	840	−62			78–82	69–90	79–81	92–90	—	83–77
BEL Spirou Charleroi	10	2	8	769	857	−88		58–80	89–97	71–74	100–91	80–68	—

Source: Euroleague

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification	GRE OLY	ESP RMB	SLO UOL	ITA BEN	ISR JER	POR OVA
GRE Olympiacos	10	7	3	861	738	+123	Advance to [Playoffs](2000-01-euroleague-playoffs)		—	91–84	82–70	82–73	102–69	101–67
ESP Real Madrid Teka	10	7	3	859	789	+70		75–73	—	82–70	64–75	104–64	116–94
SLO Union Olimpija	10	7	3	823	752	+71		69–73	88–79	—	78–74	95–68	102–79
ITA Benetton Treviso	10	6	4	847	777	+70		95–87	87–88	69–71	—	78–71	106–81
ISR Hapoel Jerusalem	10	3	7	784	881	−97			83–70	74–87	76–88	79–104	—	106–71
POR Ovarense Aerosoles	10	0	10	746	983	−237		53–100	73–80	70–92	76–86	82–94	—

Source: Euroleague

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification	ESP FCB	GRE PAO	FRY POD	ITA VER	UK LON	GER SKY
ESP FC Barcelona	10	8	2	856	757	+99	Advance to [Playoffs](2000-01-euroleague-playoffs)		—	58–67	92–75	96–84	82–76	86–60
GRE PAOK	10	7	3	846	773	+73		91–102	—	89–72	97–94	70–58	100–70
FRY Budućnost	10	7	3	844	819	+25		77–85	83–71	—	77–73	101–83	79–73
ITA Müller Verona	10	6	4	920	854	+66		94–90	102–88	86–91	—	102–76	90–70
UK Haribo London Towers	10	1	9	775	878	−103			82–97	61–93	88–95	89–98	—	86–61
GER Opel Skyliners	10	1	9	696	856	−160		51–68	73–80	79–94	80–97	79–76	—

Source: Euroleague

Playoffs

Bracket

Teams in bold advanced to the next round. The numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's seeding, the numbers to the right indicate the result of games including result in bold of the team that won in that game, and the numbers furthest to the right indicate the number of games the team won in that round.

First Round

In a best-of-three series the remaining 16 teams were placed against each other. The games were held between the 31st of January and the 14th of February, 2001, with the top 8 teams advancing to the Playoffs. |}

Quarterfinals

In a best-of-three series the remaining eight teams were placed against each other. The games were held between 21 February and 7 March 2001, with the top 4 teams advancing to the semifinals.

Semifinals

In a best-of-five series the remaining four teams were placed against each other. The games were held between the 27th of March and the 7th of April, 2001.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg	4th leg	5th leg
Kinder Bologna ITA	3–0	ITA Paf Wennington Bologna	103–76	92–84	74–70
AEK GRE	0–3	ESP Tau Cerámica	65–90*	67–70	62–76

Note:The game was replayed between the second and the third game. AEK won the originally game 75-74 after overtime. Dimos Dikoudis scored the winning basket into appears. After Tau's appeal, ULEB's judge decided the replay of the game.

Finals

Main article: 2001 Euroleague Finals

The culminating stage of the Euroleague season, the two remaining teams that won the semifinal series played each other in a best-of-five series.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg	4th leg	5th leg
Kinder Bologna ITA	3–2	ESP Tau Cerámica	65–78	94–73	80–60	79–96	82–74

2000–01 Euroleague Champions
ITA
Kinder Bologna
2nd Title

Awards

Top Scorer

Player	Team
USA Alphonso Ford	GRE Peristeri

Regular Season MVP

Player	Team
FRY Dejan Tomašević	FRY Budućnost

Finals MVP

Player	Team
Argentina Manu Ginóbili	ITA Kinder Bologna

Finals Top Scorer

Player	Team
Argentina Manu Ginóbili	ITA Kinder Bologna
USA Elmer Bennett	ESP Tau Cerámica
USA Victor Alexander	ESP Tau Cerámica

All-Euroleague First Team

Player	Team
USA Louis Bullock	ITA Müller Verona
USA Alphonso Ford	GRE Peristeri
USA Derrick Hamilton	RUS Saint Petersburg Lions
ITA Gregor Fučka	ITA Paf Wennington Bologna
FRY Dejan Tomašević	FRY Budućnost

All-Euroleague Second Team

Player	Team
USA Jemeil Rich	SWI Lugano Snakes
GRE Panagiotis Liadelis	GRE PAOK
ESP Pau Gasol	ESP FC Barcelona
GRE Ioannis Giannoulis	GRE PAOK
USA Rashard Griffith	ITA Kinder Bologna

Round MVP

Main article: EuroLeague MVP of the Round

Regular season

Week	Player	Team
1	GRE Panagiotis Liadelis	GRE PAOK
2	FRY Dejan Tomašević	FRY Budućnost
ITA Gianluca Basile	ITA Paf Wennington Bologna
3	FRY Milenko Topić	FRY Budućnost
4	FRY Dejan Tomašević (2)	FRY Budućnost
5	USA Derrick Hamilton	RUS St. Petersburg Lions
6	CRO Darko Krunić	CRO Zadar
7	ITA Gregor Fučka	ITA Paf Wennington Bologna
8	USA Kebu Stewart	ISR Hapoel Jerusalem
9	USA Derrick Hamilton (2)	RUS St. Petersburg Lions
10	ARG Marcelo Nicola	ITA Benetton Treviso

Playoffs

Game	Player	Team
8thF G1	USA Alphonso Ford	GRE Peristeri
8thF G2	FRY Dejan Tomašević (3)	FRY Budućnost
CRO Dino Rađja	GRE Olympiakos
ITA Riccardo Pittis	ITA Benetton Treviso
8thF G3	GRE Angelos Koronios	GRE PAOK
CRO Emilio Kovačić	SVN Union Olimpija
4F G1	ITA Gregor Fučka (2)	ITA Paf Wennington Bologna
4F G2	USA Rashard Griffith	ITA Kinder Bologna
4F G3	ITA Carlton Myers	ITA Paf Wennington Bologna
SF G1	LIT Saulius Štombergas	ESP Tau Cerámica
SF G2	USA Elmer Bennett	ESP Tau Cerámica
SF G3	ARG Fabricio Oberto	ESP Tau Cerámica
Final G1	USA Victor Alexander	ESP Tau Cerámica
Final G2	FRA Antoine Rigaudeau	ITA Kinder Bologna
Final G3	ARG Manu Ginóbili	ITA Kinder Bologna
Final G4	USA Elmer Bennett (2)	ESP Tau Cerámica
Final G5	USA Rashard Griffith (2)	ITA Kinder Bologna

Individual statistics

Rating

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	PIR
1.	FRY Dejan Tomašević	FRY Budućnost	12	371	30.92
2.	USA Derrick Hamilton	RUS Saint Petersburg Lions	10	283	28.30
3.	USA Alphonso Ford	GRE Peristeri	12	305	25.42

Points

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Points	PPG
1.	USA Alphonso Ford	GRE Peristeri	12	312	26.00
2.	FRY Dejan Tomašević	FRY Budućnost	12	275	22.92
3.	GRE Panagiotis Liadelis	GRE PAOK	13	295	22.69

Rebounds

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rebounds	RPG
1.	FRY Dejan Tomašević	FRY Budućnost	12	138	11.50
2.	CRO Dino Rađa	GRE Olympiacos	14	137	9.79
3.	BEL Ron Ellis	BEL Region Wallone Spirou	10	96	9.60

Assists

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Assists	APG
1.	CRO Ivica Marić	CRO Zadar	10	59	5.90
2.	USA Elmer Bennett	ESP Tau Cerámica	22	120	5.45
3.	ITA Riccardo Pittis	ITA Benetton Treviso		14	54	3.86

Other statistics

Category	Player	Team	Games	Average	Steals	Blocks	Turnovers	Fouls drawn	Minutes	2P%	3P%	FT%
CRO Ivica Marić	CRO Zadar
USA Jemeil Rich	SWI Lugano Snakes
UKR Grigorij Khizhnyak	LTU Žalgiris
RUS Sergei Bazarevich	RUS Saint Petersburg Lions
GRE Panagiotis Liadelis	GRE PAOK
USA Derrick Hamilton	RUS Saint Petersburg Lions
FRA Stéphane Risacher	GRE Olympiacos
ARG Jorge Racca	GRE PAOK
USA Henry Williams	ITA Müller Verona

Individual game highs

Category	Player		width=200
USA Kebu Stewart	ISR Hapoel Jerusalem
ITA Carlton Myers	ITA Paf Wennington Bologna
USA Alphonso Ford	GRE Peristeri
USA Victor Alexander	ESP Tau Cerámica
USA Elmer Bennett	ESP Tau Cerámica
ARG Manu Ginóbili	ITA Kinder Bologna
FRY Bojan Bakić	FRY Budućnost
CRO Stojan Vranković	ITA Paf Wennington Bologna
LIT Saulius Štombergas	ESP Tau Cerámica
RUS Sergei Bazarevich	RUS Saint Petersburg Lions	{{center	11

Aftermath

In May 2001, Europe had two continental champions, Maccabi Tel Aviv of the FIBA SuproLeague and Kinder Bologna of Euroleague Basketball Company's EuroLeague. The leaders of both organizations realized the need to come up with a new single competition. Negotiating from the position of strength ULEB dictated proceedings, and FIBA essentially had no choice but to agree to their terms. As a result, the EuroLeague was fully integrated under Euroleague Basketball Company's umbrella, and teams that competed in the FIBA SuproLeague during the 2000–01 season joined it as well. It is today officially admitted that European basketball had two champions that year, Maccabi of the FIBA SuproLeague and Kinder Bologna of the Euroleague Basketball Company's EuroLeague.

A year later, Euroleague Basketball Company and FIBA decided that Euroleague Basketball's EuroLeague competition would be the main basketball tournament on the continent, to be played between the top level teams of Europe. FIBA Europe would also organize a European league for third-tier level teams, known as the FIBA Europe League competition, while Euroleague Basketball would also organize its own second-tier level league, combining FIBA's long-time Korać Cup and Saporta Cup competitions into one new competition, the EuroCup. In 2005, Euroleague Basketball and FIBA decided to cooperate with each other, and did so jointly until 2016.

In essence, the authority in European professional basketball was divided over club-country lines. FIBA stayed in charge of national team competitions (like the FIBA EuroBasket, the FIBA World Cup, and the Summer Olympics), while Euroleague Basketball took over the European professional club competitions. From that point on, FIBA's Korać Cup and Saporta Cup competitions lasted only one more season before folding and merged to the FIBA Europe Champions Cup in 2002 which was when Euroleague Basketball launched the ULEB Cup.

References and notes

Sources

References

"EL.net interview: Eduardo Portela".
[https://web.archive.org/web/20010406215807/http://www.euroleague.net/index.jsp ULEB members in 2000]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20010406215843/http://www.euroleague.net/news_salonica.jsp ULEB Assembly 2000]

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