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2009 EuroLeague American Tour


FieldValue
title2009 EuroLeague American Tour
sportBasketball
duration3-20 October 2009
no_of_teams9
seasonslistnamesEuroLeague American Tour
nextseason_link2010 EuroLeague American Tour
nextseason_year2010

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The 2009 Euroleague American Tour inaugurated a yearly basketball exhibition Tour organized by the Euroleague in the United States. The aim of the Euroleague American Tour is to expose to American basketball fans a different basketball approach than the one presented by the NBA, a lot more similar to the NCAA one.

The Euroleague teams that participated in that first edition were Partizan Belgrade, Olympiacos and Maccabi Tel Aviv. On the other hand, the NBA franchises that played against them were the Denver Nuggets, the Phoenix Suns, the San Antonio Spurs, the New York Knicks and the Cleveland Cavaliers. The NBA rules that applied to the event combined with the fact that the opponents were all top class NBA teams led to consecutive losses for the Euroleague representants. In Partizan's case, things were even worse as they competed without future All-Euroleague point guard Bo McCalebb and power forward Lawrence Roberts.

Overall, in spite of the fact that Euroleague teams seemed unable to threaten their NBA competition within the United States, they demonstrated some of the advantages that make them high-class basketball organizations: Solid fundamentals, outstanding team play and some of the best players of FIBA Basketball like Theo Papaloukas, Miloš Teodosić, Aleks Marić, Ioannis Bourousis and Sofoklis Schortsanitis to name a few.

Participants

ContinentTeamsClubs
Europe3GRE Olympiacos
North America6USA Denver Nuggets

Games

Stats

ClubGamesRecord
USA Denver Nuggets11–0
USA New York Knicks11–0
USA Cleveland Cavaliers11–0
USA Los Angeles Clippers11–0
USA San Antonio Spurs11–0
USA Phoenix Suns11–0
GRE Olympiacos20-2
SRB Partizan Belgrade20-2
ISR Maccabi Tel Aviv20-2

Topscorer:

  • AUS SRB Aleks Marić (35 pts - 2 games)
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