Hosted by a Serbian tv show, Serbian Olympic Committee and former basketball player Boza Maljkovic has weighted in on the relationship between Euroleague and Serbian Basketball. 

Red Star is playing with 8 foreign players, Partizan with 7-8? 

And what will happen at the end?  I would love that some of those teams win a title, but what will happen after that?  They will not play Euroleague!  So, why did we play? 

What is the solution? 

The problem is this way of thinking from Euroleague.  I talked to Jordi Bertomeu in Belgrade, we were at lunch, and I said to him that it is impossible that this region does not give a team to Euroleague.  But obviously, the strength of capital wins.  We all know who is from Saint Petersburg…

Do not jinx, since we believe that a champion of ABA league will play at least for few more years…

But what if we don’t?  I don’t think it will! 

You think so? 

I believe so.  We need to think about new models of competition.  If someone is interested, I could prepare my project for a new competition.  If no one is interested, we will continue like this.  We will play, there will be a lot of American players, and there will be no benefit for our basketball. 

Everything is about money.  This Euroleague, that is now being created, is based only on money, no one thinks about the development of basketball.  If we know that Liverpool took 300 million euros for winning a Champions League, there is nothing to add.  In basketball, Barcelona, and Real, they are in deficit.