101 Greats of European Basketball

FOREWORD
By Jordi Bertomeu,
President & CEO Euroleague Basketball
A retrospective look at European basketball as proposed
to us in this book leads us both to admire the
enormous and endless capacity of our continent for
creating talent and to recognise the ability of its main
protagonists to evolve and adapt themselves to the
different circumstances and vicissitudes that European
basketball has gone through over the last few
decades.
Sport is not isolated from the political, economic
and social conditions that have been defining our continent
since the end of the second great armed conflict
that Europe suffered in the twentieth century. Understanding
what happened in the various countries, in the
various blocs that shaped the post-war Europe and the
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