2009 EuroLeague American Tour

2009 EuroLeague American Tour
SportBasketball
Duration3-20 October 2009
Teams9

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.

The three EuroLeague teams lost all six games against their NBA opponents.

Participants

Games

Stats

Club Games Record
United States Denver Nuggets11–0
United States New York Knicks11–0
United States Cleveland Cavaliers11–0
United States Los Angeles Clippers11–0
United States San Antonio Spurs11–0
United States Phoenix Suns11–0
Greece Olympiacos20-2
Serbia Partizan Belgrade20-2
Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv20-2

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