{"id":478723,"date":"2026-01-13T15:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=478723"},"modified":"2026-01-13T15:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:57:21","slug":"euroleague-surprise-asvel-twist-not-stepping-away-from-a-10-year-license-but-no-commitment-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-surprise-asvel-twist-not-stepping-away-from-a-10-year-license-but-no-commitment-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroLeague, surprise ASVEL twist: not stepping away from a 10-year license, but no commitment yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1595\" data-end=\"1837\">At the shareholders meeting, <strong data-start=\"1624\" data-end=\"1637\">Barcelona<\/strong> outlined its direction and verbally backed a new <strong data-start=\"1687\" data-end=\"1717\">10-year EuroLeague license<\/strong>.<br data-start=\"1718\" data-end=\"1721\" \/>The unexpected development came from <strong data-start=\"1758\" data-end=\"1767\">ASVEL<\/strong>, which indicated it doesn\u2019t want to be excluded from future planning.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1839\" data-end=\"2052\">Sources say the French club pushed back against the assumption it would opt out, while still exploring its options.<br data-start=\"1954\" data-end=\"1957\" \/>At the same time, <strong data-start=\"1975\" data-end=\"1984\">ASVEL<\/strong> did not provide any formal or verbal commitment during the meeting.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2054\" data-end=\"2343\">The <strong data-start=\"2058\" data-end=\"2072\">January 15<\/strong> cutoff matters because teams not committing by then could face different terms if they stay later.<br data-start=\"2171\" data-end=\"2174\" \/>For now, BasketNews says <strong data-start=\"2199\" data-end=\"2211\">10 of 13<\/strong> shareholders are in, while <strong data-start=\"2239\" data-end=\"2253\">Fenerbahce<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2255\" data-end=\"2270\">Real Madrid<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"2276\" data-end=\"2285\">ASVEL<\/strong> remain undecided amid ongoing <strong data-start=\"2316\" data-end=\"2330\">NBA Europe<\/strong> uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2345\" data-end=\"2413\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Source: <em data-start=\"2353\" data-end=\"2365\">BasketNews<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BasketNews reports ASVEL Villeurbanne surprised the room by signaling it doesn\u2019t want to be ruled out of EuroLeague long-term plans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":320218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-478723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/COS_0399.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478723"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=478723"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=478723"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=478723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}