{"id":504913,"date":"2026-07-08T20:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=504913"},"modified":"2026-07-08T19:51:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:51:35","slug":"chus-bueno-the-euroleague-has-never-been-stronger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/chus-bueno-the-euroleague-has-never-been-stronger\/","title":{"rendered":"Chus Bueno: &#8220;The EuroLeague has never been stronger&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an exclusive interview with <em data-start=\"2047\" data-end=\"2056\">CityAM<\/em>, EuroLeague CEO Chus Bueno discussed the league&#8217;s future, the NBA Europe project and why he believes European basketball&#8217;s top competition is stronger than ever.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The EuroLeague has never been stronger.&#8221; That was the key message from CEO Chus Bueno in his exclusive interview with <em>City AM<\/em>, where he outlined the league&#8217;s long-term vision and confidence ahead of the NBA&#8217;s European expansion plans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How strong is the EuroLeague today?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can say that we have never been better. We&#8217;re stronger, we&#8217;re together for 10 years, and the teams want to move to a franchise model, which means staying together forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bueno also dismissed concerns about the NBA&#8217;s growing presence in Europe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you worried about NBA Europe?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s OK to compete. We already compete with the Basketball Champions League. The EuroLeague will never disappear. Even in the worst-case scenario, if five teams leave, we would still have 15 teams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the rivalry, Bueno believes cooperation remains possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can the EuroLeague and NBA still reach an agreement?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope so. I&#8217;m an optimistic guy and I think we can still figure it out. We haven&#8217;t found the right click yet, but from one week to another things can change.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to City AM, the EuroLeague CEO says the competition is ready to face NBA Europe while still hoping for a future agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":481526,"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":[199,399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-504913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/6fab4ce6-613c-47a6-8651-c0607abb7886.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504913","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504913"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=504913"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=504913"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=504913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}