The NBA is essentially its own governing body with a fairly straight forward structure. The NBA is headed by the Commissioner, Adam Silver who possesses a lot of power in the league. The teams will draft players to get into the league. The playoffs for the NBA includes 8 teams from each of the two conferences with the three division winners receiving the 3 highest seeds, and the remaining teams being seeded in order of record. They play a best of seven series, and the team with the best record will receive home court advantage.
Euroleague is very different from the NBA's structure. Euroleague is composed of different teams from the different basketball leagues in each country. Euroleague is separate from the individual countries leagues and is basically a playoff league. On the other hand the NBA is a completely self contained league with the regular season and playoffs all under the control of the NBA. Euroleague gives out a certain number of A, B and C licenses and the teams that have a license are allowed to play in Euroleague. The regular season starts with 24 teams with 6 teams in each of the four divisions. Each team in each division plays the others twice and then 8 teams are eliminated. Then there is the top 16, the quarterfinals and the Final Four. Another major difference is that these games are single elimination while the NBA plays prolonged series.
The NBA seems to have a good system but the playoffs are so prolonged and a lot of the regular season seems meaningless with so many games. Euroleague has a March Madness like structure but I'm not sure how much I like the single elimination. What do you think is the best format for a league?
-Brad Williams
http://www.euroleague.net/rs/47719/84bd1f8d-134d-42a0-a8ee-cd688d29aaa2/301/filename/2013-2014-el-bylaws.pdf
http://www.euroleague.net/competition/format
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