The Competition
There are 16 teams in the league and they play against each other twice in the league manner, once at their home and the other away. At the end of those two rounds, the teams are divided into two equal groups, top group and bottom group. The teams in each group play against each other once. The top eight teams at the end of this round, compete against each other in a five game series to determine the top two teams. The two teams that advance play a single game against each other to determine the league champion.
Ashkelon Gilboa Holon Jerusalem Ashdod Rishon LeZion Tel Aviv Haifa Netanya Eilat Teams 2012–13Read more about this topic: Israeli Basketball Super League
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“Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)
“So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.”
—William Morris (1834–1896)