Eurocup Basketball (also known as the ULEB Eurocup and previously known as the ULEB Cup from 2002–2008) is the second-tier level transnational professional basketball competition in Europe, below only the Turkish Airlines Euroleague. It is composed of teams from European domestic national leagues that are part of the ULEB (a French acronym for "Union of European Basketball Leagues"), and that do not have a contract to compete in the Euroleague.
Teams qualify for the competition merely based on their performance in their national league and cup competition. The Eurocup was created in 2002, and can be considered as a fusion between the defunct FIBA Korać Cup and Saporta Cup competitions.
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“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
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