No.or there will be four Spanish teams in the Euroleague this next season, at least for now. He Dreamland Gran Canaria has confirmed that he will not participate in the maximum competition for economic reasons. The resignation of the island team was a possibility that it was gaining more and more strength, but now it is official through a statement from the team.
Now it remains to be seen what the Euroleague that will have to activate one more invitation. One possibility is to send it to the team that played the Eurocup final against Granca, the Turkish Telekom that if it participates it will be the third Turkish team. There is also the possibility that the wild card could be chosen by the Valencia Basketball or the Unicaja. Although that, now, is conjecture.
This is the statement from Gran Canaria in which he talks about a decision after an extraordinary session of the Board of Directors of CB Gran Canaria-Claret in which this decision was voted on when assessing a report prepared by the entity:
“This afternoon an extraordinary session of the Board of Directors of CB Gran Canaria-Claret, SAD was held to assess the report compiled by the entity and vote on the possible participation of the first team in the Turkish Airlines Euroleague.
Once the situation has been analyzed and the vote taken, the Board of Directors of Club Baloncesto Gran Canaria-Claret SAD has unanimously decided not to participate in the next edition of the Euroleague for financial reasons, and to return to play in the Eurocup.
The Club has called a press conference to attend to the media this Tuesday the 13th starting at 10:00 a.m.
