2000–01 Euroleague
The inaugural Euroleague season 2000-01 under the new Euroleague Basketball (Company) authority started on October 16, 2000, with a regular season game between hosts Real Madrid and Olympiacos at the Raimundo Saporta Pavilion in Madrid, Spain, and ended with the championship finals game on May 10, 2001, at the PalaMalaguti arena in Bologna, Italy. This Euroleague season did not feature all the best European teams as some of them opted to compete in the FIBA SuproLeague after the row erupted between the previous Euroleague governing body FIBA, and the newly established Euroleague Basketball.
The total of 24 teams competed for the Euroleague Basketball title, which was in the end won by Bologna. Dejan Tomašević was the regular season MVP and Manu Ginóbili was the Euroleague Final Four MVP.
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