For the past weeks, the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague has been announcing through media channels the top 25 players from the competition, since the current format of the basketball league was created on June 2000, 25 years ago. It comes from a selection of votes from EuroLeague head coaches who had won a championship, past All-Decade Team members and MVPs, and in a lesser degree, media representatives (10%), and fans (10%).
The final batch of 5 players was announced this week, so we finally have a list of the All-25 EuroLeague Team from the best teams of the competition for the latest 25 years. The future of the competition, however, may be marked by the arrival of the European NBA league, which could be a semi-open format, allowing the top teams of the EuroLeague to participate, according to recent reports.
Top 25 players in EuroLeague history:
Rudy Fernandez
Sarunas Jasikevicius
Shane Larkin
Manu Ginobili
Kostas Sloukas
Luka Doncic
Milos Teodosic
Dejan Bodiroga
Georgios Printezis
Walter Tavares
Dimitris Diamantidis
Mike James
Vasilije Micic
Anthony Parker
Sergio Rodriguez
Nando De Colo
Sergio Llull
Ramunas Siskauskas
Vassilis Spanoulis
Nikola Vujcic
Mike Batiste
Bogdan Bogdanovic
Kyle Hines
Juan Carlos Navarro
Theo Papaloukas