This maybe off topic, however, FC Barcelona and right now the worlds undoubtedly best soccer player has received a jersey from the L.A. Lakers. The NBA has the power to do anything and of course market off of FC Barcelona fans based in L.A. which is a great number.

The Lakers will be playing a pre-season game against FC Barcelona club on October 7th, however, Messi won’t be around due to obligations and games with his National Team Argentina.

Fiba Europe has announced the participating teams for Fiba European Club Competitions for the 2009/10 season before the draw next week July 8th.

Six teams from Spain will participate in the following:

Euroleague Regular Season

• Real Madrid (Spain)
• Regal FC Barcelona (Spain)
• Tau Ceramica (Spain)
• Unicaja (Spain)

Eurocup Qualifying Round

• DKV Joventut (Spain)
• CB Gran Canaria (Spain)

Explanation of the leagues

The Euroleague Regular Season will feature 24 teams.

22 teams will qualify directly to Euroleague with the remaining two teams earning their way into Europe’s top competition by way of an eight team, two round, qualifying campaign.

The Eurocup Regular Season will feature 32 teams.

The six teams who fail to qualify for the Euroleague will remain in Eurocup, joining 18 teams who qualify directly and eight teams who will qualify via the 16 team Eurocup Qualifying Round to be administered by FIBA Europe.
The eight teams from the Eurocup Qualifying Round who do not move on to the Eurocup will join the 24 teams already qualified for EuroChallenge.

For the second year a row, DKV Joventut claims the champion of hte National Catalana ACB Trophy San Miguel 2008. In the final against Regal FC Barcelona 95-83. On the womens side, Sant Adrià won its third consecutive pre-season Catalana title against Aragon Girona.

Stats: DKV Joventut vs Regal FC Barcelona

There were 2,000 spectactors at the game during the finals in Casares, Spain.

Gruesa GBC 81 Tenerife Rural 76

Box Score

BRUESA GBC, 81: Uriz (10), Panko (11), López (16), Doblas (17) y Hopkins (9) –starters- Arco (-), Arteaga (-), Schraeder (6), Brown (2) y Andrade (10).

TENERIFE RURAL, 76: González (8), Sánchez (3), Barbour (13), Lewis (7), Lampropoulos (4) –starters- Sánchez Jiménez (13), Llompart (7), Guaita (17) y Rodríguez (-).

The men’s Copa Principe 2008 will be held in Zaragoza January 25-26. Tickets will be sold starting January 14th through January 21st. There will be packages available to view the entire tournament.The prices will range from 20 to 45 euros and sold at CAI

Some games will be televised live at FEBtv.com.

The top eight teams in the LEB will start playoffs very soon. During the last week many teams struggled to maintain their position during the regular season. Here is the list of the teams that will be fighting for a championship.

Starting on May 3rd and 5th, the playoffs will be played and live streaming online. Depending on where you live, here is 8:45.

Winterthur Barcelona Stuns The 76ers

Barcelona produced a definite win over the NBA’s team the 76ers yesterday 104-99. Barcelona had great shooting from the outside especially the 3-pointers. NBA Europe is a great campaign that has been introduced this year and it was a great match up.

David Stern was in attendance at the basketball game in Barcelona with over 16,236 spectators. NBA Europe Live feature several top NBA teams that tour in Europe.

Also last night, the Spurs defeated Lyon in France.

Below are the statistics from the Barcelona vs Sixers:

Winterthur Barcelona, 104 (29+22+23+30): Lakovic (17), Navarro (18), De la Fuente (2), Vázquez (15), Marconato (10) -cinco inicial- Kasun (4), Basile (17), Ukic (5), Kakioucis (15), Grimau (1) y Trias (-).

Philadelfia 76ers, 96 (30+21+22+26): Iverson (13), Green (6), Iguolada (13), Webber (19), Dalembert (21) -cinco inicial- Korver (13), Randolph (2), Hunter (2), Carney (4), McFarlin (6), Jones (-) y Ollie (-).