The Corona has almost completely shut down European basketball - and from the beginning of July the entire stage of the Israeli league

• Hapoel Holon opposite Hapoel Jerusalem. The Israeli League will receive exclusivity

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About 50 European leagues started the 2019/2020 season, but after the recent gates of the Greece, France and Adriatic leagues, there are only three leagues left to finish the current season: the German league that returns already on Saturday, after which the Spanish league and the June 20 is our league too.

In all three of these leagues they will play without a crowd, but now it turns out that the Israeli Premier League will end the season differently than the other two thanks to four things. In Germany and Spain the season will only end part of the league teams - 10 out of 17 in Germany and 12 out of 18 in Spain - while the Israeli league will be the only one in which all 12 league teams will play. The other two leagues completely changed the format. They will be played using a season-ending tournament method in one city, and no results will be achieved until the league breaks due to the Corona epidemic. The Israeli league, on the other hand, is the only one to continue from where it left off, and the only changes will be the division of the third round to the top and bottom and shortening the playoff quarterfinals to better than three in the best of five.

The duration of the league is also different. In Israel, they will play the longest time, almost a month and a half, while in Spain they will play two weeks and in Germany three weeks. And the fourth and final difference is the places to host the games. In Germany they will only play in Munich, in Spain only in Valencia and in Israel each team will host at home Ulma. And another thing: in Spain and Germany, the league will be decided by the end of June, which will leave the Israeli league as a unit active in July, and you need to know how to leverage.