Today, if all goes well, another round of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine is set to begin.
And if they also give birth to an agreement in the next two weeks, the Russian teams in the Euroleague - CSKA Moscow, Zenit St. Petersburg and Kazan - may return to play in a special bubble outside Russia.
A senior Euroleague official claims that in such a case, the Russian teams will have to play every day or two, in order to complete their games by about April 12.
Zenit has 11 games to complete by the end of the season, CSKA 10 and Kazan nine.
But the Euroleague is pessimistic about the return of the Russians this season, even if a ceasefire agreement is signed this week.
Some teams have already announced that they will not play against them anywhere on the globe (Zalgiris and more), and it is even difficult to see how the Russian teams will soon return to them the foreigners who fled.
CSKA has already parted ways with Daniel Hackett. German Johannes Fuigtman is a candidate to join Anadolu (only for Turkish league games). Will Claiborne is having a battle between Real Madrid and Barcelona, and other foreigners like Joel Bolomboy are also outside Russia and it is highly doubtful that they will return.
Kazan sued Jarl Barentelli for 250,000 euros after running away from the club, and together with Zenit she is trying to continue her training routine and her VTB league games.
Also, in such a case it is not clear how Locomotive Cuban will be able to return to play in the EuroCup.
Well, in light of the situation today in the Euroleague will decide which method to end the season as soon as the Russian teams are officially removed from the factory.
The 15 groups were asked to express their opinion and decide between one of the following options: delete the results of the Russians or the percentage method.
So far, the method of canceling the results of the Russian games has met with opposition.
"It is impossible to punish the teams that beat CSKA, Zenit and Kazan on the field, let alone create distortions, for example Bayern who jumps from 11th to 6th place and Monaco and Fenerbahce in danger of being relegated from the playoffs."
In the percentage method, the proposal is to continue the season as usual without the Russians, and the position of the 15 teams in the table will be determined by the success rates.
According to this method, Maccabi Tel Aviv is currently ninth with a balance of 13:12 (48 percent success). Meaning: The Yellows are out of the playoffs, but with the same success rates as Fener (7th place) and Bayern Munich (8).
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