Apparently everything is fine.
The last basketball season was good and fascinating, and it seems that the teams are building good and attractive rosters for the next season.
In addition, more than half of the teams participate in the European events and the reserve team shows that there are talents to build on.
So that's it, the situation is really not good.
Under the surface the business is in danger and it is not really clear how the league will open.
All because of the control struggles between the union and the administration.
We are close to the start of training, in September the Winner Cup is supposed to take place and Hapoel Haifa will already start the European season.
Although the business is approaching, we still do not know who is the manager of the league, how many teams there will be (a great injustice to Maccabi RG), it is not known what the allowances will be for the teams, it is not known who is broadcasting and there is no game schedule.
Everything is in the fog.
The purpose of this column is not to decide who is more to blame, nor to discuss the roots of the conflict.
I'm just sure that absolute justice is not in anyone's pocket.
What is important is the lack of clarity that threatens the upcoming season.
This is already the responsibility of both parties.
The fault lies with those who think they are more interesting than the game itself.
The problem of those who think that politics is being played here and not the game that we love so much, when the main victims are of course the consumers, i.e. the fans.
Waiting for the start of the season, photo: Alan Shiver
Who will contact and ask what I want?
And he says that the other side is guilty, I will answer him that it really doesn't matter who is guilty.
What is interesting is the industry, the league, the players and above all the fans.
And above all - that this business is going in bad directions.
Tell me friends (from both sides), do you really think that you are the fan who counts the minutes until the start of the league and is interested in whether the management is with the union or the administration?
Understand, this whole struggle is really foreign to them and to many others who just like to watch Israeli basketball and the Israeli league.
In other words: control struggles of all kinds that will not be done on the backs of the league and the fans.
The details of the conflict really don't matter.
The reason: things don't seem so acute to me that good will, renouncing ego and less politics won't solve them.
The quote from the Supreme Court today (Wednesday) says it all: "Instead of wasting endless time in the courts, (the parties AS) will find a way to settle the dispute by agreement."
We will use a sentence based on the saying we heard here during the Corona days: no basketball - not interesting.
were we wrong
We will fix it!
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