05-17-2003, 04:30 PM
well that's because, basketball is very popular in most of the european countries except in great britain. Let's put it this way, for example in yugoslavia, most football clubs have it's basketball clubs as well, same thing is with handball, volleyball and other team sports. Financially they are not connected, but they all have the same fans, which are "delije" in this case. u might havenotices that FC Barcelona (basketball club) recently became the champs of europe.. i hope i explained something