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By George Orfanakis/ info@eurohoops.net
Which teams have created the longest streak of titles in the history of European basketball? Eurohoops pulled out the golden bible of the biggest championships on the continent and showcases the biggest “orange” empires.
Most championships are drawing to a close and the end of the year finds some teams celebrating and others troubled. As the years go by, what lingers in the minds of fans and to a large extent determines the magnitude of a team on the basketball map, are the titles.
At times there were teams that emerged in European basketball that won one title after the other, creating unbelievable streaks within their borders. Maccabi who… forgot to lose, CSKA of the three empires, the Serbian battle between Crvena Zvezda and Partizan, Real of the 10 consecutive championships and Zeljko Obradovic’s Panathinaikos, are only some of those cases. On the occasion of Patizan losing the title and coming to the end of a huge streak, Eurohoops found and presents to you the biggest powerhouses that ever existed in Europe.
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9 championships (1976-1984)
In the Soviet Union the big boss was CSKA and their streak of 9 championships (1976-1984) proves that in the best possible way. The leader of this great accomplishment was the late great Alexander Gomelsky (photo) who was the team’s coach from 1969 to 1980. Important players of this period were Evgeny Kovalenko and Anatoly Myshkin, while the streak was completed with Sergei Belov and Yuri Selikov as coaches for CSKA.
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9 championships (1991-1999)
The greatest team ever to come out of Lithuanian basketball had a monopoly on domestic titles, winning 9 consecutive championships in the 90s. Zalgiris, with a blend of excellent Lithuanian and foreign players, created a team that had no competition domestically, while at the same time they were reaching the top of Europe in 1999, completing a golden decade. The main opponent of the team from Kaunas at the time was Atletas, a team that nevertheless could not win a championship on the 4 occasions when they challenged Zalgiris in the finals.
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