After a month missed in the regular season the lockout finally came to end. Team owners and players came to an agreement. The most probable date of start of season is 25 December. It is great to hear that we can watch world superstars again on the courts but it has some bad effects for European basketball. When nba was locked out many great players such as Danilo Gallinari, Derron Williams, Jordan Farmar, Thabo Sefolosha went to European teams and changed the game level in Europe but almost all of them had a contract saying that they will return to USA when lockout ends. So European teams will lose power as European basketball.
Turkey is one of the countries that its clubs are victims of lockout. Turkish teams had a great rising in the Euroleague by help of their players from NBA. Now Derron Williams and Semih Erden from Beşiktaş Milangaz, Zaza Pachulia from Galatasaray Medical Park, Thabo Sefolosha from Fenerbahçe Ülker, Ersan İlyasova from Anadolu Efes and Mehmet Okur from Türk Telekom will go back to NBA. Beşiktaş Milangaz also signed contract with the star forward of Los Angeles Lakers, Lamar Odom but just one day after the contract was signed the lockout ended. I can say that the most powerful impact of the ending of lockout is on Beşiktaş Milangaz.
Derron Williams thanked Beşiktaş club and their fans and said these words ''Guess ill be going home soon LockoutOver! My time in Istanbul with Besiktas was amazing thanks for everything!''. It is amazing to hear such words from a superstar but it has no doubts that Beşiktaş Milangaz will falter without Williams in the league. I can say that Anadolu Efes won't be bad as Beşiktaş because they will only lose Ersan Ilyasova but his backup is ready in the team, Duško Savanović. He is also a great player but he couldn't show his best performance yet in Turkey. May be it will be chance for him to gain some self confidence and dominate the league. As conclusion I can say that NBA lockout has finished but Turkish Basketball League's knock out has started.
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