FIBA General Secretary Andreas Zagklis hinted that FIBA and the EuroLeague are heading towards a better future. For the last few years, the relationship between the two sides was far from perfect. After FIBA introduced the qualifying windows for the national teams, these windows clashed with the EuroLeague calendar. Therefore, the best players from Europe couldn't help their national teams or had to take extreme measures to play for their respectable clubs and countries.