Euroleague Basketball has reached an agreement with 3Cat, the new public audiovisual platform of Catalonia, that will exclusively bring all of Joventut Badalona's BKT EuroCup games to the Spanish territory in the 2023-24 season. The digital platform Esport3cat will broadcast Joventut games until the official launch of the new transmedia and interactive OTT platform 3Cat, which will broadcast all Joventut Badalona games to the Spanish territory. Fans in Catalonia will also have the chance to watch select Joventut games on the dedicated free-to-air sports linear channel Esport3.
The 2023-24 edition of the BKT EuroCup has implemented significant changes to the competition format that will bring more drama than ever before, with the top six teams making the playoffs. The top two seeds in each regular-season group advance directly to the quarterfinals, while the other eight teams battle it out in the eighthfinals. After a single-game elimination format in the eighthfinals and quarterfinals, the playoff series will be played in a best-of-three format in the semifinals and finals.
Joventut Badalona, the EuroLeague champion in 1993-94 and EuroCup winner in 2007-08, has been placed in Group A ahead of the 18-game regular season. The other teams in Joventut Badalona's group are: Besiktas Emlakjet Istanbul, Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana, Hapoel Shlomo Tel Aviv, the London Lions, Paris Basketball, Prometey Slobozhanske, Umana Reyer Venice, Veolia Towers Hamburg and Wolves Vilnius.
Esport3 will begin its broadcasts with the Round 1 showdown between Joventut Badalona and Besiktas Emlakjet Istanbul, which will be played at Palau Olimpic de Badalona on Wednesday, October 4 and will have extensive coverage of the entire BKT EuroCup competition.