The North European Basketball League was founded by a player inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in what year?
North European Basketball League The North European Basketball League, or Northern European Basketball League (NEBL), was a short-lived basketball league founded in 1998 by Šarūnas Marčiulionis. The league was the first commercial project of regional league in Europe, and initially intended for participation of the best basketball teams from five countries - Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden and Finland.
Noah Klieger Noah Kliger (Hebrew: נח קליגר‎ ‎ ; born 1926, Strasbourg, France) is an Israeli journalist and sports administrator. Klieger, a Holocaust survivor at concentration camps Auschwitz and Ravensbruck, covered trials of Nazi criminals after the end of World War II, and later worked as a sports journalist in Israel. He also was the president of the basketball club Maccabi Tel Aviv and chairman of the FIBA's media council. In 2010 he was awarded FIBA Order of Merit, and in 2012 became a Chevalier of the Legion d'honneur. In 2015, Noah Klieger was inducted into FIBA Hall of Fame as a contributor.