China – Montenegro U20 83:55 China posted the first win at the Sino-European Challenge Event tournament in Kunshan. The hosts coasted past Montenegrin U20 National Team. Zhu FangYu (201-F-83) scored 12 points to lead the hosts. China led by just four points at the first break 21:17. They stretched the margin to 9 points at halftime 41:32. The hosts continued [...]
Over at Kosarka.si, Erazem Lorbek, Slovenia’s most sought-after basketball player on the free-agent market cleared the air a bit vis-à-vis Spain-based reports that he’d already reached an agreement with the San Antonio Spurs for the 2012-13 season. Lorbek stated that he’d heard the reportage from Spain that he’d signed a deal to play in the NBA, characterizing it as “false [...]
An entire generation has entered basketball since his untimely passing and while ever-growing numbers of NBA and European stars who have never seen him play emerge, all owe a debt to Dražen Petrović. It was on this day in 1993 that the only man who realistically could have held claim to the sobriquet of “the European Michael Jordan” was killed [...]
As chosen by online voting, here are the Russian PBL’s top 10 plays of 2011-12. In case you’re wondering, yes, CSKA Moscow is all over this thing with a couple of alley-oops involving Andrey Vorontsevich and a ridiculously effortless longer-than-halfcourt pass from Milos Teodosic to Andrei Kirilenko. Via (BallinEurope)
Today’s edition of France-based L’Equipe has a brief bit on Les Bleus/Valencia guard Nando de Colo with regard to his immediate future. De Colo was selected by the San Antonio Spurs at no. 53 overall in the 2009 draft and, now that the Valencia BC season has ended at the hands of FC Barcelona, the man they call “Aladdin” awaits [...]
Let’s put this into perspective. The last time Olympiacos took the Greek national title, they were led by David Rivers and Dragan Tarlać. Vassilis Spanoulis was 15 years old and not near professional club play. Dejan Bodiroga was in the middle of his career and Mirsad Turkcan had just turned 21. Across the pond, Lebron James was 13; Phil Jackson, [...]
This just in. The Euroleague has announced prospective licensing for the 2012-13 season; a few surprises in here, at least as far as BallinEurope is concerned… A-license teams include: Anadolu Efes Istanbul Asseco Prokom Gdynia Caja Laboral Baskonia CSKA Moscow FC Barcelona Regal Fenerbahce Ulker Istanbul Lottomatica Roma Maccabi Tel Aviv Montepaschi Siena Olympiacos Panathinaikos Real Madrid Unicaja Malaga Zalgiris [...]
With the recent announcement that the 2011-12 champions won’t in fact be seeking a second go-around in the Adriatic League and hard economic realities facing many Serbian and Croatian clubs, BallinEurope contributor Marko Savkovic today asks the hard question about one of Europe’s most prestigious associations. Something is always up in the Adriatic League. After Maccabi Tel Aviv informed the [...]
The folks in charge of the British national hoops team aren’t very happy with the Chicago Bulls, citing alleged attempts to convince forward Luol Deng to sit out the Olympic Games this summer in London. Reports the Chicago Tribune: “The seemingly annual dance to secure Luol Deng’s insurance for international competition took a mildly confrontational turn on Saturday. Chris Spice, [...]
Olympiacos shrugged off both history and the Dimitris Diamantidis-Mike Batiste duo last night in taking game three of the Greek League championship series over rivals Panathinaikos, 84-72. With a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five series, the Reds are poised to take its first domestic league title since 1997; historians will of course note that ’97 marked Olympiacos’ last Euroleague championship [...]
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