If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much is a YouTube clip worth? Even at tenfold the still image, the figure probably still wouldn’t be high enough for the Tolstoyesque level of descriptive prose necessary to capture the insanity that was the final, say, 12 minutes of the 2012 Euroleague championship final between 17/1 underdogs Olympiacos and heavily-favored [...]
And this week … the Euroleague Final Four! To get things started, BallinEurope presents a roundup of highlight clips from the seasons-that-were of CSKA Moscow, FC Barcelona, Panathinaikos and Olympiacos. (Wow, BiE wonders every time upon looking at that list just how the big league could have ended up with a more scintillating Final Four: You’ve got undisputed powerhouses in [...]
FINAL Unics – CSKA 62-74 CSKA celebrated the second VTB League title in their history. They overcame Unics in the Final tonight in Vilnius to repeat the success of 2009/10 season. Darjus Lavrinovic scored 15 points to pace the effort. Andrei Kirilenko (205-F-81) was named the MVP of Final Four. CSKA opened the game with eight points in a row. [...]
The Regular Season in PBL just ended. The game between third ranked Triumph Lyubertsy (12-6) and seventh ranked Spartak-Prim. (8-10) was the most important one in the last round on Sunday night. Triumph Lyubertsy was crushed by Spartak-Prim. in Vladivostok 105-59. It ended at the same time the five-game winning streak of Triumph Lyubertsy. The game without a history. Spartak-Prim. [...]
After a season of watching him block shots left and right, clean up on the defensive glass and invade passing lanes for steals, Turkish Airlines Euroleague head coaches have made CSKA Moscow forward Andrei Kirilenko (205-F-81) this season’s Best Defender Trophy winner! Kirilenko, who turned 31 during the season, made life difficult for any opposing player trying to score this [...]
The 2011-12 Euroleague Final Four field is now filled, as Panathinaikos’ cliffhanger of an 86-85 win against Maccabi Tel Aviv last night sets up a May date with the monsters of CSKA Moscow in Istanbul. (And now, a slight bit of horn-tooting. Note a few Official BallinEurope Fearless Predictions™ made good, i.e. Dimitris Diamantidis as player of the game and [...]
Regular readers of JUMPSHOT may recall a similarly entitled writeup on Montepaschi Siena on these pages from a long time ago – actually two weeks, but already it *feels* like quite a spell. Contributing writer Enrico Cellini was as surprised as any of us when Olympiacos began Siena’s ejection from the tournament, Facebook-messaging BiE with the note that “Siena is [...]
As confirmed by the club, CSKA Moscow forward Viktor Khryapa (204-F/G-82) will be out for approximately one month, due to a dislocation on his index finger. Khryapa is expected to be back in March, which means that he will miss the rest of the Top 16. Khryapa has been one of the main pillars of the great CSKA performance this [...]
Forward Andrei Kirilenko will stay with CSKA Moscow until the end of the season, it has been confirmed. Kirilenko will join up with his CSKA Moscow team-mates on January 3rd, after failing to agree terms with the NBA teams that he and his party have spoken to. This news will certainly make other Euroleague teams stand-up and take notice even [...]
Andrei Kirilenko (205-F-81) will be sidelined for the remainder of 2011 due to a shoulder injury. His team CSKA Moscow announced this news on Monday. Kirilenko injured his left shoulder after crashing to the floor while attempting a steal in a Russian League game a week ago. Andrei Kirilenko appeared 5 times so far in Euroleague averaging 13.8 points, 9 [...]
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