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 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 [...]
Five months after breaching his contract with Maccabi Tel Aviv claiming to have a deal with an NBA team during the lockout, Eurobasket reveals that undrafted Jeremy Pargo, signs his NBA rookie contract with the Memphis Grizzlies. Pargo attended yesterday’s workout in Memphis but didn’t participate because his contract hadn’t been finalized. Today (Saturday) the paper work came to an [...]
Europe welcomes another NBA player to the Continent this afternoon with the long-awaiting signing of Omri Casspi with Maccabi Tel Aviv today reportedly a reality, according to the Cleveland Plains-Dealer. The locked-out Cavalier first expressed frustration with the NBA Players’ Union this weekend and took Israel’s Euroleague club up on its longstanding offer. Writes Tom Reed: “Cavaliers swingman Omri Casspi [...]
Euroleague perennial power Maccabi Tel-Aviv will have at least two NBA players in its lineup this season if the lockout continues to drag now that Israel’s own Omri Casspi has committed to join Jordan Farmar on the team coached by American-born David Blatt. Maccabi, though, has also just lost a player to the NBA, despite the fact that no one [...]
With the summer progressing, Israel’s top organizations are still in search of the perfect quarterback combo guard duo to increase their chances of an upcoming season title. Champions Maccabi Tel Aviv were recently in intensive talks with former NBA guard Bobby Brown, who played last season overseas, splitting his time in Poland and Greece. Despite a 2007 championship year in [...]
With seemingly no end in sight to the NBA lockout situation forthcoming, BallinEurope has to admit to enjoying the schadenfreude of the situation … just a bit. Even more exciting than the day-to-day speculation as more and more players from the big league consider their Continental options are the possibilities for the future: History has shown that inclusion of one [...]
Maccabi Tel Aviv secured the services of Sofoklis Schortsanitis (206-C-85) for one more season. The centre joined the Israeli powerhouse at the start of the previous season. He averaged 12.0 points, 4.2 boards and 1.0 assist per game in Euroleague. In Israeli League Sofoklis Schortsanitis notched 11.8 points and 4.9 boards per appearance. Eurobasket.com named Sofoklis Schortsanitis All-Euroleague Centre of [...]
DURHAM, N.C. – Former Duke All-American and 2010 NCAA Champion Jon Scheyer recently signed a two-year contract to play for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli League. “I am really excited to take the next step in my basketball career and go play for Maccabi Tel Aviv,” said Scheyer. “I am looking forward to the opportunity to play for a [...]
‘Eurobasket.com’ recently learned that, Maccabi and Small Forward David Blu, have seemed to reach a crossroad as their ongoing negotiations of contract terms that began in March, have not produced any results thus far. The American/Israeli talent has already received a number of top Euroleague team offers for next season, and is determined to finish his free agent saga in [...]
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