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BallinEurope needs your help
BallinEurope is up for two awards and we are really up against it for the public vote, that’s why we are calling on BiE readers around the world to answer the call BiE has been nominated twice in the Blog Awards Ireland. We are up for Best Innovation and Best Lifestyle and we are so […]
EuroBasket Group Winners: Fan Predictions
While most of the basketball fans are probably rooting for their national team to win the upcoming EuroBasket – even if it’s very unlikely – it’s a different story in the group stage. The 24 teams are divided in 4 groups, so naturally, there are four times as many opinions on the favourites. TonyBet took […]
What Sportsbooks Are Saying About the 2015 NBA Draft
The 2015 NBA Draft is shaping up to be a “big” draft in the most literal sense. According to DraftExpress.com, one of the leading sites for all things NBA draft, as many as four seven-footers are projected to be off the board within the first handful of picks. Karl-Anthony Towns, Jahlil Okafor and Willie Cauley-Stein […]
Basketball makes its way into Atlantic City
Sports and gambling have always been something of a controversial marriage. While for some, mixing the two genres casts a shadow of something sinister over good old fashioned competition, for others, it provides an additional element of excitement that makes finals such as the NBA even more appealing. Traditionally, we would see the link between […]
Underrated draft picks
Pic by EdRost88 As we edge closer to this year’s draft, general managers around the NBA are putting together their final plans for which players they feel will have a positive impact on their team. While much of the focus in this draft will be on whether players can step straight into the league, there […]
NBA MVP race too tight to call
One of the many fascinating aspects of the 2014-15 NBA season has been the ascension of a number of stars to the league’s true upper echelons. Cornering a market LeBron James has cast quite a shadow over the NBA MVP race in recent years, winning four of the last six awards. The only other players […]
Lesser spotted buzzer beaters: Half court shot wins a championship
Time was running out in the Irish Colleges Division 1 final. IT Carlow and NUI Galway were all square at 72-72 and overtime loomed until Jimmy Ward said OH HELL NO and unleashed this monster from the halfway line to take the title for Carlow. Check it out. UPDATE: Now in HD via The Courtside […]
Sportando launches a new basketball management game
Our buddies over at Sportando have launched a new basketball management simulator and it’s free. We checked in with their editor, Emiliano Carchia, to ask him all about the project. BallinEurope: Why did Sportando decide to produce this game? How long did it take? Emiliano Carchia: We decided to launch the video game after we […]
Basket geek Mark Deeks needs your help for charity
Mark Deeks, arguably the geekiest man in basketball (and I say this as someone who has met Simon Jatsch), is doing something pretty nuts for Red Nose Day. Starting at 9pm UK time on Friday night, Deeks and two other guys will try to score 100,027 points in a game of darts over the course […]
A quick look at prospect Jordan Blount
Jordan Blount is the hottest prospect to come out of Ireland in quite a long time. The 6’7″ shooting guard is part of Canarias Basketball Academy and CBA just posted some highlights of the young man in action. h/t Sam Meyerkopf Anyone can look good on a mixtape but what jumps out for Blount here […]
BiE goes to the ball
Last Friday night it was our time to rep BiE Nation and all the Basketbloggers around the world as BallinEurope was up for best blog at the Digital Media Awards. Watch what happened: Thanks to everyone who supported us in our run to the final.
The curious case of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Mycroft Holmes
One is the NBA’s all time leading scorer, the other is the brother of one of the best known fictional characters in history. Emmet Ryan examines the literary challenge facing Kareem Abdul—Jabbar’s plan to write a novel based on Mycroft Holmes. Forget, if you can, the 6 NBA titles as a player along with 2 […]