National Leagues 372
Yarone's Friday's joints
Sofoklis Schortsianitis (Olympiacos) – No shot attempts at all and only one foul in 7:42 minutes. Only once before has Schortsianitis finished a Euroleague game without a single shot attempt and that was when he played only two minutes. Milos Teodosic (Olympiacos) – How often did you get to see this Serbian scorer finish with […]
Euroleague: Panathinaikos Athens, Greece
Drazen93 and scire10 first sound like some PlayStation3 nick name, but over the years we found out that basketball people in Greece give themselves nick names. I maybe should ask one day what the reason for this is. Drazen and Scire have provided us with a great preview last season and do it again this […]
Euroleague: ALBA Berlin, Germany
Simon Jatsch, who wrote this excellent piece about the German league a few days ago, is probably the best expert we could get to describe the Euroleague situation in Berlin. He takes a look on the best German team of last season that is playing one of the most modern arenas in Europe – the […]
Fantasy Basketball: Get ready for SuperManager
This weekend the Spanish ACB starts, and so it’s time to get your ACB.com SuperManager team ready. I will also be present this year in the most popular fantasy basketball game in Europe but, as I am not that much into the ACB, my team won’t be super. Possessing a lot of knowledge about a […]
The Italian league explained
Though this ranking will probably be jumbled in eight months, let’s take a look at the teams in the Italian league. A preliminary remark: this season will see one of the most balanced championships of the past five years, with almost every team improving its situation and not merely to beat the invincible Montepaschi. Serie […]
Fantasy Basketball: France is ready, too
After we presented a German Bundesliga Fantasy League and created the BallinEurope.com division three weeks ago, today French website basketnews.net launched its own French ProA and ProB Fantasy League. Here is the way if you want to participate even if there is no possibility to create a private division. First of all, you have to […]
The Greek league explained
A great tradition that brings waves of young prospects to the scene every year; the smallest, disagreeable, noisiest arenas in Europe; the fieriest fans a player could desire; economic powers in Panathinaikos and Olympiacos. This is Greek basketball: This is Esake. What can we expect from the upcoming season? Simply another battle between the Greens […]
Monday's cigarettes
There we go: We know now all the Eurobasket 2009 participants except one, and the Euroleague tipoff is only one month away. So France and Italy have to go through an additional qualifying round next summer in order to qualify for Eurobasket 2009. In the tournament, they will face Bosnia-Herzegovina, Portugal, Finland and Belgium. Czech […]
Kirilenko back to Russia?
Krepsinis.net lets us know about the possible offer from big-time club CSKA Moscow to get Krilenko back to Russia. These are the facts: Kirilenko has not yet signed with the Utah Jazz, at least as far as the public knows. Since there are no other facts, besides the great strength Kirilenko brings with him to […]
Fantasy Basketball: European seasons about to begin
Before the upcoming Euroleague Fantasy League, we’ll take a look at the different national fantasy leagues set up around the continent. The biggest is, of course, the Spanish SuperManager for the ACB; we’ll come back to this later. Today, we’re going to introduce you to the German Bundesliga Fantasy League organized in collaboration with FIVE […]
Domestic league preview: Italy
Virtus Bologna’s agreement with Earl Boykins is only the latest sign: It is now clear that the Italian League is ready to return to its past and glorious times of the 1990s when Bologna was called “Basket City” and the whole movement was at the top in Europe. Serie A is on the rise again, […]
Olympic Qualifying Tournament 2008: Day 1
With about 24 hours until the Olympic Qualifying Tournament starts, let’s have a look at the teams and the chances for each team to make it to the big goal: the Olympics in Beijing.