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Podcast: Featuring interviews with FIBA U19 World stars Exum, Okafor, Micic, Krestinin, Milunitov
Episode #43 of the BallinEurope/heinnews co-produced “Taking the Charge” podcast series is now available online or via iTunes. In this week’s edition of the ‘cast we put the proverbial bow on a notable FIBA U19 World Championship with a half-dozen interviews (they’re brief, we swear) that Mr. Hein recorded amid writing up the Prague games […]
From the free-for-all: Last week’s top five Euroleague acquisitions (plus one from the NBA)
Has it really been almost two months since the Euroleague Final Four? And when did the seasons in Spain, Greece, Italy and the NBA finish up? Time gets exceedingly relative and outright bendy once offseason transactioneering begins as memories of the previous year are quickly disposed for a look to the next and the money […]
Just because: A look at some mock 2014 NBA Drafts (a.k.a. Way too early Saric-, Hezonja-watching)
From Fox Sports via the syndication wire, BallinEurope’ll put this one up here for the sheer audacity of it. Below runs exactly what the BiE headline advertises: The sports network’s admittedly “way too early” 2014 mock NBA draft. And though it is indeed way too early to be thinking about June 2014, BiE’s already looking […]
Podcast: Talking FIBA U19 Worlds, NBA Draft class with former Team Iran/Poland coach Veselin Matic, Draft Express’ Jonathan Givony
Episode #40 of the BallinEurope/heinnews co-produced “Taking the Charge” podcast series is now available online or via iTunes. This week, the accent is on the game’s future stars. With Hein over there in Prague covering the FIBA U19 World Championship tournament and today seeing the final matches played, we talking about the happenings at that […]
Europeans in 2013 NBA Draft: Consensus, Best-Case Scenarios, Official Fearless Predictions™ on our Top 10
NBA Draft Day 2013 is upon us and while US-based media mostly grouses about the lack of high-quality players this time ‘round, European basketball fans have much to look forward to one year after a first round passed with no Continental player selected. In the 2013 edition, a dozen or so European ballers are reasonably […]
Kobe says Dirk best non-US player ever; BallinEurope respectfully disagrees
No disrespect to Dirk Nowitzki and what he’s accomplished in his 15 NBA seasons and international play, but BallinEurope felt obliged to respond to a 141-character length injustice this afternoon. Said Kobe Bryant, via FIBA: Kobe Bryant: "Dirk Nowitzki is the best foreign player of all time, period." http://t.co/Se1KtDyZcC @kobebryant @swish41 — FIBA Europe (@FIBAEurope) […]
Euroleague American Tour 2013: CSKA Moscow scheduled for Minnesota, San Antonio visits
The Red Army is coming to the US as part of the always fun and interesting Euroleague American Tour 2013: Euroleague and NBA officials today announced that in October, CSKA Moscow’ll be taking on a couple of teams with nice Continental/ international ties in the Minnesota Timberwolves and San Antonio Spurs. No word yet on […]
Indoctrinating the youth into basketball fandom: Boston Celtics backer shows how it's done
This one is billed over at the fantastic Live Leak as a “parenting funny fail”, but this father of three sees absolutely no problem here. Well, excepting that the daddy in question appears to be a Boston Celtics fan…
Eurobasket 2013: Which NBA players are in, which are out?
Because it’s never too early to start looking ahead to Eurobasket 2013 – wait a minute, there’s only 11 weeks left until tipoff? Definitely not too early, then, to take a look at the formative rosters for the big Continental tournament. While only a few national teams (Croatia and Lithuania among them) have released preliminary […]
Team Latvia tops USA All-Stars in China (no, really)
BallinEurope’s friends over at Net Scouts Basketball are involved in an interesting tournament currently going on in China. Net Scouts brings their “USA All-Star Men’s Team” to the big country to compete in the Four Nations Tournament, consisting of nine games in two weeks against the home country’s national team, Team Latvia and the Canada […]
Podcast: Interviewing NBA Draft prospect Dario Saric, San Antonio Spurs writer Matthew Tynan; also Forgetting Paris
Episode #38 of the BallinEurope/heinnews co-produced “Taking the Charge” podcast series is now available online or via iTunes. Hein and yours truly zip through a roundup of rolling-on European league tournaments, including brief commentary on what’s happening in the VTB United League, Germany, Turkey, and those French playoffs guaranteed to be giving Jordi Bertomeu nightmares […]
NBA site spotlights Marcin Gortat’s days with Anaheim Arsenal
Friday saw the NBA official website launch a new feature on its pages devoted to the D League. The new “D-League Alumni Spotlight” page currently sports six highlight videos featuring current-day NBA players who came into the big league the hard way. BallinEurope was pleased to see the Phoenix Suns’ Marcin Gortat among the half-dozen. […]