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Paris-Levallois: yet another new beginning
Paris, the city of love is the hometown of a basketball team. Yes, maybe you did not know but the team is the merger of Paris Basket Racing and Levallois, two professional teams that played in the French ProA for several seasons.
Monday cigarettes
The Russian giant Gazprom is actually planning to build a European Hockey league to compete the NHL. Is something similar also possible one day in the basketball area? Who knows… Marcus Slaughter explains his view about being cut by Hapoel Jerusalem. As we reported that he has been with an escort lady during the trip […]
Bergeaud says "au revoir"
The French NT coach Claude Bergeaud officially announced yesterday that he will step back from the head coach position. After the disappointing 8th place and the non-qualification for the Olympics, the French NT needed some change.
The other Benetton
Benetton Treviso is a household name in the European Basketball scene, but did you know that there is another team called Benetton that is actually rocking the European scene? And the biggest surprise is that the team is coming from Switzerland.
Buzzer beater of the week
SSV ratiopharm ULM just had an incredible win this weekend in the German Bundesliga. With a few seconds left and ball for the opponents of EWE Baskets Oldenburg, they managed to win the game however. Check the Video (#18) of the incredible mid-court shot from Emeka Erege here and see what I would call a […]
German champs have problems for the future
Two German teams face bigger logistical or even existential problems in a near future. And I don’t speak about some kind of low level teams but I talk about two former German Champions: Bayer Leverkusen and Cologne.
Are 0.2 seconds enough for a catch-and-shoot?
After the records night yesterday in the ULEB Cup we talked already about, Belgian newspapers revealed today that the win of Crvena Zvedza in Oostende may have a juridical overtime.
WHAT A GAME… and the night of new records
Unfortunately, I have not been in the arena but what happened yesterday in Berlin must have been one of the great European Basketball nights.
No Boykins but Jordan for Lietuvos Rytas
Today, we got the news that it is now sure that Earl Boykins won’t join Lietuvos Rytas in replacement of Darrell Mitchel. However, the Lithuanian Euroleague team signed another PG to help them for the upcoming months.
Jeremiah Massey Macedonian?
Today, we got the news from Greece that Jeremiah Massey will get a Macedonian passport. This will help Aris to sign another US born player in the upcoming days.
ULEB Cup live: Spirou Charleroi – Akasvayu Girona
This is the live blog from Charleroi Spiroudome about the ULEB Cup game between Spirou and Akasvayu. To follow the game, just read more.
Monday cigarettes
Theo Papaloukas STARTED the game of the Russian Superleague this weekend against Unics Kazan. Maybe he finally was doing well in practice that his coach gave him the starting job or it was only because of the absence of Ramunas Siskauskas. Harun “Pegasus” Erdenay is back on the courts Jon Stefansson, one of my favorite […]