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Thoughts and Trade Machine tinkering: Can the Lakers trade Pau Gasol?
As Los Angeles Lakers fandom giddily awaits the possible debut of Mike D’Antoni on the bench tonight and the emergence of the superteam most observers expected, the inevitable whispers are beginning: Yes, Pau Gasol appears to be on some imaginary trading blocks (and perhaps even the actual one) already. As BallinEurope understands it, the thinking […]
NBA players to Europe: Pekovic, Seraphin, Parker, Boozer, more
Nikola Pekovic will be back in Europe to play with Partizan Belgrade as the NBA lockout drags on, just the latest of names from the big league to be jumping to The Continent for 2011-12. BallinEurope takes a brief look, bullet-style, at the progress of some other players coming over below. An even briefer summary: […]
Official BallinEurope Euroleague Power Rankings: Final preseason edition
The 2010-11 Euroleague season tips off tomorrow? Right, then. Presenting the last preseason – and thus last totally subjective, because we’ll be able to base these things on, you know, wins and losses beginning next week – BallinEurope Official Euroleague Power Rankings™. (Plus lots of video clips.) Enjoy! 1. (↔) FC Barcelona – Yeah, as […]
Big Z boomeranging back to Cavaliers
Just a quick note on former Cleveland Cavalier/sitting-in-limbo Zydrunas Ilgauskas from the big network. ESPN reported last night that, despite interest from the Denver Nuggets and Dallas Mavericks in Z, the big man plans and expects to re-sign with the Cavs. Ilgauskas must wait until March 22, due to a NBA-mandated 30-day wait period required […]
Ruminations on ex-Cavalier Ilgauskas (Come to Europe, Z…)
Did you know that Zydrunas Ilgauskas is the Cleveland Cavaliers’ all-time leader in games played, minutes played, blocked shots, offensive rebounds, and total rebounds? Or that the sportswriting team at the Cleveland Plain-Dealer just this month named him the fifth-best player in Cavaliers history? Maybe, maybe not: After all, for most of his 12 seasons […]