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Adam McCoy: The Blake Griffin of Europe
Here’s to hoping BiE can create something viral here … anything to help one of the great untold individual stories of European basketball. Currently playing his trade in Slovakia, longtime Dallas area resident/former North Texas Mean Greener Adam McCoy is not only statistically crushing the domestic league there, he’s also seemingly in possession the same […]
Just because: 100 more of the greatest dunks of all-time
So what else are you going to do today while waiting for, say, Panellinios vs. Panathinaikos (tipoff time 5pm CET/11am EST) or Lugan Aro vs. Barcelona (tipoff time 6pm CET/noon EST)? Sounds to BiE like YouTube time. Here’s the latest of the “Top 100 Dunks of All-Time” breed. Though it’s skewed heavily toward the showman-type […]
The 20 best (Eurocentric) dunks of 2010
Retrospective time comes again to BallinEurope! But hey, who doesn’t like an excuse to watch a bunch of air-raising slam dunks? Following are 20 of the best dunks pulled off in Europe, by Europeans or on Europeans; whether historically significant or not, all have one thing in common: That awesomeness inherent only in a proper […]
Marquez Haynes, dunksmith of France
Days later and the internet is still loaded with chatter about Blake Griffin’s monster dunks perpetuated against the New York Knicks this weekend (okay, so they were pretty badass buckets), but rookie Marquez Haynes of Chalon/Saône may be making himself a name as the dunksmith of France with some insane hops in evidence lately. Haynes, […]
Timofey Mozgov = Fred Weis; Blake Griffin = awesome
Since this thing has got everyone from ESPN ‘heads to DJ Steve Porter talking, sure, BiE’ll repost: From the epic (not) New York Knicks-Los Angeles Clippers game last night, Timofey Mozgov becomes Fred Weis 2.0 as Blake Griffin totally goes Vinsanity on his lane-clogging butt. How do you say “d’oh!” in Russian? For good measure, […]
Official 2010 BallinEurope mock draft, version 3.0: The first 15
Though not quite completely settled yet, most devotees have a pretty good idea of the pool for this year’s suddenly distinctly non-European flavored 2010 NBA Draft. BallinEurope’s man in the U.K., Sam Chadwick, revisits the official BallinEurope NBA Mock Draft once again with updated prognostications for the first 15 choices in round one. 1. Washington […]
L.A. ain't the Answer, A.I.: Come to Europe!
I’ve been waiting to talk trash to my NBA-supremacist friends ever since the announcement in April of an imminent deal between free agent Allen Iverson and Olympiacos: Ha! That’s what you get for trying to make a Hall of Fame stud sit on the bench for some second-rank team in the ‘States! Think Europe’s top […]
Rubio "Ready to realize dream," declares for NBA
Spanish teenage sensation Ricky Rubio has issued a statement that he is ready to make the leap to the NBA, saying it’s his goal to enter the NBA for the 2009-10 season. “The hope and responsibility not to disappoint has given me the will to continue to work and I believe that I am ready […]