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The offical BiE NBA 2009-10 European All-Star Team
As one of the popular highlights of the NBA season, everything about the annual All-Star Game is loaded with pomp, hype and (hopefully) fun. No exception was that moment many a basketball fan awaits with gusto and prepares to heartily attack in argument as the naming of the rosters for the teams that will be […]
Is Dirk Nowitzki really the greatest European NBA player ever?
“When it’s all said and done Dirk will end up being the greatest European basketball player to ever play in the NBA, if he isn’t already.” So ran the tangential line from within a story at Bleacher Report entitled “A New Decade: A New Future.” Though this contention is taken for granted in the U.S., […]
Travis Best lands with Martos Napoli
Whoa, 90s flashback! On Friday, Serie A club Martos Napoli announced the signing of 37-year-old Travis Best, perhaps best known for his play with Larry Bird’s Indiana Pacers, the NBA championship-contending team of 1999-2000. Best was a first-round draft choice of the Pacers in 1995. The point guard stuck with Indiana until 2002, when he […]
Morning Eurohoops News: November 27
Good morning, basketball world! BallinEurope presents its morning briefing with five items for your perusal, including trouble in Cyprus, Noah sailing in for a jam, and the state of Britain’s wheelchair basketball team. Enjoy and, like they say in the ‘States, thank the gods, it’s Friday! • FIBA and Eurobasket.com in international incident? As attempts […]
Trip to America moves Jan Vesely closer to NBA
When Partizan Belgrade takes on the Midwest All-Stars this weekend, more than the Serbian community and fans curious about European ball will be attending. In fact, scouts from at least five NBA teams – the Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers, Detroit Pistons, Indiana Pacers and Milwaukee Bucks – will be in attendance, primarily to get a […]
Quickies: Suton closer to Jazz, Arroyo maybe with Bulls
The Utah Jazz took one step forward in adding Goran Suton, former Team Bosnia & Herzegovina/Michigan State University member, to the squad on Friday; the Jazz closed out their week announcing the front office had “completed the required tender to retain [Suton’s] rights.” Suton parlayed a second-team All-Big Ten season of 10.1 points and 8.2 […]
Dream Team Europe: The coaches
With an extended roster of 19 all-time players waiting in the wings, Ball in Europe today releases the names of the Dream Team Europe coaching staff. To manage this elite squad, we’ll limit Dream Team Europe to four coaches in spite of reader Simas’ excellent (if unwieldy) solution reckoning that “if you have a coaching […]
Galil/Gilboa gets ex-Zag Jeremy Pargo
An interesting, if slightly obscure, signing was reported this week by Hapoel Gilboa/Galil Elyon, as the Israeli club penned Gonzaga alumnus and Jannero’s little bro Jeremy to a one-year deal. In his senior year at Gonzaga, Pargo put together a crazy season of 10.2 points, 4.9 assists and 3.4 rebounds per game for 2008-09. In […]
Coming to America: Euroleague American Tour 2009 games set
Euroleague and NBA officials today announced the dates and teams for this year’s Euroleague American Tour and damn if these matchups aren’t fascinating enough to make you wish the games were for real… The four preseason games will see Olympiacos Piraeus facing off against the San Antonio Spurs (October 9) and Cleveland Cavaliers (October 12); […]
Noah with France for Eurobasket AQRs? Oui et non
Supporters of Team France are still holding their collective breath, as their national team yesterday officially announced that oui, Joakim Noah is still practicing with the team in preparation for EuroBasket, but non, no word had been given by Noah’s Bulls on whether the NBA team would allow Noah to play in the EuroBasket additional […]
NBA Jam Van cruises through Germany, onward
That large brick-resembling motor vehicle you see rolling through Germany on the way to all parts Western European isn’t any normal van: Rather, it’s something EA Sports and consumer electronics specialists Hannspree like to call the NBA Jam Van, on its second (presumably) annual trip ‘round the Continent to spread the good word of roundball.
Why Americans should watch Euroleague Final Four
Many observers and participants are already calling the 2009 Final Four in Berlin in early May the best ever. While that remains to be seen, one thing that is certain is that the affair in the German capital is anything but just another European party. And American basketball fans will have plenty of reasons to […]