Cibona Zagreb 100
Groupings announced, Euroleague 2009-10 tips off (sorta)
The Euroleague 2009-10 season has begun! This morning, the Euroleague announced the groupings for the ten-game competition this autumn. Naturally, the pools are totally enticing and some great fodder for watercooler discussions for months. (Heck, they’ll have to be.) The groups look like this:
Euroleague, Eurocup, EuroChallenge participants announced
To torment and tease those of us – and by “those of us” here, i mean “every Euroball fan” – who can’t wait for the Euroleague, Eurocup, and FIBA EuroChallenge championship draws set for Wednesday at 1pm CET, FIBA Europe and Euroleague yesterday released the names of the participating clubs in the three competitions.
Attendance Figures for European Competitions (Euroleague)
Here we go for the spectator figures for the best and most popular competition in Europe, the Euroleague. After the FIBA EuroChallenge and the EuroCup, BallinEurope.com checked what are the averages of the toughest European competition.
Monday’s cigarettes
Monday morning, it’s time for the cigarettes that light up your week, one that will mark the start of the Euroleague quarterfinals. Former UConn Husky and German Bundesliga center Souleyman Wane is now working as French teacher at Haverhill High School and still plays in the faculty basketball team. Taquan Dean hits 10 three pointers. […]
Monday's cigarettes
Happy new Year! After a short Christmas break, BallinEurope is now back with the freshest and sexiest stories on basketball in Europe. And what’s better than starting the new year than a yummy bunch of cigarettes?
Yarone's Weekend Joints – Part I
Week 8 of the Euroleague presented some unusual numbers in the Zalgiris-Prokom game, a junior big guys battle in Athens, a Turkish delight thanks to veterans and a big tie in the Le Mans battle. Part I will present all that before Part II, in which the games in Barcelona and Roma take center stage. […]
Tips from the Euroleague boss: Week 6
Hi everyone, this is once again Javier Gancedo, as always from the Euroleague Basketball headquarters at Palau Sant Jordi. Well, not always, since it is my day off today, and I’m at home chilling out in Barcelona. First of all, the fact that I know nothing about basketball kills me. I come up with The […]
American newcomers: Who’s hot, who’s not
Early in the season, it’s difficult to judge the US newcomers you have choose; anybody wants to give them a final chance becoming acclimated to other ways of life and play, to never-seen or -known teammates, to different expectations on them. But now that winter has come, it’s time to say something about these players. […]
Tips from the Euroleague boss: Week 5
Hello everybody, once again this is Javier Gancedo, as always from Euroleague.net. What a Euroleague week it was, friends! First-time winners Union Olimpija and AJ Milano, the best Real Madrid show of the season, an impossible end to that Partizan-CSKA showdown, TWO overtime thrillers in Zagreb and Le Mans and above all, an instant classic […]
What's wrong with Americans in Europe?
Dario from basketbalcentral.it just sent me an email on Rawle Marshall, who plays for Cibona and also in the Euroleague. Rawle got into a fight in a domestic league game against Split. These fights of Americans have happened very often in recent weeks. I had to check immediately if Rawle is also from Arizona, as […]
Monday's cigarettes
Here we go for a new week with Euroleague action. But today, we have a very special women’s cigarette for you… …because Sylvia Fowles came up with a breakaway dunk in the Euroleague game between Spartak Moscow and Schio. KK Split and Cibona Zagreb met this weekend in the Adriatic League. And the least we […]
Euroleague: Cibona Zagreb, Croatia
To give you the preview on Cibona Zagreb, there was only one address we could ask. Not because there is nobody else but Karlo Dzeverlija is considered as the main reference about Croatian basketball. He is the author of kosarka.hr (crobasket.com) and also the editor in chief of Basketball magazine “Croatian basketball”. Overall record prediction: […]