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The BallinEurope Sunday playoff quadruple-header (plus Fearless Predictions)
All right, on this last World Cup-free weekend for the foreseeable future, who’s up for a little basketball? No, make that a lot of basketball. A barrage of basketball, if you will. Get ready to clear the schedule, stock up the liquid refreshment and blow off the familial obligations for the hoops marathon we like […]
Tibor Pleiss: “One year of Euroleague, then the NBA Draft”
Another European player has announced his intention to enter the NBA Draft … the 2011 NBA Draft, that is. Team Germany/Brose Baskets Bamberg big man Tibor Pleiss, the 2009-10 Bundesliga Rookie of the Year, recently informed German press that he’d like to play one more year in Europe before seeking to fulfill his dream in […]
No. 5 seed Brose Baskets tops NY Phantoms, advances to Bundesliga finals
In the topsy-turvy world of the Bundesliga playoffs, the one-eyed man – i mean, no. 5 seed Brose Baskets Bamberg – is king after this weekend’s semifinal victory over New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig, 94-82 to sweep the no. 8 team out of the playoffs. In a tournament which saw all four teams atop the table […]
American Streetballers now available in Europe; ‘Stateside DVD release in August
The independent production team behind Sundance Film Festival “darling” American Streetballers (née Streetballers) has had a good May. On the 1st of the month, the rechristened movie was released by Warner Brothers Digital in North America, thereby exposing this Sundance film to over 50 million households. Better yet for European purposes, American Streetballers is also […]
Weekend video wrap: El Classico, Nike Hoop Summit, EL Women final, BBL Cup
For The Continent, quite a bit of important basketball action went down this weekend. In the ‘States, the best of Team USA faced off against the world in the Nike Hoop Summit game; in Spain, arguably the two best women’s teams on the planet meet for the FIBA Euroleague Women final; the German domestic league […]
Beko BBL Cup Top Four: When, where to watch
The Bundesliga’s Beko BBL Cup Top Four tournament goes down this weekend with four games in two days. The tournament would appear to be a bit of a misnomer at final glance, since none of Germany’s current top three teams (ALBA Berlin, EWE Baskets Oldenburg, Telecom Baskets Bonn) will play; in actuality, three of the […]
Beko BBL Cup quarterfinal pairings set
One country that did not hold a national cup tournament last weekend was Germany; thanks to a Sunday draw, however, we now know the pairings for the upcoming Beko Basketball League Cup semifinals. Based on the draw held in Frankfurt, quarterfinal pairings will feature Brose Baskets Bamberg vs. BG Göttingen and Deutsche Bank Skyliners vs. […]
Movie review: Streetballers
Amidst the NBA All-Star weekend festivities starting up tonight in Dallas, the independently-produced film Streetballers continues its distribution through America with a VIP celebrity/NBA charity screening and fundraiser. Set to host festivities is the Los Angeles Lakers’ Josh Powell, certainly the movie’s biggest fan (that’s his “best basketball film ever made” remark on promo material); […]
European Cups about to start
This week will start the (once again) newly-created qualification rounds for the two European Cups just under the Euroleague: the EuroCup and the EuroChallenge. Here we go with the preview on these qualification rounds. Let’s start with the EuroChallenge, formerly known as the FIBA Europe Cup. Qualifying round one again features teams that I’d never […]
Bundesliga Transfers Table 2008/2009
Euroleague Transfers – France Transfers – Spain Transfers (acb.com) – Turkey Transfers GERMAN BUNDESLIGA TRANSFERS Updated: 9/10/2008 18h11CET NB: Please note that names in bold are confirmed transfers. Others listed are rumors published by various media or online discussion forums. The Budget figures are either officially announced numbers or estimations related in the Media. Arrivals […]