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Betting on basketball: Utah Jazz-Real Madrid lines, odds
How many times do you suppose Real Madrid will be a 10-point underdog this season…? Of all the exhibition games going on in courts around the planet right now, few are more compelling than tonight’s Real Madrid-Utah Jazz NBA Europe Live tour game; still, it’s a bit surprising to see BallinEurope.com sponsor Bet365 post odds […]
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 […]
Euroleague Final Four Preview: CSKA Moscow
CSKA Moscow was the team I covered since before the season, so I have to go with it again now that the Final Four is approaching. Ettore Messina has once again put together a team that can win the supreme title, but this season, the task of winning the cup looks a bit more challenging […]
Monday’s cigarettes
Yes, it’s finally Final Four week again. European basketball fans have waited a full year to get these feelings back again. And to start the week, well, here we go for some nice stories from around the globe.
Yarone's Playoff joints (Round 1)
After a long rest due to Interpol checking into the legality of the Joints published on BIE, the most tiring piece of text on this blog is back, and no better timing than the quarterfinals. With all due respect to the handball match that went on in Moscow, the Game 1 joints will focus on […]
Yarone's Weekend Joints – Part II
The last pack of Joints before the big break presents you with the stories behind the games in Barcelona and Roma, with a short stop in Athens and a final visit to Kaunas. Puff it up! Mirza Bryant? An NBA glitch for a minute. The most memorable game from Kobe’s rookie season was the last […]
Monday's Cigarettes
After a short version last Monday, we are back now with a full force of tasty, smoky cigarettes. “At the end of the day, it is here where I am doing what I always expected, what I was supposed to do when I was young, before the injury: to be a leader of one of […]
And you thought the Navarro deal was big…
How about David Andersen joining Juan Carlos Navarro on FC Barcelona, while CSKA signs Terrence Morris? No, this isn’t the daily rumors section: It’s official, as you can see here and here. Where does this leave Barcelona and CSKA Moscow? Right: As number one contenders for next year’s Euroleague Final Four. I am already excited […]
Duke graduate Trajan Langdon stays in Moscow
As the official CSKA Basketball web site tells us, CSKA guard Trajan Langdon has signed a new ‘2+1’ contract with CSKA, meaning that Langdon will stay in the club until at least the 2009/10 season. I guess I’ll get another chance to show Trajan my “DUKE SUCKS” shirt … Besides Langdon, Matjaz Smodis also signed […]
European basketball: "something between college basketball and NBA"
Now what do you think of this definition for European basketball? Thanks to this post on Ettore Messina’s blog, we know what the “Godfather of European Basketball” thinks. Remember this article was written in February 2007, so maybe his thinking has changed since Russia won the European Championship and the NBA Europe Live tour showed […]