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The ACB point guard of the year is … c'mon, like you don't know
Yet another anticlimactic accolade has been bestowed upon Ricky Rubio for the 2009-10 season, as Spain’s ACB League yesterday officially crowned The Human YouTube Clip/defending back-to-back FIBA Europe Young Player of the Year as Point Guard of the Year. It’s the second such nod for Rubio, who also received the award for the 2007-08 season […]
Roll the tape! Highlight clips from the 2009-10 Euroleague championship, third-place game
Okay, folks, for those of you who missed the excellent show put on by FC Barcelona in distancing itself from the second-best team in Europe in 2009-10, Olympiacos, here’s the official highlight clip from last night’s Euroleague championship. (A clip of the best moments from the CSKA Moscow-Partizan Belgrade consolation game also included.) Enjoy all […]
Barcelona takes Euroleague title, 86-68
It’s official: FC Barcelona is the no. 1 team in Euroleague 2009-10. Powered by Final Four MVP Juan Carlos Navarro’s 21 points and playing ranking of 23 plus some swell defense again from Pete Mickael (who got BallinEurope’s vote for Final Four MVP), Barcelona controlled the game throughout and Olympiacos was unable to ever close […]
Live chat tonight: Euroleague third-place game, championship
Follow the Euroleague’s final games of 2009-10 here at BallinEurope.com tonight (or today, for those of you in the ‘States; tomorrow for Australians i suppose). Click on the “Continue Reading…” link below to open up the chat box. We’ll start taking comments at about 5.30pm CET (11.30am EST). The consolation game between Partizan Belgrade and […]
Euroleague championship trivia
From the Le Sais-Tu Department comes a few interesting news bites on this evening’s Euroleague Championship participants. Read on, triviamongers!
All-Euroleague first team highlights
Who can get enough highlight clips? Certainly not BallinEurope, even if disagreeing with one or two of the selections made by the Euroleague folks this year. Below the break runs three-and-a-half minutes of awesome action from yourrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 2009-10 All-Euroleague team, namely Olympiacos’ Euroleague MVP award-winner Milos Teodosic and Linas Kleiza; FC Barcelona’s Juan Carlos Navarro; […]
Top 10 reasons why BallinEurope loves the Barcelona-Olympiacos final
How thrilled is BallinEurope to see tonight’s Barcelona-Olympiacos final? Let us count the ways… 10. Both teams earned the trip with tough semifinal wins. Against CSKA Moscow, Barcelona played smart while deploying Europe’s best defense in 2009-10 against a much bigger Red Army team; Olympiacos truly gave everything in overcoming plucky Partizan Belgrade. The result: […]
Olympiacos vs. the flu, part II: Teodosic questionable for Euroleague final [UPDATED]
With one game left to play in its Euroleague season, Olympiacos has only to face the same old enemy that has dogged their exceptional 2009-10 season. No, BiE’s not talking about Barcelona here or even home-country rivals Panathinaikos, but rather a flu bug. Olympiacos coach Panagiotis Giannakis stated on Saturday that, “After the game with […]
“We are here to work”: Opening up the post-Euroleague semifinal quotebook
Since last night’s games ended, it’s been a blur of press conferences and meetings for us here in the press section at the Euroleague Final Four … so here’s another round of wit ‘n’ wisdom from the men guiding and playing the games. On winning “Yesterday, we played beyond our limits. My players gave everything. […]
Must-see YouTubes: Highlights from the Euroleague Final Four semifinals
While BallinEurope attempts to awaken after one intense basketball evening, we present a compedium of clips from the games last night. Those of us on press row last evening, as the Olympiacos-Partizan game went into overtime were of a single-minded opinion. To wit: “Those folks in the ‘States don’t know what they’re missing.” In that […]
Live blogging tonight's Euroleague Final Four games
BallinEurope will be live blogging tonight’s Final Four games from Paris, so please join in the fun! The chat will start up at about 5.30pm CET (that’s 11.30am EST just in case anyone on the other side is interested) and tipoff for the first game, CSKA Moscow vs. FC Barcelona (o boy o boy, that’ll […]
“This is the Final Four”: The Euroleague quotebook going into the semifinals
A quick collection of quotes for you, collected yesterday and today at various press conferences and media meetings. With just hours to go before tipoff, enjoy a bit of wit and wisdom from coaches and players on BallinEurope. On Paris “It is […] special to have the Final Four in Paris. This is the city […]