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Come on, Kobe!
Not much Euroleague in this post at all – sorry! Not even anything negative to say about any European player on the Lakers. Well – in the first half of game 4 you had to like what Mr. Radmanovic did: hitting threes.
The NBA Finals game 3
So I made it to Los Angeles. After a long! cab ride to the Staples Center, I picked up my media credentials and went into the arena at about 2:30 .. and never left it until about 10.30 local time. Yes, I spent seven hours in a basketball gym. And it was worth it!
An open letter to European Basketball
I’m writing you today on behalf of the Los Angeles Lakers. I have no official capacity with the club, but after watching three games of the NBA Finals, you can’t help but feel sorry for guys like Phil Jackson, Sasha Vujcic, Kobe Bryant and especially Jack Nicholson, who’s about one more fourth-quarter comeback away from […]
BallinEurope goes to Hollywood
BIEGTH – RELAX don’t do it! Everybody knows this hit from the 80s. We’re not from the UK and the UK is not part of the European Union but well – BallinEurope goes to Hollywood, too! Thanks to FIBA (yes, you Nic!) and the NBA (Rachel Walsh) I will fly to Los Angeles and watch […]
Adande on the Euro Lakers
Now i don’t like to give free advertising to that all too well-known Worldwide Leader in [American] Sports, a.k.a. ESPN, but Euroball fans must check out J.A. Adande’s piece entitled Euro Lakers two wins from NBA Finals. At the beginning of this season (in those already now seemingly long-ago days of the just pre-Gasol Era), […]
General questions about international and European basketball
Over the last few weeks, we’ve received a few interesting questions from Luke T. Johnson of the China Daily and we decided to make them open to the public. Here you go: 1. How have international teams from Europe and South America managed to close the gap on the US? I am a huge European […]
One thing you didn't know about Marco Belinelli
Well, maybe it’s a few things you didn’t know about Marco, but just one that I noticed on the official Golden State Warriors blog (via ESPN’s TrueHoop). I thought I knew a lot about Marco but I still happened to learn some more today reading an excellent article on Italy-based Gazzetta dello Sport website (Italian […]