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In return to Cleveland Cavaliers, Big Z gets W, standing O
Absence does make the heart grow fonder, it seems. After being away from the NBA team he’d called home since entering the league in 1997 for six due to some financial manipulation by the Cleveland Cavaliers and Washington Wizards, Zydrunas Ilgauskas returned to the floor for the Cavs. On “Kid’s Night” at “Quicken Loans Arena,” […]
Zydrunas saga update: Z. wants ring, wants it with Cleveland
The latest chapter in the Ilgauskas-back-to-Cleveland is a short one, best summarized in a single emphatic line from agent Herb Rudoy and run in Associated Press stories: “It is Zydrunas’ desire to return to the Cavaliers if a suitable contract can be agreed upon.”
Eurocentric highlights from last night’s NBA action
With 22 NBA teams going at it last night across the ‘States, the official website has a serious compendium of clips collected this morning. Several favorites from The Continent are featured and BiE has compiled this run of videos with which you can kill a good ten minutes of your morning this morning, easily. • […]
State of the nations: European basketball organizations today
While not interested in passing definitive judgment, we think it would be useful and fair to take a look at the European basketball panorama. There will be no ratings or rankings here, just a snapshot of what the most important ballin’ countries offer us. Ten years into the third millennium, it’s common to hear repeated […]
Stateside, LeBrown, Dwight, Sir Charles sneak into Super Bowl broadcast
Last night across the Atlantic, most sports fans in the ‘States were tuned into that little game of American football known as the Super Bowl (presumably after watching the EuroRaptors and Orlando Magic take care of business in the afternoon, that is). For years, mucho hype has surrounded the mystique of the commercials shown during […]
Best of the (basketball) net: Salinger, supplements, Shirley and Sixers girls edition
Quite the busy week in basketball land this week, eh? Even if you did follow the slew of happenings over this seven days – the opening weeks of Euroleague and Eurocup Final 16 play, the naming of NBA All-Star teams, FC Barcelona’s streak ending in the ACB, the Greg Oden and Paul Shirley scandals, as […]
Being Danilo Gallinari (in the NBA)
We all know the NBA needs specialists, and that this is a request asked particularly of non-American players who haven’t the status in the ‘States to claim balls and minutes while they’re newly arrived from Europe. Then, by fighting for minutes against and using smarts beyond the US players, young European players soon present more […]
Review: "The Book of Basketball" by Bill Simmons
The only good thing about getting a nasty flu? Easy: Lots of time for reading monster tomes like Bill Simmons’ “The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy”. Thanks to a sentinel from the legion of The 2009 Killer Viruses, i was able to knock down all 697 pages of this thing […]
Best of the (basketball) net: Short-but-Sweet edition
Though we only have a few hits from the cybersphere this weekend, most of them are quite substantial and well worth a bit of your time on Sunday. Happy reading, everyone! Awesome, with a capital *AWESOME* is heinnews’ interview with Oscar Robertson, actually undertaken during the Eurobasket 2009 on the eve of the Big O’s […]
Olympiacos shows something, gets posterized often against Cavs
Well, Olympiacos may not have put up too much of a fight against the Cleveland Cavaliers last night in a 111-94 defeat while Baby Shaq lost the individual battle against Daddy Shaq, but together the teams made one heck of a highlight clip. That O’Neal-James combination already looks pretty OK, n’est-ce pas? (Video below the […]
Best of the (basketball) net: Double-sized two-week edition
Right. Because this column did not appear last weekend due to the tsunami of Eurobasket 2009 games, this week’s Best of The (Basketball) Net includes good stuff still enjoyable and written that long, long, 14 days ago in some cases. Enjoy! The most discussed basketball event of the off-season – besides Dude Perfect and The […]
Thanks to Spain and USA for a great basketball game
So the Redeem Team won the gold medal in Beijing. What in the end looked like no surprise must actually be considered a deserved win by the best team of the tournament: Nothing more and nothing less. The final game showed that the gap between the USA and the rest of the world is not […]