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Who's ready for EuroBasket 2011?
While the teams for the Eurobasket 2009 final had yet to be determined on Saturday, the first official step on the road to Eurobasket 2011 was taken with the introduction of the logo (though BallinEurope still much prefers the green-and-gold losing bid) and venues for the next biennial tournament. Members of the press were given […]
Division II stud Brandon Brown to Lithuania
A California State University press release from this morning is announcing that UC San Bernardino center Brandon Brown has signed a contract with Lithuanian side KK Šiauliai and thus will not be playing his senior year for the CSUSB Coyotes. Brown transferred from Holmes Community College in Mississippi in 2008 to join the Coyotes with […]
High marks for Lithuania in leadup to EuroBasket 2011
Though Team Lithuania suffered an unexpected and defeat at home in the final game of the FIBA U16 European Championship Men on Sunday, the country at least received some good news from off the court. FIBA Europe President George Vassilakopoulos held a press conference prior to the game along with secretary-general of the Lithuanian state […]
Donatas Motiejunas on FIBA U20 Euros: “I played bullshit here”
Over at heinnews.com runs an interview with Donatas Motiejunas, the center touted as the next international superstar to come out of Lithuania. The site contends that Motiejunas is “projected as the number three pick in the 2010 NBA Draft” in leading an interview that took place during the FIBA U20 Championship Men. When asked about […]
FIBA U20 Championship Men: Hotel buffet-side coverage
Going on this week is the FIBA U20 European Championship Men and hard-working sports reporter David Hein of heinnews is live in Rhodes to cover the action. From the heinnews website, then, comes reportage of basketball action in … the hotel buffet area?
Manic Monday in transactions: Maciulis, Eidson move; Lavrinovic stays
Euroleague officials announced a pair of contract signings to kick off the week today: AJ Milano stole away long-time Zalgiris player Jonas “The Bull” Maciulis from his homeland of Lithuania, inducing him to sign a two-year deal in Italy. On the other hand, Maciulis’ countryman Ksistof Lavrinovic will stay right where he has played for […]
Monday’s cigarettes
It’s playoff time throughout Europe and that’s no reason to slow down our output, but to come up with another Monday morning roundup of the most interesting stuff collected from around the web.
Update on Zalgiris Kaunas
Jonas Miklovas of basketnews.lt has been providing us with great news and insight from Lithuania from the very beginning of BallinEurope. We’re glad that he is providing his information on the current situation of Zagiris Kaunas. As already reported on BallinEurope, Zalgiris Kaunas is going through some rough times at the moment: They’ve lost two […]
Olympics: Spain vs Lithuania and USA vs Argentina LIVE
It is down to the final four nations and looks like the best of both worlds: Spain and Lithuania representing Europe – USA and Argentina representing America. Great, isn’t it? BallinEurope will cover the Spain vs. Lithuania starting 2.pm central European time while the following blogs will live blog Team USA vs. Argentina: (still to […]
Lithuanian invasion in the Bay Area
Lietuvos Rytas, one of the top two Lithuanian teams, will travel to the United States in October to play a friendly against the Golden State Warriors in the NBA preseason.
The token American responds: Be afraid
My main man Tobias is, as we’d say in the ‘States, fighting the good fight this morning with his “US national team announced – are you scared?” Mr. T. engaged in some positive cheerleading for Europe in stating that teams like Lithuania, Spain and Russia need not be scared at all of Team USA. Do […]