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Eurobasket third place game preview: Germany vs Poland
The bronze medal game of EuroBasket 2022 opens play on Sunday as hosts Germany and Cinderella side Poland face off to decide third place All games from now on are at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin, Germany When? Sunday 18 September 17.15 CEST, 16.15 BST, 11.15 EST, 08.15 PST How they got here Germany (6-2) […]
Rudy Gobert manhandles Poland as France make the EuroBasket 2022 final
Rudy Gobert was always going to be a force in this game but the sheer ease with which he dominated Poland was shocking to all watching as the Minnesota Timberwolves man barely broke a sweat in a controlled performance to reach the final of EuroBasket 2022. Emmet Ryan was in Berlin to watch the three […]
Triple double from Ponitka fires Poland past Slovenia
Poland recovered from an epic collapse thanks to the heroics of Mateusz Ponitka and AJ Slaughter to stun Luka Doncic and defending champions Slovenia and reach the semi finals in historic fashion. Slovenia started this game with the bold strategy of opting not to play any D. It made things rather entertaining but was visibly […]
Video clips: Championships, cheerleaders, Carroll crushes, Barcelona loses (again)
Happy Monday, everyone. To get that week started right, BallinEurope has compiled a healthy-sized video play list at which you may goggle over morning coffee. From all corners of Europe (and Portland, Oregon) came the action last week as the barrage of title-awarding begins on The Continent. • First up: BiE offers congratulations to Žalgiris […]
USA 92, World 80 at Nike Hoop Summit; Rivers, Biyombo star
Unfortunately, there wasn’t much for European hoops fans to cheer about at the 2011 Nike Hoop Summit (BallinEurope can’t believe he got up at 4am for the near-drubbing), though the world has now been formally introduced to Anthony “Son of Doc” Rivers and Bismack Biyombo. Team USA won 92-80, though this score belies the fact […]
Nike Hoop Summit: Nine named to World Select Team (but not Enes Kanter)
Rosters for the 2011 Nike Hoop Summit have been released and while The Continent is well-represented on the World Select Team, BallinEurope considers there to be at least one shocking omission. Team World will include Davis Bertans (Latvia/Union Olimpija); Evan Fournier (France/Poitiers); Przemyslaw Karnowski (Poland/SMS PZKosz); Mateusz Ponitka (Poland/Tempcold AZS); and Dario Saric (Croatia/KK Zagreb). […]
Vesely named FIBA Europe young player of 2010
[Editor’s note: BallinEurope apologizes for a previous edition of this piece which incorrectly identified Jan Vesely as having rights owned by the Oklahoma City Thunder. This was a grievous error of which you surely need not know details. Rest assured that the infinite number of monkeys formerly ravaging the BiE headquarters are now under control […]
Basketball Without Borders Europe wrap: Bits, bites and highlights
The NBA’s Basketball Without Borders has wrapped its European edition for 2010, the first-ever such camp in Spain. On-hand to represent the NBA were The Gasol Brothers, Rudy Fernández, Vladimir Radmanovic, Serge Ibaka, Marcus Camby, Jason Terry, Chicago Bulls assistant coach Ron Adams and Indiana Pacers assistant coach Dick Harter. After three days of drilling […]
Poland can't stop Team USA scoring machine in FIBA U17 Worlds; Bradley Beal takes tourney MVP
Congratulations from BallinEurope go out today to that other national team who won a world championship yesterday, namely Team USA at the first-ever FIBA U17 World Championship. The Americans were once again a scoring machine against Poland in the championship game, simply mercilessly outgunning their opponents in the 111-80 win. Every player on the USA […]
Catching up with FIBA U17 Worlds, U20 European Championship
After getting caught up in a week’s worth of hitting the refresh button for news ‘n’ rumors about big-money men on both sides of the Atlantic jumping teams, BallinEurope today takes a brief look at a pair of FIBA youth basketball championships going on in Europe: the FIBA U17 World Championship and the FIBA U20 […]