NBA Summer League 17
The biggest events of the 2022 offseason – so far
NCAA college basketball finishes with an absolute bang with March Madness every year and the NBA finals close out the professional season only a few months later. This means that from March through June every year, basketball fans are treated to some of the best action of the season at both the college and professional […]
Mario Hezonja was sent here to wreck you
The NBA Summer League got a brutal introduction to Mario Hezonja yesterday, even though he had already made one huge game-ending play in his previous outing Playing for the Orlando Magic’s blue team in the NBA Summer League, Croatian sensation Mario Hezonja hasn’t wasted time making an impression. We all knew about his confidence from […]
The BallinEurope Summer League Review: On 14 NBA aspirants from the Continent
While so much attention is paid to the upcoming Olympics and warm-up games, a number of European players have quietly gone about their business in the NBA Summer Leagues in Vegas and Orlando. BallinEurope’s man in the U.K., Sam Chadwick, takes a look at an extended roster’s worth of European ballers’ performances in the Orlando […]
The book on Ryan Richards in NBA Summer League – plus monster dunk
A shout out this morning to Britain-based HoopsFix and “hardworking 6’5” 187 lb. versatile small forward” Peter Grumble for tipping BallinEurope off to a big play from Ryan Richards, currently competing for the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Summer League. For more on Richards, click below the break, but now, the clip.
Ratiopharm Ulm: “We wanted Jeremy Lin two years ago”
How do you say “Linsanity” auf Deutsch? BallinEurope supposes that the vocabulary term isn’t quite so necessary in Germany but, according to officials at one Bundesliga club, the phenomenon just might have been visible in Europe last season. Back in 2010, few observers of the NBA Summer League had an eye on the NBA’s current […]
Europe can wait … or maybe not: An interview with Georgetown alum Austin Freeman
Despite receiving a nomination for the 2011 Big East first team in his senior year, former Georgetown Hoyas guard Austin Freeman went undrafted by the NBA and so flew overseas to play for Libertas Fulgor Forli’, a team based in a small North Italian city and playing in the second-division Legadue. Enrico Cellini met with […]
In midst of monster season, can Sofoklis Schortsanitis get more fans than Nickelback?
BallinEurope posts this in hopes that a zillion more YouTubes like it… In the midst of his career year with Maccabi Tel Aviv, BiE fave Sofoklis Schortsanitis is probably accumulating Israeli fans by the thousands daily. BiE doesn’t have any actual hard numbers on the latter, but as for the former, so sayeth the stats: […]
J.R. Giddens: Main goal not the NBA, but “to be the best person I can”
Over at Real GM, they’re taking a bit of a detour from their NBA focus to present an interview with J.R. Giddens, guard with Asseco Prokom Gdynia and formerly of BiE alma mater University of New Mexico. After an infamous bar fight in which he was stabbed, Giddens transferred from the University of Kansas to […]
Caracter drama: Lakers’ pick draws interest from Italy, Israel, Olympiacos
While Los Angeles Lakers’ second-round draft pick Derrick Caracter impressed in NBA summer league play – even to rank third behind John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins in the NBA.com “Rookie Ladder” – the former UTEP Miner may yet have to wait one more year to play in the big league. No matter, though, as reportedly […]
Saga of Pierre Pierce to continue at Aris BC
BallinEurope recently received an email from the folk(s) over at Greek-language blog site Basketball Aris about the team’s latest acquisition Pierre Pierce, who comes to Greece after a couple of seasons with LNB side Hyeres-Toulon. Though BiE doesn’t get the chance to watch too much LNB ball – and even less of Hyeres-Toulon – i […]
Los Angeles Clippers dither, rumors say Sofoklis to Panathinaikos
After suiting up for the Los Angeles Clippers’ summer league team and getting a lot of flirtatious advances from Clipper management, the NBA outfit has apparently dithered on actually offering Sofoklis Schortsanitis a contract. The team has stated that they are interested in Big Sofo, but would only sign him after the Clippers have finished […]
Sofoklis to return to L.A. for another shot at NBA
BallinEurope favorite Sofoklis Schortsanitis may soon be getting another chance to stick with the Los Angeles Clippers, according to Greece-based Sport Net and fellow ESPN TrueHoop Networker the ClipperBlog. Sofoklis will be heading to Los Angeles “in the next few days” to discuss contract terms. Clippers management is apparently emphatic about putting “Baby Shaq” through […]