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Best of the (basketball) net: Food-and-retro edition
For your edification and amusement, Ball in Europe presents seven stories, interviews, blog entries and whatnot definitively worth a little of your time on a Sunday. Read on, compliments of us and a bunch of hard-working writers out there. The Los Angeles Times was intrigued enough by the blogging activities of Coleman Collins – he […]
Best of the (basketball) net: On the individual tip edition
Sure, everybody’s busy these days, but there’s always quality time for web surfing, right? Right! Below run a few of the stories and videos perused at the BallinEurope.com home office in Budapest this week — mostly themed on Euroball’s outstanding individuals. Enjoy! The official blog of the Portland Trail Blazers takes a look at Nicolas […]
Great Britain's Finch leaves Belgium for Texas
Chris Finch, the mastermind behind the development of Team Great Britain in preparation for the 2012 Olympic Games, has scored himself a new job in America. Finch will be departing Dexia Mons-Hainaut for the Rio Grande Valley (Texas) Vipers, his former club announced yesterday. The Vipers are the NBA Development League team affiliated with the […]
Eurobasket 2009 preview capsules, part one
While counting down the days ’til Eurobasket 2009 tips off, BallinEurope.com will take a brief look at the field of 16 teams in brief. Enough said — onto today’s capsules! Bulgaria Group: D In brief: The word is “plucky.” With Team Bulgaria’s one bonafide superstar, Ibrahim Jaaber, out, all the pluck in the world won’t […]
World Cup of Basketball (really?) now underway
The Efes Pilsen’s 2009 “World Cup of Basketball” may be a bit of a misnomer for the international friendly tournament that tipped off last night in Turkey, but this show is certainly professionally done – really top marks for the organizers here – and well worth checking out. The World Cup field is comprised of […]
Best of the (basketball) net: The More-than-Jeremy Tyler edition
What was on the mass mind of the interweb this week with regard to basketball this week? Glad you asked! Surfing for seven days resulted in the following finds well worth your time. Within a week of Jeremy Tyler hype and analysis, how about an actual interview with the lad himself? The Maccabi Haifa official […]
Unicaja’s center combo named to Team Great Britain for Eurobasket 2009
Unicaja fans will find something more than a little familiar with Team Great Britain’s big guys in Eurobasket 2009, as both Robert Archibald and the just-acquired Joel Freeland were officially named to the national squad this week. The announcement follows in the wake of Luol Deng’s announcement that he would be taking August off to […]
Doomed Britannia? Deng will not play in Eurobasket 2009
Bad news for fledging Team Great Britain’s Eurobasket 2009 chances: Luol Deng joins former Chicago Bulls teammate Ben Gordon in the “out” category. Deciding that his stress fracture injury has not yet properly healed, Deng decided to sit this one out. Gordon decided as early as last August that he wouldn’t be joining the makeshift […]