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Fantasy tips from the Euroleague boss: Final 16, week two
Hello everybody, this is once again Javier Gancedo, as always from Euroleague Basketball. Well, it was not a bad fantasy week for my team, Meet The Boss. I scored 166.2 points, moved up into the Top 600 overall, was the best team this week in the BallinEurope Invitational Challenge private league and now rank fifth […]
The Euroleague Boss on fantasy: Final 16, week one
Due to an unfortunate series of tragic events, the deadline for this week’s fantasy tips column was missed. However, in the interests of satisfying The Euroleague Boss’ fans, were running this column with half the Final 16 week one games in the books; it’s valuable to see what Meet The Boss did, even if you […]
The Frank Euroleague roundup, week five
Once again, BallinEurope.com contributor Francesco Cappelletti weighs in on all the happenings in Europe’s top basketball league in week five of play in ruminating on just how good FC Barcelona is; on CSKA Moscow’s resurrection due to coach Pashutin and possibly the “heart of a champion”; and on a flashback to one year ago. The […]
Nate Robinson to Olympiacos: The deal that won’t happen (but which will?)
A few sites, including our friends at TalkBasket.net, are reporting the collapse of preliminary discussions between the New York Knicks’ Nate Robinson and Olympiacos Piraeus. Olympiacos offered Robinson a two-year deal worth $9 million or $10 million, depending on which source you believe.
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.
Yarone's Playoff joints (Round 1)
After a long rest due to Interpol checking into the legality of the Joints published on BIE, the most tiring piece of text on this blog is back, and no better timing than the quarterfinals. With all due respect to the handball match that went on in Moscow, the Game 1 joints will focus on […]
My Euroleague Playoff Tuesday
The Euroleague playoffs began this Tuesday and despite having practice during the evening, I tried to blog my playoff night as it happened. So the evening started in Moscow, of course, with the playoff opener in a tournament that is finally played in best-of-five mode.
Final tips from the Euroleague fantasy boss!
Hello NIKEiD Fantasy Challenge players all over Europe! Once again, this is Javier Gancedo, as always from Euroleague Basketball headquarters. Well, the 2008-09 NIKEiD Fantasy Challenge comes to an end this week. It has been a fantastic season for the game, I think. I guess I’ll have to do a recap next week: In fact, […]
Tips from the Euroleague boss
Hello everybody at BallinEurope, this is once again Javier Gancedo, all the way from Euroleague headquarters in Barcelona. This has been arguably the best Top 16 since I joined the company in 2003. I have great memories of my first Top 16 as an insider (Sharp’s three-pointer against Zalgiris, Basile’s triple against Efes followed by […]
Tips from the Euroleague Fantasy Boss: Top 16 Week 2
Hello all at BallinEurope, once again this is Javier Gancedo, as always from Euroleague Basketball. If you don’t know by now, my team Meet The Boss was the first-ranked, number one OVERALL in the NIKEiD Fantasy Challenge last week. Needless to say I am very proud about this, beating dozens of thousands of basketball fans […]
Tips from the Boss: Top 16 Week 1
A little bit too late to adjust your teams, but here we go for Javi’s article about the Euroleague Fantasy Challenge. Hello everybody, this is Javier Gancedo, as always from Euroleague Basketball. Well, the Top 16 is about to start with big games all over the continent. The NIKEiD Fantasy Challenge took a break, too, […]
Tips from the Euroleague boss: Week 7
Hello everybody, once again this is Javier Gancedo, as always from Euroleague Basketball in the last NIKEiD Fantasy Challenge blog of 2008. Looking back at the Euroleague year, it has been a fantastic one. The Final Four in Madrid was terrific; the competition system changed and it is safe to say it was an improvement; […]