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CSKA Moscow once offered a contract in Comic Sans
Tomas Van Den Spiegel has done more in basketball than most but here’s something we never though we’d see for any player. History. pic.twitter.com/gql66eiy2b — T. Van Den Spiegel (@tomasvds) September 16, 2013 See that contract in the corner from CSKA Moscow, with whom Van Den Spiegel won two Euroleague titles, yup it’s in […]
Highlights from Ty Lawson’s epic Twitter venting (P.S. Unicaja over Žalgiris, 85-78)
Has a Europe-based basketball player ever garnered so much attention in one day on Twitter? Those who follow locked-out Denver Nugget/current Žalgiris Kaunas baller Ty Lawson on the ‘site watched for a span of two hours as a complaint about practice snowballed into a barrage of speed tweeting among Lawson, detractors and supporters. The story […]
Fantasy tips from the Euroleague boss, week 7
Hello everybody and greetings from Javier Gancedo at Euroleague headquarters. We are facing a fantastic Euroleague week, with a lot of teams fighting for survival and some others positioning themselves to win their regular-season groups. We have Khimki against Panathinaikos in Group D, but also AJ Milano against EWE Baskets Oldenburg in a make-or-break battle. […]
The Spanish league explained: Part one
The quality of a national league here in Europe is not given by the value of top teams – every league has a number of top teams – but is more appropriately determined by how good the medium-to-low range clubs are. Spain’s are good like no others are: This is why ACB is today the […]
Betting on basketball: Utah Jazz-Real Madrid lines, odds
How many times do you suppose Real Madrid will be a 10-point underdog this season…? Of all the exhibition games going on in courts around the planet right now, few are more compelling than tonight’s Real Madrid-Utah Jazz NBA Europe Live tour game; still, it’s a bit surprising to see BallinEurope.com sponsor Bet365 post odds […]
Belgium tries to qualify for Eurobasket 2009
The Belgian national team has not been crowned with much success in recent years. But a growing number of interesting talents will try to qualify for 2009 Eurobasket in Poland for the first time since 1993. Head coach Eddy Casteels has published his shortlist of 24 players that will attempt the impossible.