Archive for 2013
Liga Endesa: Five of top eight teams fall
While there’s still a lot of basketball to play in Spain’s Liga Endesa, when five of the top eight teams lose in any particular week, it’s not difficult to predict that the last few weeks of the regular season are going to be interesting. With only eight of 18 teams making the playoffs, 13 teams…
Read MoreCoach Aco Petrović resigns from Cedevita
Tonight Croatian team Cedevita Zagreb and Serbian team Partizan Belgrade played a crucial game in the Adriatic League. The winner would have good chances to qualify for the Final Four and keep the hopes alive for Euroleague participation next season. In a very tight game Partizan pulled away with a 77-76 victory. Coach Aco Petrović…
Read MoreAdriatic League: Two clinch spots in semifinals
With only three weeks remaining in the 2012-13 Adriatic League, the battle for the four playoff spots is now down to just six teams and two spots, as the top two have already been booked. Radnicki’s 78:63 win over Buducnost VOLI on Saturday split the two from a tie in the No. 3 spot, keeping…
Read MoreLamayn Wilson signs with Samara
32-year old American Lamayn Wilson (204 cm, Troy State’02) has penned a deal with Russian team Krasnye Krylya Samara (PBL, VYB United, and EuroChallenge). The hugely experienced forward has been in Puerto Rico since January with BSN team Capitanes de Arecibo but did not play any games. He started the season with BC Armia Tbilisi…
Read MoreDaniel Kickert signs with Kyiv
Australian power forward Daniel Kickert (208 cm, St. Marys’06) has signed with Ukrainian outfit Budivelnyk Kyiv (Superleague, Eurocup) until the end of the season. Kickert started this season in the Ukraine with Superleague team Dnipro where he played 28 games and recorded impressive averages of 17.6ppg, 5.7rpg and 1.5apg. Daniel Kickert will join up with…
Read MoreVladislav Dragojlovic joins Kuwait SC
Al Kuwait SC (Kuwait, Division 1) has announced the signing of Vladislav Dragojlovic (209 cm) who will play with the team until the end of the season. The Serbian will be heading to Kuwait SC for his second stint with the team after he was previously a part of the roster back in the 2011-2012…
Read MoreNBB Brazil All-Star Game review
This year proved to be an historic one for the Brazilian All-Star game that is played each year between a team comprised of home-grown Brazilian National Brazil Basketball players and a team with foreign imports. For the first time in the history of the annual celebration the game was decided in overtime after the game…
Read MoreEuroleague: Nenad Krstic named Week 9 MVP
He was the 2011-12 All-Euroleague First Team center and on Friday Nenad Krstic showed again why. The CSKA Moscow big man not only put up the best numbers of any player in Top 16 Game 9, but he did so at the most important times in the game to pave the way to an 80-65…
Read MoreEuroleague: Panathinaikos halts Efes streak
The excitement of close games was all spent on Day 1 of the Euroleague Week 9, as Day 2 provided three games, all with differences topping 13 or more. The game of the day, Panathinaikos Athens against Top 16 surprise club Anadolu Efes, ended with the Greens putting an end to Anadolu’s seven-game Top 16…
Read MoreAntonio Porta signs with Valladolid
Argentinian-Italian Antonio Porta (187 cm) has signed with Blancos De Rueda Valladolid (Spain, ACB) until the rest of the season from Givova Scafati (Italy, Lega 2). The 29-year old point guard has played 8 games with Givova 7.3ppg, 3.3rpg, and 1.2apg. Last season Porta also played in Italy’s Lega 2 with Tezenis Verona where he…
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