Archive for September 2018
ABA Liga: Crvena Zvezda Gets Off On Right Foot
Two games were played on Friday night as the ABA Liga opened the 2018-19 season. Last season’s runner-up Crvena Zvezda MTS Beograd got off to a blistering start on their road to redemption with a 78-68 win over KK Cibona Zagreb. The other game, Petrol Olimpija Ljubljana cruised to a convincing 78-66 victory over KK Mornar…
Read MoreFC Barcelona Opens 2018-19 With Win At ACB
The Spanish ACB or Liga Endesa welcomed the 2018-19 regular season on September 27th. FC Barcelona Lassa tipped things off with an easy victory over Herbalife Gran Canaria 98-78. This is the first game of the league for Round 1 with two more games to be played later this evening. Unicaja Malaga will take on…
Read MoreSteven Burtt added by Rethymno
Steven Burtt (189 cm, Iona’06) will lend his talents to the Rethymno Cretan Kings (Greece-A1) for the upcoming 2018-19 season. Burtt is a 34-year-old Ukrainian-American international basketball player who played for the Ukrainian National Team from 2011 to 2012. In 2017-18 the experienced veteran was originally with Naft Abadan (Iran-Superleague) but later moved to Greece…
Read MoreEdin Atic joins Mega Bemax
Edin Atic (201 ccm) will be bolstering the roster of Serbian club BC Mega Bemax Sremska Mitrovica (Serbia-KLS) for the 2018-19 season. He is from Bosnia and Herzegovina and has been a member of the Bosnian National Team since 2015. Atic spent the last three seasons playing for Greek teams. In 2017-18, the 21-year-old suited…
Read MoreErik Rush pens with Brindisi
Erik Rush (196 cm, Montana State’11) will continue his professional basketball career in 2018-19 as a new face on the roster of Happy Casa Brindisi (Italy-Serie A). Rush is a Swedish-Amerian international basketball player who played for the Swedish National Team from 2011 to 2013. This will be an upgrade in competition for the 30-year-old…
Read MorePanathinaikos and the Pavlos Giannakopoulos era
Panathinaikos will host a tournament to honor the memory of the legendary owner, Pavlos Giannakopoulos, who passed away in June. Fenerbahce, Maccabi Tel-Aviv, and Khimki will participate in the event, which will take place on Thursday and Friday (27-28 September). Many athletes and executives from Panathinaikos football and volleyball teams will be present in the event.…
Read MoreKelsey Barlow switches to Hoops Club
Kelsey Barlow (196 cm, University of Illinois’14) has agreed to terms on a deal that sends him to Hoops Club (Lebanon-LBL) for the 2018-19 season. Barlow heads there by way GS Kymis (Greece-A1), where he was initially slated to play. The 26-year-old Barlow was on the roster of AEK Athens (Greece-A1) in the 2017-18 season. He…
Read MoreBasketball Champions League Round 2 Qualifiers
With the 2018-19 regular season looming just around the corner, the Basketball Champions League qualifiers are heating up in Round 2. The remaining teams aspiring to make the cut and participate in this season’s Champions League played some amazing basketball. 📊 Here are the results of Leg 1 of the Qualification Round 2! Road teams pull…
Read MoreTrevor Mbakwe landed by Ludwigsburg
Trevor Mbakwe (207 cm, Minnesota’13) has recently inked a deal to play for MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg (Germany-BBL) in 2018-19. He is a Nigerian-American international basketball player who played for the Nigerian National Team in 2016. This is not his first time around the German Bundesliga, having seen action for Brose Baskets Bamberg in the 2014-15…
Read MoreCrvena Zvezda Claims 2018 ABA League Supercup
Two Titans of the Adriatic locked horns in the ABA League Supercup Finals on September 23 and in the end, Crvena Zvezda toppled Buducnost 75-89. Both of these teams have been at the apex of this regional league over the last few seasons, so it should not come as a surprise that the creme de…
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