Archive for January 2022
NBA season update
With the regular NBA season about halfway done, we look at the top teams and predict who we think will make the playoffs this year. With the NBA back to an 82-game regular season, we are fast coming up to the halfway stage. There have been a few surprises in the first three or four…
Read MoreBarcelona beats reigning Euroleague champion Anadolu Efes in a rematch from the 2021 final
Round 21 of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague began with a pair of Thursday games that ended in 5-point results. First, AS Monaco outlasted FC Bayern Munich on the road, and then FC Barcelona bested reigning champion Anadolu Efes Istanbul in a rematch from the 2021 championship game. The two-round week continues Friday when CSKA Moscow…
Read MoreCOVID-19 issues among NBA staffers causing problems
While more than 300 NBA players have entered the league’s health and safety protocols this season because of COVID-19-related issues, a debilitating issue remains the recent surge of team staffers — from coaches to support staff and beyond — entering protocols for the same reason. This season there have been more than 500 confirmed COVID-19…
Read MoreCSKA wins Euroleague road game against Panathinaikos
With more than half the games of Round 20 postponed to later dates, there was only one Euroleague game on Wednesday night. CSKA Moscow blitzed Panathinaikos OPAP Athens to earn a comfortable 74-98 victory in the Greek capital on Wednesday night. A closely contested first quarter was followed by a mismatch in the second as CSKA…
Read MorePartizan, Joventut, Buducnost lead at 7DAYS Eurocup midway point
Round 9 marked the midway point of the 7DAYS EuroCup Regular Season, and three teams stand above the rest. Partizan and Joventut share the top spot in Group A with 7-2 records, and Buducnost is alone in first place in Group B with the same mark. Each group had a different story on Wednesday; Partizan…
Read MoreMilan topples top-ranked Barcelona in Euroleague round 20
The two-round week of January began on Tuesday with the first three games of Round 20. First, Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul used its depth to pull away in the second half and defeat Olympiacos Piraeus 94-80. Then FC Bayern Munich snapped its three-game losing streak by fighting off Zalgiris Kaunas 74-65 at home. In the nightcap,…
Read MoreHamburg beats Turk Telekom in Eurocup action, and Caleb Homesley makes history
The 7DAYS EuroCup returned to action after the New Year’s break with a historical performance in Tuesday’s lone game. Caleb Homesley set Hamburg Towers club records in scoring, three-pointers made, rebounds, and PIR to lead his team to their third straight win, 94-74 over Turk Telekom Ankara. Wednesday brings six more games, including the highly-anticipated…
Read MoreNo more undefeated teams in NCAA Division 1
Both No. 1 Baylor and No. 5 USC, the remaining undefeated NCAA Division I men’s basketball teams, suffered losses Tuesday night. Baylor’s 21-game winning streak, which started last season, was snapped in a 65-62 loss to No. 19 Texas Tech in Waco, Texas. That result came shortly after USC fell at Stanford, 75-69. In recent…
Read MoreMaccabi Tel Aviv signs shooting guard Khyri Thomas
Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv added another weapon to its backcourt with the signing of shooting guard Khyri Thomas for the remainder of the season. Thomas (191 cm, 25 years old) arrives from Spanish club Bilbao, where he averaged 12.0 points on 4-of-9 three-point shooting in two games this season. A two-time Big East Conference Defensive…
Read MoreEuroleague announces more rescheduled games
Following the ECA Shareholders approval of the modification proposal presented by Euroleague Basketball of the COVID-19 Special regulations, the following games have been rescheduled to be played on the stated new dates and times: ROUND 17 Zalgiris Kaunas vs. AX Armani Exchange Milan, February 8, 2022, at 20:00 Local Time. ROUND 18 AX Armani Exchange…
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