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EuroChallenge 2013 begins with Qualifying
EuroChallenge 2013 is set to begin today with the first Qualifying Round contests. Eight teams will battle for four spots in the regular season with home and away games to determine the remaining four spots in groups A, B, D, and G. Currently 28 teams are awaiting the results of the Qualifying Rounds to fill out…
Read MoreFIBA Asia Cup: Iran denies host Japan title
Host squad Japan found themselves up by four points in the finals of the FIBA Asia Cup held yesterday in Tokyo, Japan, with a minute and a half left in the game, only to see that lead erased on two different types of three-point plays. Iran ran the table in the competition going undefeated in…
Read MoreFIBA Asia Cup: Iran – Japan in Finals today
The FIBA Asia Cup finals are set and not surprisingly it’s a rematch of the last game of the qualifying round between Iran and host Japan. In the first contest, Iran came out on top 71-65. Japan – Qatar 73-66 In yesterday’s semi-finals Qatar got out to a small lead after the first quarter. The…
Read MoreFIBA Americas Championship set for 2013
FIBA Americas has announced the 2013 FIBA Americas Championship will be held from the 20th of August to the 1st of September of 2013 in Caracas, Venezuela. The championship will help select the four teams to move on to the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain. The ten countries that will play are Argentina,…
Read MoreFIBA Asia Cup: Qatar stuns in Quarter-Finals
On a day that the Lebanese Basketball contingent was earlier celebrating their good fortunes after being awarded the 2013 FIBA Asia Championships for Men, they seem to have forgotten that they were in Tokyo to play some basketball. The top-ranked team in Group A squared off with Qatar, the fourth-ranked team in Group B, and…
Read MoreFIBA Asia Championship 2013 awarded to Lebanon
It was announced yesterday that Lebanon will host the 2013 FIBA Asia Championship for Men. The vote by FIBA Asia’s Executive Committee was held to determine which of the applications they would accept between Lebanon, Iran and the Philippines. The FIBA Asia Championships have never been hosted by Lebanon and with the quality of their…
Read MoreFIBA 3×3 World Tour concludes in Miami this week
12 of the best 3×3 squads in the world are heading to Miami, FL for the finale of the FIBA 3×3 World Tour competition. On Friday and Saturday, Sept. 21 and 22, the teams representing cities from around the world, will square off in a competition that will divide the teams into two pools that…
Read MoreFIBA rules in favour of Maccabi Tel Aviv in Yogev Ohayon case
According to Israeli media, FIBA ruled in favor of Maccabi Tel Aviv in the dispute between the squad and Yogev Ohayon. FIBA has agreed with Maccabi that it was against the contract they had with Ohayon for him to leave the team for Lokomotiv Kuban without any financial considerations. Ohayon claimed that his agreement had…
Read MoreFIBA Asia Cup: Quarter-Finals Set
With the FIBA Asia Cup preliminary rounds now completed, the competition will head into the Quarter-Final round on Thursday. Finishing the round-robin competition saw two blow-outs, an alley-oop buzzer-beater and the game of the tournament thus far between previously unbeaten Iran and host Japan. In Group A, the squad from the Philippines had already concluded…
Read MoreFIBA Asia Cup: Day 4
Day four of the FIBA Asia Cup saw two blow-outs in Group A, a tight game between Iran and Chinese Taipei, and India being the first team eliminated. The Group A games were both massive blow-outs as the Philippines squad gave Macau their third lopsided contest of the Cup, 98-46. China handed Uzbekistan the same…
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