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Quinnel Brown named NBL Player of the Week
(TORONTO, ON) The National Basketball League of Canada is pleased to announce that Quinnel Brown of the Halifax Rainmen has been named the Recharge with Milk Player of the Week for the week ending December 9, 2012. This is the first time this season that a Halifax Rainmen player has earned this honour. While Brown,…
Read MoreDario Šarić no longer on speaking terms with father
When Croatian Wunderkind Dario Šarić recently signed with Cibona Zagreb it seemed like it was the end of a soap series that had lasted for months. Now, it turns out that it wasn’t. Since the signing, Dario Šarić and his father are no longer on speaking terms and don’t have any contact with each other…
Read MorePedro Martinez picks up 300th win
Pedro Martinez started coaching in the Spain ACB in at the beginning of the 1989-90 season and has seen the sidelines of numerous clubs since then. Only one other coach, Aito Garcia Reneses, has won more games in the ACB. With his current club, Herbalife Gran Canaria, winning over Lagun Aro GBC Sunday, Martinez earned…
Read MoreBlake Schilb named Euroleague Week 9 bwin MVP
An outstanding individual performance in an overtime winning effort allowed Blake Schilb of Elan Chalon-sur-Saone to earn Turkish Airlines Euroleague regular season Week 9 bwin MVP honors. Schilb led Chalon to a spectacular 108-103 overtime home win with 28 points on 6-of-7 two-point shots, 3-of-5 three-pointers and 7-of-8 free throw attempts. He added 7 rebounds,…
Read MoreCoach Dusko Ivanovic ask € 1.225.000 from Caja laboral
Montenegrin top-coach Dusko Ivanovic was fired recently by Spanish ACB team Caja Laboral Vitoria, but the story doesn’t end there. Ivanovic had a guaranteed contract and now wants to be paid for the entire season. He claims € 800.000 in salary plus another € 500.000 (deducted by 15 % taxes) in image rights. This news…
Read MorePanathinaikos BC President steps down
Dimitris Giannakopoulos, president and majority shareholder of Panathinaikos BC, called a press conference Friday morning to announce that due to what he called, “…betrayal of my own blood…”, he was stepping down from his position as club president and was going to give his ownership stake in the club to anyone interested in having it.…
Read MoreMike Batiste released, will play tonight
Mike Batiste has been released by the Greek authorities this morning. It turned out that his former team Panathinaikos had in fact paid the EUR 200.000 in taxes that was claimed. The American big man will play with his current team Fenerbahce in tonight’s Euroleague game against his former team Panathinaikos.
Read MoreMike Batiste taken into custody in Athens
Mike Batiste (204 cm, Arizona State’99) has been taken into custody by airport authorities in Athens over unpaid taxes due to the Greek government, according to a local source. Batiste is currently playing for Turkish squad Fenerbahce Ulker (Turkey-TBL), but prior to joining Ulker this season, he spent nine years in the uniform of Panathinaikos,…
Read MoreKobe Bryant: Youngest ever to reach 30,000
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Kobe Bryant has become the youngest player in NBA history to eclipse 30,000 career points and only the fifth overall to hit that mark. Bryant entered the elite scoring club during the first half of the Los Angeles Lakers’ game against the New Orleans Hornets. He arrived in New Orleans 13 points…
Read MoreCourtney Fells: Eurocup Week 5 MVP
A great performance in a make-or-break battle not only kept former champion Hapoel Migdal Jerusalem in the mix to reach the Last 16, but the star of the game, Courtney Fells, also reaped Eurocup Regular Season Game 5 MVP honors with a performance index ranking of 41. Fells led Hapoel to a much-needed home win…
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