Kalev/Cramo wins first Basketball Champions League game ever

Even a two-game day provides drama in the Basketball Champions League. Kalev/Cramo won their first-ever game in the competition, and they’ve done it on the road in Turkey, but Jerrick Harding and ERA Nymburk grabbed the headlines in Greece. It was never even supposed to be a close game. Czech champs had an 11-point lead…

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Strasbourg wins fourth consecutive BCL game against Oostende

Strasbourg continued their dominance over Oostende in the Basketball Champions League with an 83-77 victory on Oostende’s home court. In seven games between the two teams in BCL history, Strasbourg is now 6-1 overall against Oostende and 4-0 when playing in Oostende. All nine players who played for Strasbourg scored, and five scored in double figures (John…

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Jaylen Hands to Antwerp

Jaylen Hands (191 cm, G) has signed in the new BNXT League. Hands signed with the Antwerp Giants, who are currently holding a 3-1 record and sit in third place in the standings of the Belgium round of the BNXT League. Hands started this season in the BBL in Germany. There he played two games…

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Adriatic League champion Crvena Zvezda stumbles and falls

Bosnian team Igokea scored a massive win in Round 3 of the 2021/22 AdmiralBet ABA League regular season as they defeated reigning champions Crvena Zvezda at home. Igokea extended their home-court winning streak against the red-and-whites as this was their 3rd consecutive win against the Belgrade side in Laktaši. Igokea led throughout the whole game. The…

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Panathinaikos inks Yogi Ferrell

Panathinaikos Athens added another weapon to its backcourt by signing Yogi Ferrell for the remainder of the season. Ferrell (183 cm, 28 years old) has spent the past five seasons in the NBA, where he played for Brooklyn, Dallas, Cleveland, Sacramento, and Los Angeles Clippers. For his career, he averaged 7.7 points and 2.3 assists…

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Four of the five Euroleague games won by visiting teams

Road warriors came to the fore on Friday night, with four of the five games won by the away teams. The most dramatic was taken by CSKA Moscow, which holds firm to win a battle of recent champions, 96-100, at Anadolu Efes Istanbul. AS Monaco, LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne, and AX Armani Exchange Milan were also…

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18 former NBA players charged in alleged health care fraud scheme

Eighteen former NBA players have been arrested and charged with defrauding the NBA’s Health and Welfare Benefit Plan out of $4 million. In an indictment filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York, the ex-players are accused of submitting false reimbursement claims from around 2017 to 2020 for medical and dental services…

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Lots of action in FIBA Basketball Champions League

Unicaja Malaga had a successful debut in the Basketball Champions League with a road victory in Russia against Nizhny Novgorod.  In another game, Sasu Salin and Aaron Doornekamp put on the show for Lenovo Tenerife against Ukrainian champions Prometey, protecting the Spanish clubs’ perfect record for the start of Season 6. Prometey led 43-32 at…

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