Rolands Freimanis back with Kalev/Cramo

Latvian player, Rolands Freimanis (210 cm) is set to make his return to BC Kalev/Cramo Tallinn (Estonia-Alexela KML) this 2015/16 season. He joined them in 2014/15 after beginning the pre-season with Laboral Kutxa Vitoria (Spain-Liga Endesa). Rolands played seven games in the Estonian league and averaged 11.1 ppg and 4.7 rpg. He also played 11…

Read More

Italy and Georgia in Tbilisi Cup Finals

Italy and Georgia are set to lock horns in the Finals of the Tbilisi Cup this weekend. This is yet another friendly tournament aimed at getting various European national teams ready for the upcoming Eurobasket 2015 this September. Italy came up with a convincing 85-61 win over Estonia and Georgia edged out Latvia in a…

Read More

FIBA Announces New Euro Competition

FIBA announced via a press release that 56 clubs are confirmed to play in a new men’s second-tier club competition which is set to kick-off on October 28. The teams will be geographically placed in two conferences which also takes into account the number of participating teams from each nation. Each conference will consist of seven…

Read More

Evaldas Zabas headed to TU/Rock

Evaldas Zabas (188 cm) has agreed to terms with Estonian club Tartu Ulikool/Rock (Alexela KML) and will be joining them this 2015/16. He is a 27-year-old Canadian-Lithuanian player who was a former member of the Canadian U18 national team and the Lithuanian U20 national team. In 2014/15 Zabas played for Panevezys Lietkabelis (Lithuania-LKL). He played…

Read More

Reinis Strupovics signs with Tarvas

Latvian player, Reinis Strupovics (192 cm) will continue his professional career this 2015/16 season with BC Rakvere Tarvas (Estonia-Alexela KML). This will be his second team from the Estonian Alexela KML in as many seasons. In 2014/15 Reinis was on the roster of Valga Kalev (Estonia-Alexela KML). He played 11 games for them in the…

Read More

Tartu wins Estonian KML over Kalev/Cramo

Tartu Ulikool/Rock celebrated victory in the Estonian KML by defeating rival Kalev/Cramo Tallinn in Game 5 of the finals series to win the title. After losing Game 1, Tartu Rock has gone on a four game run and used home court advantage in the fifth game to win 86-67 to win the final 4-1. It…

Read More

Keith Benson heads to Tallinn

Keith Benson (210 cm, Oakland’11) has switched to BC Kalev/Cramo Tallinn (Estonia, Alexela KLM and VTB United League) to see out the campaign. The center has been hitting the hardwood for Neptunas Klaipeda (Lithuania, LKL) over fourteen games this season and he averaged 7.5 points and 3.2 rebounds. Last season the American played in China…

Read More

CSKA Moscow goes big on the road in VTB action

Round 20 of the VTB United League tipped off this week and it was business as usual for CSKA Moscow. The Russian giant had far too much for BC Kalev/Cramo Tallinn with a big 79-113 win, despite the Estonians being at home. The rest of Round 20 will play out over Saturday and Sunday, but…

Read More

Oleksiy Pecherov moves to Kalev/Cramo

Ukrainian big man Oleksiy Pecherov (213 cm) is a new addition to the roster of BC Kalev/Cramo Tallinn (Estonia-Alexela KML) this 2015. He is coming from Krasnie Krilya Samara (Russia-VTB). Oleksiy played six games for the club in the EuroChallenge and averaged 4.2 ppg and 2.3 rpg. In the VTB United League he averaged 7.1…

Read More

2014/2015 Eurochallenge, Round 5

Round 5 of the 2014/2015 Eurochallenge is up and running after a busy schedule of games ushered in the fifth week of competition on Wednesday. There were twelve games played through Europe on the night, while more teams booked their place in the Last 16 when others slipped out of contention for the next phase.…

Read More