Netherlands
Brandyn Curry starts career with Den Bosch
Dutch club SPM Shoeters Den Bosch (Netherlands-Eredivisie) has selected a fresh import for 2014-15 in Brandyn Curry (187 cm, Harvard’14). He will be reinforcing their backcourt for the upcoming season and will be a developmental project for the team. Den Bosch had a promising year last season, making the Eredivisie league finals and winning the…
Read More2015 EuroBasket qualifiers day 2
Day 2 of the 2015 Eurobasket qualifiers took place last night and the groups are now starting to take shape after twelve games took place. Group A The United Kingdom continued to struggle as they fell to defeat against Bosnia 67-80 to slip to the bottom of Group A after also losing to Iceland in…
Read MoreTyson Hinz pens with Zwolle
Tyson Hinz (201 cm) has penned a deal with Dutch Eredivisie side Landstede Basketbal Zwolle for the start of the 2014/2015 season. It will be the forward’s first post in professional Basketball after he left Carleton University earlier in the summer. Last season the Canadian represented the school in the CIS and from 27 games…
Read MoreSean Cunningham heads to Groningen
The 2014 Dutch Eredivisie champions GasTerra Flames Groningen have added Sean Cunningham (188 cm, Cal-Riverside’10) for the 2014-15 season. Cunningham is an American player who also owns a Dutch passport. He has been a member of the Dutch National Team from 2012 to the present. In 2013-14 Sean played for Zorg and Zekerheid Leiden (Netherlands-Eredivisie).…
Read MoreMatrixx Magixx withdraws from Dutch league
The Matrixx Magixx Wijchen will not be participating in the Dutch Eredivisie league this coming season. The team lost Nijmegen as their main sponsor and found themselves in financial difficulty ever since. For those reasons they were unable to meet the necessary requirements to remain in the league. Matrixx Magixx joined the league in 2000…
Read MoreKim Tillie lands with Laboral Kutxa
Spanish Liga Endesa team Laboral Kutxa Vitoria has landed French-Dutch forward Kim Tillie (211 cm, Utah’10) for the 2014-15 season. Tillie was a member of the French National Team in 2011 and 2013. Kim spent the last couple of seasons on the roster of another team from the Spanish league, Universidad Catolica de Murcia CB.…
Read MoreRoss Bekkering renews with Groningen
The GasTerra Flames Groningen (Netherlands-Eredivisie) will be bringing back Canadian big man Ross Bekkering (203 cm) for the 2014-15 season. Ross participated in six EuroChallenge games for the Dutch powerhouse and averaged 8.7 ppg and 4.8 rpg. He managed to play in a total of 46 games in the domestic Dutch Eredivisie league and there…
Read MoreGroningen bags Dutch Eredivisie title
GasTerra Flames Groningen took a decisive, 76-68 Game-7 win over SPM Shoeters Den Bosch to bag the 2013-14 Dutch Eredivisie title. It was a triumphant ending for the new champs in what was an exciting and hard fought series. Groningen capped off a solid season by taking home the trophy. The also ended the regular…
Read MoreKickert joins Tenerife
Daniel Kickert (208 cm, St. Mary´s California´06) has agreed a deal that will take him back to Spain to play for CB Canarias Tenerife (Liga Endesa). The Australian with a Dutch passport has been playing for Azovmash Mariupol (Ukraine, Superleague and VTB United League) this season. In seventeen Superleague games the power forward averaged 17.1…
Read MoreDan Gadzuric to play for Petrochimi
Former NBA big man Dan Gadzuric (211 cm, UCLA’02) will be getting a taste of Asian hoops as he signs with Petrochimi Bandar Imam Harbor (Iran-Superleague) this 2013-14 season. The big man who hails from the Netherlands is coming off a stint playing for the Marinos de Anzoategui from Venezuela’s LPB, joining them in February…
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