Euroleague
Euroleague: Madrid in, Panathinaikos up 2-1
As the 2012-13 Euroleague season progressed, one thing was fairly certain, FC Barcelona Regal was one of the favorites in each stage to advance to the next and to ultimately take home the Euroleague title. The finished 9-1 in the regular season and then 13-1 in the Top 16 round, then they had to square…
Read MoreEuroleague: Viktor Khryapa named QF Game 2 MVP
Viktor Khryapa pieced together another impressive all-around performance Friday in leading CSKA Moscow to a 90-68 rout of Caja Laboral and a 2-0 lead in their best-of-five playoffs series. Khryapa’s strong stat line also resulted in him winning Playoffs Game 2 bwin MVP honors and in becoming the fifth CSKA player to claim bwin MVP…
Read MoreEuroleague: Three series pull within one game
After Thursday’s thrilling last second Euroleague win by Panathinaikos over top ranked Barcelona Regal that evened their series at one game each, Friday’s contests were all won by the home clubs to bring those three series to 2-0 and within one game of moving on to the semifinals. In Moscow, CSKA put up a 22-point…
Read MoreEuroleague: Greens stun Barca in QF Game 2
Two games, three points… That’s the difference between Panathinaikos and Barcelona Regal in their two Euroleague quarterfinal games. In Game 2 of their best-of-five series, the Greens fought off a 21:11 second quarter to give themselves the opportunity to come from behind in the final 10 to capture Game 2, 65:66, and even the series…
Read MoreEuroleague: Rudy Fernandez named QF Game 1 MVP
Rudy Fernandez was the star of the night for Real Madrid as it pounded Maccabi Electra 79-53 in the most lopsided of the four Game 1s to the Turkish Airlines Euroleague playoffs. And when the buzzer sounded, he was also the bwin MVP for Game 1 of the playoffs with a performance index rating of…
Read MoreEuroleague: Top seeds dominate QF game one
The main strategy for Game 1 of the Euroleague quarterfinals was simple, just be the home team… Technically, that meant being the top seeded team, so there was some work involved, but the common thread was that the winners and those that currently hold 1-0 records in the four, best-of-five, quarterfinals series, were all clubs…
Read MoreBarcelona takes 1-0 lead with OT win
FC Barcelona Regal took a 1-0 lead over Panathinaikos Athens in their best-of-five playoff series in the quarterfinals of the Euroleague. It was an intense and tightly contested game that required an extra quarter of action in order to get a final resolution of 72-70 in favor of Barcelona. Perennial Euroleague competitor, Panathinaikos drew first…
Read MoreEuroleague: and then there were eight…
Euroleague Week 14 arrived with much enthusiasm and anticipation, with the knowledge that in the eight games to be played in the final Top 16 week, a much expanded Top 16 over previous years, six of the final week’s contests would help to determine how the next round of competition would look. In Group E,…
Read MoreEuroleague: Week 14 playoff possibilities
As the Euroleague Top 16 Week 13 games started wrapping up and the scores were entering into various league standings applications, one thing became clear as it related to Group F, Nothing is clear with the exception of 12-1 FC Barcelona Regal finishing in the top spot regardless of the outcome of their contest with…
Read MoreMiloš Todosić and Nenad Krstić in heroic act
Serbian players Miloš Todosić and Nenad Krstić were involved in a heroic act this week as they raised $ 100.000 to pay for a heart transplant of a young Serbian girl called Tijana Ognjanović. She urgently needs a heart transplantation that would be performed in Houston and the clock is ticking. The two players from…
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