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Euroleague: Unicaja takes thriller from Siena
On a day of Euroleague blow out games, those that waited for the last contest on the schedule were treated with a barnburner in Spain when Unicaja Malaga erased an 14-point in the fourth quarter and denied Montepaschi Siena their first win of the 2012-13 Euroleague season in an overtime thriller. In other Friday games,…
Read MoreJoey Dorsey leaving Olympiacos for NBA
Joey Dorsey (203 cm, Memphis’08) has announced that he will be leaving returning Euroleague and Greece A1 champion Olympiacos effectively immediately and has worked out a contract termination with the club. With NBA rosters being cut to the league maximum 15 this week for the season opener coming next week, the timing is good for…
Read MoreEuroleague Round 3: Four Remain Undefeated
Eight squads came into Round 3 of Euroleague 2012-13 play with 2-0 records. After Thursday’s eight games, four of those teams suffered their first losses, with two of them coming on their home courts – EA7 Emporio Armani Milan falling to previously winless Caja Laboral Vitoria by 10 at the Milan Mediolanum Forum, and Fenerbahce…
Read MoreEsteban Batista returns to Anadolu Efes
Esteban Batista (208 cm) has been brought back to Anadolu Efes (Turkey-TBL) to replace Stanko Barac (216 cm), who will be missed at least a month due to an injured elbow. Batista was released by Efes prior to the season beginning and has been unable to find a team to play for. Last season he…
Read MoreEuroleague Friday – Olympiacos Stunned
Friday saw five Euroleague contests with some serious upsets along the way. The second round of games have been completed and eight of the 24 teams are still undefeated, eight haven’t picked up their first ‘W’ and eight have split with their opponents. In Friday’s action Anadolu Efes Istanbul stunned defending champions Olympiacos Piraeus 98:72;…
Read MoreRomain Sato released by prosecutor, returning to Istanbul
Romain Sato has been released by the Kranj, Slovenia prosecutors office after being questioned about irregularities on his passport. The police stated that the numbers didn’t match up and that there were stamps on the passport from countries he’s never been to. At this time there’s been no statement as to the proof/evidence that the…
Read MoreBobby Brown, Montepaschi, buzzer-beater
At the end of the first quarter Montepaschi Siena’s Bobby Brown took an inbounds pass and fired up a long range jumper against Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv in their Oct. 18th Euroleague contest… [embedplusvideo height=”298″ width=”480″ standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/viMKoPtAEKo?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=viMKoPtAEKo&width=480&height=298&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=” id=”ep6994″ /] Video courtesy: Euroleague
Read MoreSlovenian Police release statement regarding Romain Sato
The Police Department in Kranj, Slovenia has released a statement regarding Romain Sato. Police of Kranj has confirmed today that they arrested a foreign citizen, who didn’t have valid traveling documents to enter the country. On 18.10.2012. around 14.30 the officers at the Ljubljana Jože Pučnik airport’s passport check discovered that the 31 years old…
Read MoreRomain Sato arrested, Fenerbahce Ulker cries scandal
Romain Sato, member of the Fenerbahce Ulker basketball squad, has been arrested and detained by Slovenian police under suspicion of traveling with a fake passport. As the Fenerbahce Ulker squad went through normal credential checks upon arriving in Slovenia yesterday for today’s Euroleague match-up with Union Olimpija, Sato was detained while his papers were further…
Read MoreClose games in Euroleague Round 2
The theme for Game 2 in the Euroleague schedule seems to be how close can they finish the games as five of the seven contests currently played have ended in score differentials at the end of regulation of a total of nine points. Last year’s Final Four Runner-Up CSKA Moscow slid past Partizan mt:s Belgrade…
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