Europe
AEK, Monaco Bag Wins in Basketball Champions League Q-Finals
The first leg of the Basketball Champions League Quarterfinals is now complete. AEK Athens and AS Monaco bagged wins against their respective opponents. Neither team was able to come away with double-digit margins, but wins are wins and now the pressure is on the other teams to post a higher aggregate score in the end. The…
Read MoreLiAngelo Ball Declares for NBA Draft
It should come as no surprise that LiAngelo Ball (196 cm, UCLA’18) has officially declared for the 2018 NBA Draft. That’s been his dad’s (LaVar Ball) masterplan from the beginning. He was pulled out of UCLA then went pro in Europe with his brother LaMelo this 2017-18. The siblings joined Vytautas Prienu (Lithuania-LKL). He played nine games…
Read MoreAnthony Barber joins Ironi Nahariya
Anthony Barber (188 cm, North Carolina State’16) has agreed to terms on a deal that takes to Ironi Nahariya (Israel-Winner League) as the 2017-18 season draws to a close. This will be Barber’s third team this season. He played seven games for Italian club New Basket Brindisi (Italy-Serie A) and posted averages of 10.4 ppg…
Read MoreIan Miller joins now playing for Gravelines
Ian Miller (190 cm, Florida State’14) will be bolstering the backcourt rotation of BCM Gravelines Dunkerque Grand Littoral (France-Pro A) for the remainder of the 2017-18 season. The team has an outside shot of making the playoffs but will need to pull off a miracle or two to get there. Miller began 2017-18 playing in…
Read MoreFIBA Basketball Champions League: quarter-finals underway
We are at the quarter-final stage of the FIBA Basketball Champions League and the round was opened with two contests on Tuesday evening, with the other two to be played on Wednesday. The best of 3 series tipped off as Bayreuth defeated Ludwigsburg in an all-German tie to take a 1-0 series lead. Elsewhere, Murcia…
Read MoreTaylor Braun added by VL Pesaro
Taylor Braun (201 cm, North Dakota State’14) has reached an agreement to play for VL Pesaro (Italy-Serie A) to close out the 2017-18 season. He returns to Europe after spending 2017-18 in the NBA G-League, lending his talents to the Salt Lake City Stars, where signed with after getting cut by the Utah Jazz. In…
Read MoreABA Playoffs: Semifinals Series All Tied Up
Nothing comes easy in the ABA League nowadays. Both Cedevita and KK Mornar Bar dug deep and came up with victories over the weekend to even up their respective semifinals series in the ABA Playoffs. The underdogs rose to the occasion, avoided elimination and forced a third, deciding game in their respective series. Cedevita 82…
Read MoreBen Carter goes pro with Hapoel Jerusalem
Ben Carter (206 cm, Michigan State’18) will begin his professional basketball career this 2018 with a stint playing in Israel for Hapoel Jerusalem (Israel-Winner League). Carter is born in Israel but also holds an American passport. He is a recent graduate of Michigan State University. Carter played 23 games for them in his senior year…
Read MoreSpain ACB Liga Endesa: Real Madrid beats champs
The biggest game of Round 24 of the Spain ACB Liga Endesa was held between Real Madrid and Valencia Basket in the Spanish capital. This was a clash between Real Madrid, the winningest club in Spain ACB Liga Endesa history, and Valencia, the surprise package from last season that won its first title last season.…
Read MoreTurkish Airlines EuroLeague: Round 28 Friday
Round 28 of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague was completed on Friday, ending a busy week of action. With just one playoff position left to play for, all eyes were on Baskonia as it visited Barcelona. The Vitoria team downed Barca and is now in a dominant position for the last playoff position. Elsewhere, CSKA defeated…
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