Europe
Predrag Krunic is new coach of Bayreuth
BBC Bayreuth from Germany’s BBL has recently announced that Predrag Krunic will be the team’s new Head Coach. Krunic, who hails from Bosnia and Herzegovina, is not on a rescue mission to salvage what’s left of Bayreuth’s season, but actually being positioned should the team avoid gettting eliminated. Krunic has had a long-standing background coaching…
Read MoreItaly SerieA: Montepaschi snaps losing streak
Coming into their Week 24 SerieA contest with Lenovo Cantu, Montepaschi Siena had lost three straight SerieA contests and three straight Euroleague games, including the most recent loss that gave Besiktas JK Istanbul their first Top 16 win on the season. To say that the Montepaschi men had fallen on hard times as of late…
Read MoreGermany BBL: ALBA Berlin wins German Cup
ALBA Berlin clinched the German Cup on Sunday with an 85-67 win over Ratiopharm Ulm. The win marked the German capital’s team’s first peace of silverware since 2009 while it was also the seventh time that ALBA has lifted the German Cup. ALBA Berlin was hosting the Beko BBL TOP FOUR in the O2 World…
Read MoreDaniel McClintock to AS Monaco Basket
Big man Daniel McClintock (212 cm, Northern Arizona’00) has signed a deal to play for AC Monaco Basket from France’s NM1. Before this deal, the 36-year-old was with the Arizona Scorpions from the ABA. In the 2011-12 season he played for MBC Mykolaiv from Ukraine’s Superleague. That season, he played 35 games and averaged 12.4…
Read MoreMarko Milic heads to Al Kuwait
Marko Milic (201 cm) is headed to Kuwait to play for Al Kuwait SC from the country’s D1 League. The 36-year-old Slovenian began the 2012-13 season playing for Mahram Tehran from Iran’s Superleague. There he averaged 16.4 ppg and 9.0 rpg in 11 games. Prior to playing in Iran, Milic spent two seasons playing for…
Read MoreLiga Endesa: Bubble teams have rough week
Liga Endesa No. 1 club Real Madrid and No. 2 club Caja Laboral got back to their winning ways with their Week 26 contests. Six clubs currently in the middle of the standings, fighting for the top eight spots and the league playoffs, lost this week, bringing eight teams within four games of each other.…
Read MoreAdriatic League: All-Serbian Final Four
Regular season play in the Adriatic League wrapped up on Saturday allowing the Final Four to be determined and amazingly the clubs that will be participating are all Serbian. No. 1 club KK Igokea is technically in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but from Republika Srpska which is the Serbian part. The other three, No. 2 KK…
Read MoreEuroleague: Besiktas upsets Montepaschi Siena
It took them 12 weeks of Euroleague Top 16 play, but Besiktas JK Istanbul have finally earned their first win, at the expense of Montepaschi Siena, 74:72. Siena’s loss and the Maccabi Electra’s win over Olympiacos puts the two clubs in a tie for the second spot in Group F with two other teams, Khimki…
Read MoreTelemach sees another coaching change
TTHCast Mercator Skofja Loka from Slovenia’s Telemach League is the fourth team to see a change in it’s head coach. After an early poor showing by the team, coach Sasa Doncic has stepped down and has been replaced by his assistant, Peter Hartman. It was a rough patch of the team only managing to win…
Read MoreJordan Theodore joins Cedevita Zagreb
Jordan Theodore (182 cm, Seton Hall’12) has joined KK Cedevita Zagreb from Croatia’s A1 League. He is coming off playing 22 games for Antalya Buyuksehir Belediye from Turkey’s TBL. During that stint he averaged 14.8 ppg and 4.0 apg. He is no stranger to Croatia’s A1 League as he has been with KK Cibona VIP…
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