Europe
Joseph Gomis agrees to terms with SLUC Nancy
Joseph Gomis (180 cm) has agreed to terms with SLUC Nancy (France-ProA), which marks a return to the club for Gomis, who also played for Nancy during the 2000-01 and 2001-02 seasons. Gomis has been playing for Limoges CSP Elite for the past season and a half starting in France ProB and helping the club…
Read MoreEuroleague: Three spots remain to be decided
What day 1 of Week 9 of the Euroleague regular season lacked in drama, day 2 certainly made up for it. Friday saw two uneven scores, with Anadolu Efes vs. Caja Laboral at 76:91, and Panathinaikos vs. Fenerbahce 69:55, but the rest were nail-biters. Lievtuvos Rytas hosted Brose Baskets in a critical Group A match…
Read MoreMike Batiste honored by Panathinaikos
In the world of professional sports, it’s not every day that a player spends a number of years with a team, then moves on, only to be given a hero’s welcome when they come back to suit up in the opposing team colors. Friday evening, when Fenerbahce made the journey to Athens for a Euroleague…
Read MoreEuroleague Standings – Week 9
Euroleague Standings – Week 9
Read MoreCoach Dusko Ivanovic ask € 1.225.000 from Caja laboral
Montenegrin top-coach Dusko Ivanovic was fired recently by Spanish ACB team Caja Laboral Vitoria, but the story doesn’t end there. Ivanovic had a guaranteed contract and now wants to be paid for the entire season. He claims € 800.000 in salary plus another € 500.000 (deducted by 15 % taxes) in image rights. This news…
Read MoreVideo: Nate Jawai’s block to save Barca’s undefeated season
Video of Nate Jawai’s block to preserve FC Barcelona’s win over Partizan mt:s in Euroleague Week 9 [embedplusvideo height=”298″ width=”480″ standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/O8Av0LGxGfs?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=O8Av0LGxGfs&width=480&height=298&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=” id=”ep2843″ /]
Read MorePanathinaikos BC President steps down
Dimitris Giannakopoulos, president and majority shareholder of Panathinaikos BC, called a press conference Friday morning to announce that due to what he called, “…betrayal of my own blood…”, he was stepping down from his position as club president and was going to give his ownership stake in the club to anyone interested in having it.…
Read MoreMike Batiste released, will play tonight
Mike Batiste has been released by the Greek authorities this morning. It turned out that his former team Panathinaikos had in fact paid the EUR 200.000 in taxes that was claimed. The American big man will play with his current team Fenerbahce in tonight’s Euroleague game against his former team Panathinaikos.
Read MoreVernon Teel signs with Elitzur Ramla
Vernon Teel (193 cm, Loyola Marymount’11) has signed in Israel with second division team Elitzur Ramla. Teel played in the United Kingdom last season and started this season with Ventspils from Latvia.
Read MoreAnthony Jones signs with Szeged
Anthony Jones (191 cm, Indiana Tech’08) has signed with Hungarian team SZTE Szeged. Jones started the season in the Turkish second division where he played for Baskent Genclik Ankara. Last year he played for Handlova in the Slovak Republic and was the MVP of the league there.
Read More