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Eurocup Round 6, Day 1
Round 6 of this season´s Eurocup is underway after five games were held on Tuesday evening as the competition starts to heat up in the second half of the Regular Season. It was a night of largely comfortable victories as the groups begin to take shape during the 2013/2014 season. In Group B KK Cedevita…
Read MoreSpanish Liga Endesa: Barcelona gets first loss
FC Regal Barcelona felt it’s first taste of defeat in the Spanish Liga Endesa at the hands of Bilbao Basket on Sunday. The loss also knocks Barca off the pole position it once held. Real Madrid is now the last remaining undefeated team in the league. FCB Regal, now at 5-1, joins Herbalife Gran Canaria…
Read MoreEuroleague Round 5: roundup
The second night of Euroleague Round 5 action in the has finished and it was a night in which Maccabi Tel Aviv downed old rivals Panathinaikos at home. Thursday featured some of the closest matches in recent weeks as Barcelona continued to find consistency with a road win over Kiev and Kuban narrowly defeated Kutxa…
Read MoreEuroleague: Madrid puts Efes to the sword
Real Madrid put on a Euroleague masterclass on Wednesday night as the Spanish giants destroyed Anadolu Efes in the opening game of the 5th round. The Efes players would have been on a high after seeing off Zalgiris last week to go second in Group B, but Madrid was in unforgiving mood and swept the…
Read MoreEurocup: EWE beats Bilbao to top Group B
Eurocup Week 5 of the 2013/2014 Eurocup got underway as the competitions Regular Season landed at the half way point. Six of this weeks 24 games were contested on Tuesday night and it was business as usual for teams vying at the tops of groups. The big game of the night was in Germany, where…
Read MoreLiga Endesa: One falls, three remain unbeaten
Going into the Week 4 match-ups in the Spanish Liga Endesa there were four clubs that held perfect records, but with two of those clubs set to square off against each other, one was certainly falling from the ranks. As Gran Canaria and CB Canarias got set for the latest installment of the Canary Island…
Read MoreJason Rowe heads to BdR Valladolid
Jason Rowe (178 cm, Loyola, Maryland’00) has been picked up by Spanish Lige Endesa team Blancos de Rueda Valladolid for the 2013-14 season. The team is off to a slow start and have won only one game out of their first four contests. Rowe’s signing brings an added veteran presence to their backcourt. Rowe played…
Read MoreEuroleague: Laboral Kutxa downs Lietuvos Rytas
There was a lone Euroleague game last night, but it provided some good basketball action. In Group D we saw Spain’s Laboral Kutxa Vitoria battle Lithuania’s Lietuvos Rytas for the victory, 85-64. Laboral Kutxa reaped the benefits of a recent decision to retain Serbian-Montenegrin player Milko Bjelica (205 cm) for at least one more month.…
Read MoreMilko Bjelica remains with Laboral Kutxa
Spanish Liga Endesa team Laboral Kutxa Vitoria has opted to keep Serbian-Montenegrin player Milko Bjelica (205 cm) for at least one more month. The deal involves an option for it to be extended. Bjelica has been a member of the Montenegro National Team in 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2013. Milko, if awarded a full-season contract,…
Read MoreSpain Liga Endesa: Four remain undefeated
They’ve finished Week 3 in Spain’s Liga Endesa and four clubs have made it through with unblemished records. Sitting on the top of the league are Real Madrid, Herbalife Gran Canaria, Canary CB, and FC Barcelona Regal with 3-0 records. On the other end of the standings are the winless clubs Rio Natura Monbus, Bilbao…
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