Turkey
5th International Rixos Cup heads to Semis
The 5th International Rixos Cup enters the Semi-Final Round today after three days of round-robin contests. The competition is being held in Antalya, Turkey at the Ataturk Sport Hall and includes the following squads: Group A Banvit Basketball Kulubu, Turkey BC Unics Kazan, Russia Galatasaray Meical Park Istanbul, Turkey Group B Besiktas Istanbul, Turkey Cibona…
Read MoreDewayne Reed signs with Pertevniyal
Dewayne Reed (185 cm, Auburn’10) has signed with Turkish 2nd division team Pertevniyal from Istanbul. During the 210/2011 season Dewayne Reed was already with a Turkish club (Erdemir) for a short while. Afterwards, his career took him to Ukraine, Iceland, Cyprus and Croatia.
Read MoreMalcolm Kirkland fails medical at Balikesir
Malcolm Kirkland (203 cm, Arkansas State’12)has failed the medical examination at his Turkish 2nd division club BEST Balikesir. It would have been the first professional contract for Malcolm Kirkland. Last season he played for Arkansas State and averaged 12.1 ppg and 6.2 rpg in the Sunbelt.
Read MoreEuroBasket 2013: The Field is Set with 24 Teams
As the final games of the EuroBasket 2013 Qualification Round were getting ready to start, there no doubt were pencils being sharpened, calculator batteries being checked, spreadsheets getting fired up and for those old school mathematicians out there, most likely a slide rule or two getting dusted off in anticipation of the intense calculations that…
Read MoreEuroBasket 2013: 6 Spots, 10 Teams, Tip Time!
The EuroBasket 2013 Qualification round is about to be committed to the history books, but before they start planning for the Final Round, there’s a game or two left to be played. Today marks the final day of competition to determine which 16 teams will earn the right to compete for their respective countries in…
Read MoreMalcolm Kirkland signs with Balikesir
Malcolm Kirkland (203 cm, Arkansas State’12) has signed for Turkish 2nd division team Best Balikesir for the upcoming season. This is the first professional contract for Malcolm Kirkland. Last season he averaged 12.1 ppg and 6.2 rpg with Arkansas State in the Sun Belt Conference.
Read MoreMarcus Hall signs with Darussafaka
Marcus Hall (185 cm, Colorado’08) is going back to Turkey where he already played during the 2009/2010 season. This time Marcus Hall has signed with Darussafaka. Last season he played for Levski Sofia from Bulgaria.
Read MoreEuroBasket 2013: Georgia qualifies, six left
Georgia took advantage of game eight of the EuroBasket 2013 Qualification Round to punch their tickets to the Finals with a 73-70 win over Latvia. Georgia was the only team that was able to definitively qualify, leaving six openings for the rest of the teams to fight for on the last day of competition, Tuesday,…
Read MoreEuroBasket 2013: Game Eight Scenarios
Today marks game eight in the EuroBasket 2013 Qualifications and with only nine teams assured of spots in the Finals next September in Slovenia, the possible scenarios for which teams are going to grab the last seven spots are complex and many. Here are some possibilities for teams to qualify today… Group A (They play…
Read MoreEuroBasket 2013: Four more qualify, eight to go
Coming in to today’s EuroBasket 2013 Qualifiers four teams had their chance to earn spots, unfortunately, only Germany was able to take advantage, but three more, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Czech Republic, were able to pick up theirs after various losses in and out of Groups assured teams they’d finish no lower than…
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