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Euroleague round 4: Real Madrid beats Cantu for the first time in 37 years.
Round 4 of the Euroleague did not really bring any shocking results. However, the young team of Partizan was close to upsetting Barcelona at home. Turkish Anadolu Efes booked an important win on the road against Spanish Caja Laboral Vitoria after trailing by 18 points! Home team Caja Laboral scored only 16 points in the…
Read MoreAfter turning down $55 million, James Harden gets $80 million
The Houston Rockets landed their star player after all, but it came at a hefty price. Shooting guard James Harden has agreed to sign a five-year, $80 million extension with Houston before tonight’s 11:59 ET deadline. Harden, the regining NBA Sixth Man of the Year and an Olympic gold medalist, was traded from the Oklahoma…
Read MoreRecord-tying 84 foreign players on NBA rosters
Opening-night rosters for the 2012-13 NBA season feature a record-tying 84 international players, previously set in 2010-11, from 37 countries and territories. The opening-night record for countries and territories is 38, and was also set in the 2010-11 season. Twenty-nine of the 30 teams feature at least one international player. The San Antonio Spurs have…
Read MoreNBA Set to Tip Off 67th Season
The NBA is set to tip off its 67th season today with the first three contests of the 2012-13 campaign; the Cleveland Cavaliers will host the Washington Wizards, the Los Angeles Lakers will entertain the Dallas Mavericks and the 2011-12 Champion Miami Heat will square off with the Boston Celtics in Miami. The landscape of…
Read MoreMaccabi Tel-Aviv Stunned at Home by Rishon
The last time Maccabi Tel-Aviv lost a game to an Israel team was on January 30, 2012 when they dropped an Israel Winners League context to Maccabi Ashdod, 78-74. They went 23-2 in the league last year and had a 22 game winning streak against Israel teams as of yesterday. On Sunday, Maccabi Rishon Lezion…
Read MoreHarden turns down $52m – traded to Rockets
The Oklahoma City Thunder, 2011-12 NBA Finals Runner-up, lost hope in working out a contract extension with shooting guard James Harden and sent him and three others to the Houston Rockets in exchange for two players and three high draft picks on Saturday. With the trade deadline quickly approaching, the Thunder did what they had…
Read MoreEuroleague: Unicaja takes thriller from Siena
On a day of Euroleague blow out games, those that waited for the last contest on the schedule were treated with a barnburner in Spain when Unicaja Malaga erased an 14-point in the fourth quarter and denied Montepaschi Siena their first win of the 2012-13 Euroleague season in an overtime thriller. In other Friday games,…
Read MoreEuroleague Round 3: Four Remain Undefeated
Eight squads came into Round 3 of Euroleague 2012-13 play with 2-0 records. After Thursday’s eight games, four of those teams suffered their first losses, with two of them coming on their home courts – EA7 Emporio Armani Milan falling to previously winless Caja Laboral Vitoria by 10 at the Milan Mediolanum Forum, and Fenerbahce…
Read MoreGrizzlies Sale Unanimously Approved by NBA’s Finance Committee
The NBA Finance Committee meet yesterday in New York as part of the two-day Board of Governors meetings; as a key topic, the sale of the Memphis Grizzlies from current owner Michael Heisley to an investors group lead by Robert Pera. The Committee unanimously approved the sale to Pera’s group, which includes such big names…
Read MoreFIBA and ESPN sign Multi-Year Broadcast Deal
GENEVA, Switzerland (TV) – FIBA and ESPN today announced a multi-year, multi-platform (TV, internet, and mobile) agreement, which includes the rights to more than 400 games across six tournaments from 2013-2015. The agreement covers the FIBA Americas Championships (2013, 2015), the EuroBaskets (2013, 2015), the FIBA Basketball World Cup (2014) and the FIBA World Championship for Women…
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