Nikola Rakocevic leaves Spain for Slovakia

Nikola Rakocevic (191 cm, G) is finally leaving Spain. The Montenegrin guard has played in Spain since 2006-07. First, in the junior team of Real Madrid and after that for numerous Spanish teams ranging from the ACB (1st tier) to the EBA (4th tier). Now he has signed with MBK Banik Handlova from Slovakia. That…

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Filip Pejovic deals with Handlova

Filip Pejovic (189 cm, Erskine’12) has decided to join up with MBK Handlova in the Slovakian SBL for the rest of the 2016/2017 campaign. The Serbian is well known in the Slovakian top flight and has played in the league since 2015. So far this season, Filip Pejovic has played for SPU Nitra in the…

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Pedja Stamenkovic added by Handlova

Pedja Stamenkovic (190 cm) has agreed to terms on a deal to play for MBK Handlova (Slovakia-SBL) this 2017. Stamenkovic is a 28-year-old Serbian player who was a former member of Serbia’s U20 national squad. He began the season playing for Trefl Sopot from the Polish TBL. He logged 13 games for the Polish club,…

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Cameron Wright joins MBK Handlova

Cameron Wright (195 cm, Pittsburgh’15) has agreed to terms on a deal to play for MBK Handlova (Slovakia-SBL) this coming 2016-17 season. In his rookie season last 2015-16.Wright headed to Europe after his release from the Canton Charge of the NBA D-League in November 2015. Cameron found a new home with Jindrichuv Hradec (Czech Republic-NBL),…

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Josh Crawford leaves MBK Handlova

American big man Josh Crawford (211 cm, Indiana State’11) is leaving MBK Handlova ( (Slovakia-SBL). He has logged only two games for them and was able to average 9.5 ppg and 4.5 rpg. Joshua Crawford has previously played in Spain, Bulgaria, the Dominican Republic and Israel since leaving Indiana State in 2010.

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Luka Petkovic inks with Handlova

MBK Handlova (Slovakia-SBL) has acquired the services of Croatian player Luka Petkovic (190 cm) to reinforce their backcourt this 2014-15. Petkovic played for three teams in 2013-14. He began the season on the roster of GKK Sibenik (Croatia-A1), but played only one game where he managed to tally 13 points and four assists. Luka then…

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Preston Purifoy newcomer at MBK Handlova

Preston Purifoy (196 cm, UAB’14 ) is the  newcomer at  MBK Handlova (Slovakia-Superleague). The 22-year old American forward played at the Universityof Alabama-Birmingham in Conference USA. In his 23 games as a senior he averaged only 1.6 ppg, while that number was 7.7 ppg in his junior season. MBK Handlova started the season with a…

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Anthony 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.

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