Three EuroLeague games… and three defeats. That is the current record of the reigning runners-up in the competition, a team expected to win every time it takes the floor. Three road trips to Dubai Basketball, Anadolu Efes and Hapoel Tel Aviv have raised the first questions about Pedro Martínez’s project at Real Madrid, as it […]
Jonas Valanciunas needs no introduction, and one night in Kaunas certainly does not change what we know about a player with his pedigree. Olympiacos, however, gave him an early taste of what it means to face the reigning European champions and just how demanding life in the EuroLeague can be when an opponent is capable […]
The American guard’s injury overshadowed Anadolu Efes’ loss to Crvena Zvezda and has raised serious concerns about his condition. The extent of the injury and how long he will be out remain unknown. The EuroLeague has grown accustomed to revolving around Mike James. Now it must imagine what comes next without one of its most […]
Two unbeaten teams, two very different routes to 2-0 and a game in Istanbul that will leave only one of them with a perfect record. Fenerbahce and Dubai face each other on Friday (02/10, 20:45) in the Class of the Titans matchup of Round 3 in the EuroLeague. Fenerbahce needed some time to find its […]
Patty Mills has spent enough time at the highest level of basketball for very few things to genuinely feel new anymore, but his first weeks as a EuroLeague player have placed him in exactly that position, introducing the 38-year-old Australian to a competition, basketball culture and kind of pressure that he had previously experienced only […]
EuroLeague Round 2 is in the books. There is not much time to catch our breath in the middle of the season’s first double-round week, but Round 2 gave us plenty worth discussing. Six teams are 2-0. Six are 0-2. We saw some eye-catching numbers – individual and team – and two Round 3 games […]
Crvena Zvezda have started their EuroLeague season with back-to-back home losses. In that situation, plenty of coaches would become more combative with the media. Others would reduce their answers to the bare minimum. There have been examples of both in Belgrade before. Ibon Navarro has chosen a third path. Navarro has remained relaxed, good-humored and […]
Two complete performances, two Partizan wins and an MVP award: Carlik Jones is making an emphatic EuroLeague reintroduction, backing up his words about where he believes he belongs among the competition’s elite. Questions about Partizan’s quality and readiness followed Joan Peñarroya’s team into the opening tip of the season, largely because of the delays in […]
There are glitches that annoy you, there are glitches that make you laugh, and then there are those that go down in history. NBA 2K12 gave players one of the most bizarre moments we have ever seen in a sports video game, when Barack Obama suddenly appeared on the bench of an NBA team as… […]
In the EuroCup, the focus usually falls on the teams chasing the trophy and the players we already know. Look a little deeper, though, and you will find names who are still at an early stage of their journey and could become much more familiar to the European basketball audience by the end of the […]
Three EuroLeague games… and three defeats. That is the current record of the reigning runners-up in the competition, a team expected to win every time it takes the floor. Three road trips to Dubai Basketball, Anadolu Efes and Hapoel Tel Aviv have raised the first questions about Pedro Martínez’s project at Real Madrid, as it […]
The American guard’s injury overshadowed Anadolu Efes’ loss to Crvena Zvezda and has raised serious concerns about his condition. The extent of the injury and how long he will be out remain unknown. The EuroLeague has grown accustomed to revolving around Mike James. Now it must imagine what comes next without one of its most […]
Two unbeaten teams, two very different routes to 2-0 and a game in Istanbul that will leave only one of them with a perfect record. Fenerbahce and Dubai face each other on Friday (02/10, 20:45) in the Class of the Titans matchup of Round 3 in the EuroLeague. Fenerbahce needed some time to find its […]
Jonas Valanciunas needs no introduction, and one night in Kaunas certainly does not change what we know about a player with his pedigree. Olympiacos, however, gave him an early taste of what it means to face the reigning European champions and just how demanding life in the EuroLeague can be when an opponent is capable […]
Patty Mills has spent enough time at the highest level of basketball for very few things to genuinely feel new anymore, but his first weeks as a EuroLeague player have placed him in exactly that position, introducing the 38-year-old Australian to a competition, basketball culture and kind of pressure that he had previously experienced only […]
EuroLeague Round 2 is in the books. There is not much time to catch our breath in the middle of the season’s first double-round week, but Round 2 gave us plenty worth discussing. Six teams are 2-0. Six are 0-2. We saw some eye-catching numbers – individual and team – and two Round 3 games […]
Crvena Zvezda have started their EuroLeague season with back-to-back home losses. In that situation, plenty of coaches would become more combative with the media. Others would reduce their answers to the bare minimum. There have been examples of both in Belgrade before. Ibon Navarro has chosen a third path. Navarro has remained relaxed, good-humored and […]
Two unbeaten teams, two very different routes to 2-0 and a game in Istanbul that will leave only one of them with a perfect record. Fenerbahce and Dubai face each other on Friday (02/10, 20:45) in the Class of the Titans matchup of Round 3 in the EuroLeague. Fenerbahce needed some time to find its […]
Patty Mills has spent enough time at the highest level of basketball for very few things to genuinely feel new anymore, but his first weeks as a EuroLeague player have placed him in exactly that position, introducing the 38-year-old Australian to a competition, basketball culture and kind of pressure that he had previously experienced only […]
EuroLeague Round 2 is in the books. There is not much time to catch our breath in the middle of the season’s first double-round week, but Round 2 gave us plenty worth discussing. Six teams are 2-0. Six are 0-2. We saw some eye-catching numbers – individual and team – and two Round 3 games […]
Crvena Zvezda have started their EuroLeague season with back-to-back home losses. In that situation, plenty of coaches would become more combative with the media. Others would reduce their answers to the bare minimum. There have been examples of both in Belgrade before. Ibon Navarro has chosen a third path. Navarro has remained relaxed, good-humored and […]
Two complete performances, two Partizan wins and an MVP award: Carlik Jones is making an emphatic EuroLeague reintroduction, backing up his words about where he believes he belongs among the competition’s elite. Questions about Partizan’s quality and readiness followed Joan Peñarroya’s team into the opening tip of the season, largely because of the delays in […]
There are glitches that annoy you, there are glitches that make you laugh, and then there are those that go down in history. NBA 2K12 gave players one of the most bizarre moments we have ever seen in a sports video game, when Barack Obama suddenly appeared on the bench of an NBA team as… […]
In the EuroCup, the focus usually falls on the teams chasing the trophy and the players we already know. Look a little deeper, though, and you will find names who are still at an early stage of their journey and could become much more familiar to the European basketball audience by the end of the […]
Basketball’s global expansion is usually measured in familiar ways: television audiences, sponsorships, salaries, sold-out arenas, new leagues and the increasingly aggressive battle for players and markets. TJ Bullock is interested in a different set of numbers. At 34, after ten years within the FIBA ecosystem and now as Head of the FIBA Foundation, Bullock oversees […]
