Utah Jazz fans remember how Walker Kessler left the team in early July after a year of drawn-out negotiations over a new contract. Two and a half months later, the Jazz had no interest in finding themselves in a similar situation with Keyonte George. The guard, who was entering the final year of his rookie […]
Last season, Crvena Zvezda looked like a team headed straight for the EuroLeague playoffs. And with good reason, their fans were starting to believe it, too. Instead, the red-and-whites barely made the Play-In, only to see their season end there against Barcelona. Chima Moneke has no desire to see history repeat itself. In an interview […]
Rick Pitino delivered a powerful lesson for the next generation of athletes: “Ego stops greatness.” It is a message that embodies Mamba Mentality and echoes the approach of NBA superstars Giannis Antetokounmpo and Kevin Durant. Rick Pitino has spent a lifetime on the sidelines, working with different generations of players, managing personalities and finding ways […]
Nicolas Batum has brought one of the most significant careers in French basketball history to an end. The 37-year-old announced his retirement on September 21, 2026, two years after making his final appearance for France and winning Olympic silver in Paris. Neither the place nor the date of his announcement was accidental. Rather than Los […]
The 2025 NBA Draft class needed only one season to make its presence felt. Cooper Flagg became Rookie of the Year, Kon Knueppel produced one of the greatest shooting seasons ever by a first-year player and VJ Edgecombe established himself as a genuine two-way building block. Together, the three averaged 55.5 points per game, but […]
Jonas Valanciunas has made a strong start to life at Zalgiris in the Lithuanian league, laying down an early challenge to every centre in Europe. Is the EuroLeague ready for the force at Tomas Masiulis’ disposal? Fourteen NBA seasons, six different jerseys and countless battles against the best big men on the planet. The numbers […]
Jonathan Motley had been on Crvena Zvezda’s radar for a long time. Now, the stars have finally aligned – fittingly, “Zvezda” means “star” in Serbian – and the fans will get to see him in red and white. Motley had an up-and-down season with Hapoel Tel Aviv last year, and he’s hoping that his move […]
The eighth Pavlos Giannakopoulos tournament offered the first answers to what Zeljko Obradovic expects from the new Panathinaikos Aktor. Some nights at the arena make you pay a little less attention to the scoreboard. The eighth Pavlos Giannakopoulos tournament had several such moments. The memory of the club’s late patriarch, the emotion surrounding everything he […]
“I think Butler will fit into the system. We just have to help him get there,” Crvena Zvezda head coach Ibon Navarro said after the win over Aris in the team’s final tune-up before the season officially begins. It’s no secret that Jared Butler hasn’t quite looked like himself during the preseason. But preseason basketball […]
During the Supercopa Endesa, the first major tournament of the Spanish basketball season, the sport found a new way to make history in Badalona. On September 19, a challenge that was as spectacular as it was unusual saw 782 participants come together to play the biggest game of knockout basketball ever and, in the process, […]
Utah Jazz fans remember how Walker Kessler left the team in early July after a year of drawn-out negotiations over a new contract. Two and a half months later, the Jazz had no interest in finding themselves in a similar situation with Keyonte George. The guard, who was entering the final year of his rookie […]
Last season, Crvena Zvezda looked like a team headed straight for the EuroLeague playoffs. And with good reason, their fans were starting to believe it, too. Instead, the red-and-whites barely made the Play-In, only to see their season end there against Barcelona. Chima Moneke has no desire to see history repeat itself. In an interview […]
Rick Pitino delivered a powerful lesson for the next generation of athletes: “Ego stops greatness.” It is a message that embodies Mamba Mentality and echoes the approach of NBA superstars Giannis Antetokounmpo and Kevin Durant. Rick Pitino has spent a lifetime on the sidelines, working with different generations of players, managing personalities and finding ways […]
Nicolas Batum has brought one of the most significant careers in French basketball history to an end. The 37-year-old announced his retirement on September 21, 2026, two years after making his final appearance for France and winning Olympic silver in Paris. Neither the place nor the date of his announcement was accidental. Rather than Los […]
The Supercopa Endesa, the first official tournament of the season in Spanish basketball, has produced several major storylines. First and foremost was Joventut Badalona’s triumph, with the historic club —widely regarded as one of the country’s leading talent factories— lifting a trophy for the first time since 2008. That year, Joventut won both the Copa […]
While the EuroLeague was staging its inaugural Super Cup, several countries held their own domestic Super Cups. Spain was among them, with the tournament going ahead in a normal schedule thanks to Real Madrid’s failure to qualify. The spanish powerhouse took part —and won— the continental Supercup, postponing a potential scheduling conflict for at least […]
The 2025 NBA Draft class needed only one season to make its presence felt. Cooper Flagg became Rookie of the Year, Kon Knueppel produced one of the greatest shooting seasons ever by a first-year player and VJ Edgecombe established himself as a genuine two-way building block. Together, the three averaged 55.5 points per game, but […]
Rick Pitino delivered a powerful lesson for the next generation of athletes: “Ego stops greatness.” It is a message that embodies Mamba Mentality and echoes the approach of NBA superstars Giannis Antetokounmpo and Kevin Durant. Rick Pitino has spent a lifetime on the sidelines, working with different generations of players, managing personalities and finding ways […]
Utah Jazz fans remember how Walker Kessler left the team in early July after a year of drawn-out negotiations over a new contract. Two and a half months later, the Jazz had no interest in finding themselves in a similar situation with Keyonte George. The guard, who was entering the final year of his rookie […]
The Supercopa Endesa, the first official tournament of the season in Spanish basketball, has produced several major storylines. First and foremost was Joventut Badalona’s triumph, with the historic club —widely regarded as one of the country’s leading talent factories— lifting a trophy for the first time since 2008. That year, Joventut won both the Copa […]
While the EuroLeague was staging its inaugural Super Cup, several countries held their own domestic Super Cups. Spain was among them, with the tournament going ahead in a normal schedule thanks to Real Madrid’s failure to qualify. The spanish powerhouse took part —and won— the continental Supercup, postponing a potential scheduling conflict for at least […]
The 2025 NBA Draft class needed only one season to make its presence felt. Cooper Flagg became Rookie of the Year, Kon Knueppel produced one of the greatest shooting seasons ever by a first-year player and VJ Edgecombe established himself as a genuine two-way building block. Together, the three averaged 55.5 points per game, but […]
Jonas Valanciunas has made a strong start to life at Zalgiris in the Lithuanian league, laying down an early challenge to every centre in Europe. Is the EuroLeague ready for the force at Tomas Masiulis’ disposal? Fourteen NBA seasons, six different jerseys and countless battles against the best big men on the planet. The numbers […]
Jonathan Motley had been on Crvena Zvezda’s radar for a long time. Now, the stars have finally aligned – fittingly, “Zvezda” means “star” in Serbian – and the fans will get to see him in red and white. Motley had an up-and-down season with Hapoel Tel Aviv last year, and he’s hoping that his move […]
Several hours before JL Bourg took on Panathinaikos at T-Center Athens in the Pavlos Giannakopoulos Tournament, Frederic Fauthoux sat down with SKWEEK at a particularly interesting moment for both the club he coaches and the national team he leads. Bourg arrived in Athens as the reigning EuroCup champion, only a few months removed from the […]
