Paris Basketball has once again chosen a young coach and opened the door to Euroleague basketball for him. As with Tiago Splitter, the club has hired an NBA assistant who will now be allowed to run his own team, build an identity and perhaps put himself in position for a return to the league in […]
Jonas Valančiūnas is coming back to European basketball after more than 1,000 NBA games and 14 seasons, most of them spent as a starting center. He is not returning to Lithuania as a familiar name that no longer lives up to its reputation. Valančiūnas played 65 games for Denver last season and remained a useful […]
There are nights when everything goes wrong. You miss the bus, drop your coffee, and your phone battery dies. But then there is the night the Los Angeles Lakers had in Cleveland on February 5, 2014. A night where the team almost ran out of… people. The Lakers had traveled with just eight available players, […]
Mario Hezonja’s summer has turned into one of the wildest stories of the European basketball offseason. Every few days, his future seems to take another dramatic turn, with suspense continuing to build. SKWEEK takes a chronological look at the entire saga involving Real Madrid, Dubai BC, Anadolu Efes, Olympiacos, the NBA and several unexpected developments. […]
Victor Wembanyama will be the cover star of NBA 2K27, and SKWEEK takes a look back at the game’s iconic covers and the evolution of its legendary cover athletes. “Wemby” has become one of the hottest names in basketball, and NBA 2K has rewarded his meteoric rise by making him the face of its latest […]
Trent Forrest has officially joined Fenerbahce and now aims to become the new floor general of the Turkish powerhouse. The agreement between the 28-year-old guard and the Turkish champions had been rumored for quite some time before it finally became official a few days ago. Fenerbahce handed him a three-year deal (2+1, to be precise), […]
There are cities where basketball is a sport. And then there’s Bologna, where it’s deeply rooted in the city’s identity and culture. And yet, one of its greatest basketball stories was not born under the lights of PalaMalaguti or PalaDozza. It took shape on a basketball court hidden among the trees of a public park […]
Andre Ingram is one of the most unique stories in the NBA. After ten years in the G League, never giving up on his dream, he signed a contract with the Los Angeles Lakers at the age of 32 for the final two games of the 2017-18 season. On April 10, 2018, against the Houston […]
When Kerr Kriisa signed with Tartu in late June, he returned to the city where his basketball career had begun before taking him to Žalgiris, Arizona and the larger stage of American college basketball. After six years at universities in the United States, he was going back to his hometown club. He announced it with […]
Many times we focus all our attention on what the Greek teams are building, or at least the… powerhouses of Europe (Real, Fener, etc.). Many times, however, we miss significant moves by teams that are theoretically inferior or at least less attractive than them. One of these underrated teams is Zalgiris from the -usually- freezing- […]
Paris Basketball has once again chosen a young coach and opened the door to Euroleague basketball for him. As with Tiago Splitter, the club has hired an NBA assistant who will now be allowed to run his own team, build an identity and perhaps put himself in position for a return to the league in […]
Jonas Valančiūnas is coming back to European basketball after more than 1,000 NBA games and 14 seasons, most of them spent as a starting center. He is not returning to Lithuania as a familiar name that no longer lives up to its reputation. Valančiūnas played 65 games for Denver last season and remained a useful […]
There are nights when everything goes wrong. You miss the bus, drop your coffee, and your phone battery dies. But then there is the night the Los Angeles Lakers had in Cleveland on February 5, 2014. A night where the team almost ran out of… people. The Lakers had traveled with just eight available players, […]
Can an algorithm identify the next superstar before anyone else? Can data uncover a hidden gem that traditional scouting overlooked? In today’s basketball landscape, the answer is increasingly yes. Who is Who Clutch Data is a basketball consultancy that helps basketball organizations make better decisions through customized, data-driven insights. The company was founded in 2022 […]
The debate around Pedro Martinez’s arrival in Madrid says far more about old narratives, identity politics, and basketball tribalism than it does about the coach himself. Real Madrid are taking a gamble, but probably not the one most people think. When the Spanish powerhouse decided to replace Sergio Scariolo with Pedro Martinez, the reaction was […]
“It didn’t end the way I dreamed it would.” With that sentence, Aleksej Pokusevski summed up his two years at Partizan, the club he had supported since childhood. His return to Belgrade did not become the story many expected. That does not mean his story is over. At 24, Pokusevski still possesses the rare combination […]
Mario Hezonja’s summer has turned into one of the wildest stories of the European basketball offseason. Every few days, his future seems to take another dramatic turn, with suspense continuing to build. SKWEEK takes a chronological look at the entire saga involving Real Madrid, Dubai BC, Anadolu Efes, Olympiacos, the NBA and several unexpected developments. […]
Can an algorithm identify the next superstar before anyone else? Can data uncover a hidden gem that traditional scouting overlooked? In today’s basketball landscape, the answer is increasingly yes. Who is Who Clutch Data is a basketball consultancy that helps basketball organizations make better decisions through customized, data-driven insights. The company was founded in 2022 […]
There are nights when everything goes wrong. You miss the bus, drop your coffee, and your phone battery dies. But then there is the night the Los Angeles Lakers had in Cleveland on February 5, 2014. A night where the team almost ran out of… people. The Lakers had traveled with just eight available players, […]
Paris Basketball has once again chosen a young coach and opened the door to Euroleague basketball for him. As with Tiago Splitter, the club has hired an NBA assistant who will now be allowed to run his own team, build an identity and perhaps put himself in position for a return to the league in […]
Mario Hezonja’s summer has turned into one of the wildest stories of the European basketball offseason. Every few days, his future seems to take another dramatic turn, with suspense continuing to build. SKWEEK takes a chronological look at the entire saga involving Real Madrid, Dubai BC, Anadolu Efes, Olympiacos, the NBA and several unexpected developments. […]
“It didn’t end the way I dreamed it would.” With that sentence, Aleksej Pokusevski summed up his two years at Partizan, the club he had supported since childhood. His return to Belgrade did not become the story many expected. That does not mean his story is over. At 24, Pokusevski still possesses the rare combination […]
On May 10, 2007, Barack Obama had not yet become President of the United States. Novak Djokovic had not won a Grand Slam title. Instagram did not exist. Luka Dončić was eight years old. That same day, 19-year-old Sergio Llull signed with Real Madrid. Nearly two decades later, he has extended his contract for one […]
Trent Forrest has officially joined Fenerbahce and now aims to become the new floor general of the Turkish powerhouse. The agreement between the 28-year-old guard and the Turkish champions had been rumored for quite some time before it finally became official a few days ago. Fenerbahce handed him a three-year deal (2+1, to be precise), […]
Cedi Osman is preparing for the next chapter of his career with PAOK, and at SKWEEK we decided to let artificial intelligence weigh in. As became official a few days ago, the Thessaloniki club pulled off one of the biggest moves of the summer by signing the former NBA forward. Osman asked Panathinaikos to facilitate […]
