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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
The name printed on the back of a jersey is not always inherited. For some basketball players, it represents childhood, religion, heritage or even a message they want to share with the world. A surname usually helps identify the player wearing the jersey. In some cases, however, the name becomes part of a much deeper […]
From adidas’ ambitious experiment and LeBron James’ infamous outburst to the Cavaliers’ 2016 championship and Panathinaikos’ distinctive uniforms: How short-sleeved jerseys entered basketball and why they have almost completely disappeared. Looking back at the Cleveland Cavaliers’ celebration after winning the 2016 NBA championship, one detail now seems almost unusual. LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and their […]
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 […]
One of the main attractions of the inaugural EuroLeague Super Cup was the opportunity to assess the impact of Pedro Martínez’s arrival as Real Madrid head coach. The 65-year-old veteran, a highly respected figure in Spanish basketball but now coaching one of the country’s two traditional powerhouses for the first time, has spent recent years […]
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, […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
One of the main attractions of the inaugural EuroLeague Super Cup was the opportunity to assess the impact of Pedro Martínez’s arrival as Real Madrid head coach. The 65-year-old veteran, a highly respected figure in Spanish basketball but now coaching one of the country’s two traditional powerhouses for the first time, has spent recent years […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
European basketball is entering a season in which the traditional relationship between sporting success, financial power and access to the continent’s elite is being tested like never before. Few clubs find themselves closer to the centre of that debate than JL Bourg. After reaching the EuroCup final in 2024, the French club went one step […]
