With six seconds left in a highly entertaining game against Olympiacos, Virtus trailed 94-93. After an Alex Mumbru timeout, the final possession went to Marcus Carr. Virtus does not have many EuroLeague veterans on its roster. Daniel Hackett is the most experienced, but he was not on the floor at the time. Derrick Alston might […]

“Is he injured? Let’s watch him on the bench and see how he’s moving,” Serbian reporters agreed early in the second quarter of Crvena Zvezda’s game against Anadolu Efes. Jared Butler had scored 19 points against Hapoel and 11 against Žalgiris. No player’s decision to stay made Zvezda fans happier this summer. And yet, Butler […]

Partizan will close out the EuroLeague’s first double-round week in Munich, arriving with two wins and confirmation that defense is the most important part of this new team’s game. If some saw what happened against Olimpia Milano as a fluke, the Black and Whites showed in Paris that it was anything but, and that their […]

After ten full years in the NBA, Dario Šarić is back in the EuroLeague. And he has found it considerably different from the competition he left behind. Šarić did not play much in the NBA over the past few years, so he returned to Anadolu Efes hungry for basketball, hungry for a role and hungry […]

“Mike will be coming through here. Please don’t film and put your phones away,” Anadolu Efes staff told us in the hallway of Belgrade Arena. Jordan Loyd and Erkan Yılmaz were there as well, both visibly concerned. “We’ll be there to support him,” Loyd said. “It’s very difficult to see something like that. Everything about […]

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 […]

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 […]