Ball in Europe – European Basketball Blog

Welcome to another edition of “Best of the (basketball) net,” i.e. how to kill another week’s worth of office time on the internet. Please enjoy the following stories — a real international mix this week — complements of BallinEurope.com.

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Israel’s Nimrod Tishman is coming to University of Florida. In another Israel basketball-related piece, the Sacramento Bee has the story of whatever happened to the professional career of Team Israel’s Amit “Soft and Chunky” Tamir. In case you were wondering.

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Currently, it looks like Jordi Bertomeu is traveling around Europe to discuss and promote the new Euroleague format. The recent addition of a third EL spot for France is one of the results but today we got the news that the partnership between Euroleague Basketball and China will become broader.

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Today, the four quarterfinals of the Olympic men’s basketball tournament saw only one close game. Luckily, I had the opportunity to see at least the second half of this thriller.

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After Germany’s bitter defeat by China it is time to share some of the great pictures of this game. Of course it was not a high scoring game. It was even one of the worst games Team Germany ever had, but it was a fight and had many emotions in it. Being German I hated to see Germany loose, but I rather see a game like that than the most boring game of the Olympics so far: Team USA vs. Spain.

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Day 3 of the Olympic Tournament is over and Team USA, Spain as well as Lithuania are still without any loss. Here are the short stories that we heard around the tournament.

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The first day of the Olympic Men Basketball tournament is history and this night started the 2nd day of the competition. Here are the latest short stories we found around the net.

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Only a few days are left before the Olympic Games start in Beijing. On 8/8/2008 at 8.08, the opening ceremony will be the start of another exciting event. And of course, the basketball tournament will be our main target here at BallinEurope.com.

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Everybody in the basketball world knows Yao Ming and the impact he is having on the NBA. Chinese surfers are the second largest community to check nba.com and Ming is a regular top vote at the NBA All-Star game. Marketing-wise Yao is the man for the NBA.

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The headline just makes sense if you have read the article about Sam Mitchell, coach of the Toronto Raptors. Yao Ming, currently playing at the CBA Euroleague challenge (by the way, follow this event it is great!) for Team China gave euroleague.net his thoughts on European Basketball.

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The Euroleague is about to get better and better. I was lucky enough to attend the Euroleague Final Four in Athens last year so I am really excited to see what else the Euroleague is about to do. Everybody just thinks about the NBA when the Celtics, Raptors and Grizzlies are coming to town but have you noticed the Euroleague logo on the Banner? Well they are playing Euroleague teams. Continue Reading…