BallinEurope, the European Basketball news site

Our friend Hippo from Finland sent us this interesting story about a documentary movie on Finnish basketball. But let Hippo explain exactly what it is about. Continue Reading…

The Eurobasket 2009 qualifiers have started really poorly for coach Recalcati’s Team Italy. After four losses in the first five games, the situation was pretty bad but without going for incredible results, Italy is back in the race for Poland.

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BallinEurope has established a list of all National Champions in the various European leagues as they are known so far. If you have results to add or know who was named Final MVPs in a European league, feel free to add this in the comments so that we can update the list.

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• After the much commented Kerry Gibson story, it is good to see that there are also Americans that adapt well and are happy to play in such strange places as Lappeenranta, Finland
• Omri Casspi, one of the top prospects in Europe, has a dad that is a little bit too much into the development of his son
• After having demolished Real Madrid in "El Classico" this week, Barcelona got hammered by Vive Menorca this Sunday. Up and down…
• The French All-Star game this Saturday was the worst one I ever saw. At least, some of the dunks of the Contest were good
• Signing frenzy in Germany: Kimani Ffriend to Brose Baskets, Chad Prewitt comes back to Artland Dragons, Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje extends his contract with Oldenburg and Jason Miller signed with Jena
• After having beat Spain during Eurobasket with a big 3, Marko Tomas wins it again, but this time in traffic
• You know 1-on-1, you know 2-on-2, or even Streetball 3-on-3 action? If so, in Berlin was this weekend the final of the German 4-on-4 challenge
• The French LNB League is celebrating its 20th anniversary. And they just published a Top 10 of the best blocks of the Finals history. I hope they come up with more…

If you follow the NBA you have heard that Scottie tried to make a comeback around February this year with a NBA team. It was the rumor that the Lakers, Cavaliers, Nuggets and even the Spurs had shown interest in Pippen. By now we know nobody gave him a chance. Continue Reading…

Did you know that Drew Gooden was half-finnish? So he could play as Bosman A in Europe and there will probably be offers from potential financial teams. In fact, Drew was born of a Californian Dad and a Finnish mother while his father was playing professional basketball in Europe. Continue Reading…

Yesterday, I got a mail from my friend Hippo from Finland who follows closely the evolution of Trailblazers Draftee Petteri Koponen. The guard, actually playing for the Finnish top team Honka Playboys, will enter the Finnish army this fall. Continue Reading…