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25 Euroleague teams in NBA 2k15
NBA 2K15 will feature 11 additional teams from the Turkish Airlines Euroleague, including FC Bayern Munich of Germany, JSF Nanterre of France, Galatasaray Liv Hospital Istanbul of Turkey and Partizan NIS Belgrade of Serbia, bringing the total number of playable Euroleague teams to 25, including every team that participated in the 2013-14 Turkish Airlines Euroleague. […]
Basketball Ireland wins inclusion award
BiE is on site in Milano but back at our base in Ireland, there was big news for Basketball Ireland. Emmet Ryan reports. Basketball Ireland has received the CARA National Inclusion award for its work with people with physical disabilities. The governing body of basketball in Ireland won the National Governing Body award at the […]
What do we want Euroleague to be?
It’s the broadest of questions but one that relates to so much that we see on and off the court. Just what should Euroleague be? With the Final Four tipping off tonight, Emmet Ryan gives his thoughts. Is it the Champions League of basketball or the NBA of Europe? For most of its modern existence, […]
Pullen: Pascual has taught me a lot
Ballineurope’s Emmet Ryan caught up with Brad Oleseon, Erazem Lorbek, Jacob Pullen, and Joey Dorsey of FC Barcelona at Thursday’s Final Four practice. “They are a very dangerous team in transition. When they get out in transition they get confidence and make threes,” Brad Oleson told BallinEurope.com. He made the comments at Thursday’s practice ahead […]
Devin Smith: “We can compete with anybody”
Devin Smith of Maccabi Tel Aviv spoke with BallinEurope’s Emmet Ryan ahead of Friday’s Euroleague semi final with CSKA Moscow. Devin Smith told Ballineurope.com that he was confident in Maccabi’s shooting options ahead of their clash with CSKA but that the team as a whole needs to succeed more on the glass. “We have different […]
Jackson: “It’s all business”
BallinEurope’s Emmet Ryan caught up with CSKA Moscow’s Aaron Jackson at Thursdwy’s practice in Milano to get his thoughts on Friday night’s big game. “Since we got here it’s all business. This year we communicated much better about the pressure [on us]. We knew who had pressure but we didn’t communicate well. Now we know […]
BiE in Milano: And the winners are…
It was awards day in Milano and Chacho took the big one. Sergio Rodriguez of Real Madrid was name Euroleague MVP for the 2013/14 season. Rodrigruez and his team mate Rudy Fernandez were named to the team of the season along with Keith Langford of EA7 Milano, Ante Tomic of FC Barcelona, and Sonny Weems […]
BiE’s official Irish awards ballot
BallinEurope editor Emmet Ryan is voting in this year’s Irish Premier League awards. Here’s who BiE is voting for and why. Men’s MVP – Michael Bonaparte, Killester This was absolute murder. Bonaparte had 23 ppg, 4th in the league, ranked 10th in rebounds and 9th in blocks for the league champions. Staring him down directly […]
Swee’ Pea makes the cut – Reaches Funding Target
A couple of weeks ago we introduced you to a Kickstarter to help fund a documentary on streetball legend Lloyd ‘Swee’ Pea’ Daniels. Here’s the trailer: Just yesterday we tweeted you, the BiE faithful, to help get this movie over the finish line. At the time it still needed another $12,400 to reach it’s total. […]
The Dish – Too Rude for Masai Uijiri
It’s been a long and busy week in Basketball for Europe’s top teams and players and tonight we could see even more drama. Let’s get you set for another wild week of playoff action in Euroleague and the NBA. As fearlessly predicted by BiE Barcelona got the brooms out against Galatasaray. While the Istanbul club […]
The BBL experience – Rowdy in Frankfurt
BiE’s editor headed to Frankfurt to catch a supposedly nothing game between Fraport Skyliners and medi Bayreuth on Sunday. It was 11th vs 15th, the atmosphere was like a playoff spot was at stake. The stakes could hardly have been lower. Fraport Skyliners were all but eliminated from the playoffs and medi Bayreuth only faced […]
Fearless predictions: Euroleague playoffs
BallinEurope only went 6 of 8 in picking the teams to make the post-season and one of those sides we didn’t have faith in won’t be happy with how we see the playoffs shaping up. It’s fearless prediction time. Barcelona vs Galatasaray Pick: Barca in 3. So we didn’t think Galatasaray would make it this […]