Olympiacos Piraeus 62
Monday’s cigarettes
Here we go for the next round of cigarettes from all around Europe.
Cabezas the savior and Childress homesick (or not?)
With the NBA playoffs at full speed in the conference finals, the playoffs in various European domestic leagues are in their decisive phase, too. And the nerves of players and fans are on edge right now, as you can see through our short notes on what has happened during the past few days.
Jeremy Tyler to Olympiacos?
We’ve already discussed 17-year-old high school kid Jeremy Tyler, who wants to play in Europe for two years in order to prepare himself for the NBA. Originally, he was put in contact with teams in Spain, Italy and Israel. But today, the New York Times published an article reporting that the man who arranged the […]
Euroleague Final Four: The game for third place
The game for third place in the Euroleague Final Four has been dominated by FC Barcelona against a no-intensity Olympiacos team playing without Josh Childress and Jannero Pargo. The atmosphere was not really good in the arena besides the few moments where both Greek fan groups started their chants against each other. After the game, […]
Euroleague Final Four: Olympiacos fans
Sitting just in front of the Olympiacos fans, I can hear them still going on with their fan songs in my ears. To let you know what I am talking about, check the videos below of the amazing Red fans and how they support their team.
Euroleague Final Four preview: Olympiacos Piraeus
As regular season preview writer Akilas is not available these days because of business issues, we asked David Hein to give us his opinion about Olympiacos’ chances during the Final Four in Berlin. Read on for the interesting piece that David prepared for you.
Euroleague Final Four: the expert view
Before the Euroleague season started, we asked experts from all around the continent to give us their opinions about their home country’s team(s). They also had to predict the regular-season record of their team and which four teams would reach the Final Four. So it’s time to check the results and see who the über-expert […]
Yarone's Playoff joints (Round 1)
After a long rest due to Interpol checking into the legality of the Joints published on BIE, the most tiring piece of text on this blog is back, and no better timing than the quarterfinals. With all due respect to the handball match that went on in Moscow, the Game 1 joints will focus on […]
My Euroleague Playoff Tuesday
The Euroleague playoffs began this Tuesday and despite having practice during the evening, I tried to blog my playoff night as it happened. So the evening started in Moscow, of course, with the playoff opener in a tournament that is finally played in best-of-five mode.
Childress out – Marbury in?
Yes, exactly! I was kind of overwhelmed to read that Olympiacos is thinking about Stephon Marbury of the New York Knicks to fill the gap that Josh Childress literally ‘tore’ into the team from Athens. As reported on Eurobasket.com, Childress had surgery yesterday morning in Philadelphia to repair a tear in his abdominal muscle. This […]
Weekend Joints – Part I
The best moment of the week With less than a minute to go and Maccabi up by a double-digit margin over the multi-million team of Olympiacos, Nokia Arena became the place to be. 11,000 Maccabi fans started to sing from the bottom of their lungs to one of the players on the floor, but it […]
Open letter to Bill Simmons and America
After checking out the Unicaja-Olympiacos match and witnessing yet another stellar performance from my compatriot Josh Childress, i was moved enough, as all sports-worshiping Americans eventually do at some point in our lives, to whip off an email to The Sports Guy, ESPN.com’s Bill Simmons. Since he’ll never publish it, we’ll run it here, too. […]