December 2007 58
Happy New Year
I would like to wish a Happy New Year to all our readers, but I prefer letting the Euroleague stars do this job for me. Check it out and tell me what is the problem with Lazaros Papadopoulos?
Defining moments for European Basketball
So this is it – 2007 will be officially over in a few hours. But what happened in 2007? I could try to go through the whole year now but I want to summarize what the interesting, funny and sometimes even sad stories that we covered here on BallinEurope since late September 2007. It all […]
Monday cigarettes
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 […]
David Vanterpool anybody?
Does this name ring any bells for you? Yes, David did play of CSKA Moscow last season – well, until he got injured and Oscar Torres (now with UPIM Bologna) replaced him. What is going on with David? Has he signed somewhere we just don’t know? Well, Ettore Messina explains what David is up to.
What a wise guy thinks of today's basketball
Darryl Middleton is probably the oldest professional player in the top European leagues. Just imagine, he has been drafted in 1988 by the Atlanta; a date when Ricky Rubio was not even born. Darryl is blogging for Solobasket.com (in Spanish) and I just checked out a bit what he is telling us.
Are you ready for "El Classico"?
Because tonight will be the eternal match-up between the two Spanish powerhouses, Barcelona versus Real Madrid, or even Catalunya versus Castilla. If you have not done your homework, here are a few interesting facts to be prepared for tonight’s game.
A legend returns to Varese for the last time
This Thursday night, Gianmarco Pozzecco will play his last game of his career in his former home, the PalaWhirlpool of Varese. This is a good reason to come back a bit on his great career as the “bad boy” PG of Italy.
Who wants to be Vitaly Potapenko?
The serious news first: NBA “veteran” Vitaly Potapenko just signed with the Spanish club MMT Estudiantes (Madrid). Is this really worth some news on BallinEurope? Well, of course, since Madrid is in Europe and Vitaly is an NBA LEGEND – yes, this has to be written in capital letters. I remember from my youth team […]
No Holidays in Spain!
I was lucky to get away from Basketball for at least four days. It did get on my nerves a little bit to be honest – well, Basketball here in Italy. I was rather talking to friends from back home, thinking about writing a post with an iPhone .. things like that – as you […]
My wishes for 2008
After Julien already exposed one of his wishes with an European All-Star game, I thought about what I would really like to happen in 2008. Here are a few thoughts (without any order) about what I really would love to see.
X-mas cigarettes
Not a very nice Christmas break for Lucca Staiger as the last decisional level confirmed that he will miss a whole season with Iowa State Delonte Holland seems to be close of finding a new team. The Turkish newspaper Fanatik claims that Fenerbahce is interested in signing him. For all the showtime lovers, this is […]
What´s going on with Big Sofo?
You may all remember Sofoclis Schortsanitis, the big Greek center who destroyed the USA paint with pick-and-roll plays in last year´s world championship. You may have remarked that his playing time with his team Olympiacos has dramatically decreased this year. But there are some news on him.