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Behaving like SUCH an AMERICAN
Us Europeans already do have their thoughts on American players – look, “some guy” even admits it: All they want is to come over, not work and get nice paychecks. For those who aren’t familiar with our “sometimes” ironic style – please notice the irony in the following sentences.. Now we actually have an American […]
Euroleague Top8: Tau Vitoria
Probably the funniest preview comes from Maku. We are really proud to have a blog where we can posts things like that – take a look! I got this preview from Maku last week: Doubts arise in Vitoria, now that we get close to the last stages of competition. After giving a bad image on […]
How to win in 2 seconds: put 6 guys on the floor!
After we talked already about how to win a game in 0.2 seconds or how to lose it because of stupidity, we have got this incredible video of the third German league.
Euroleague Top8: CSKA Moscow
Julien Debove, who wrote alot about European basketball for BallinEurope and also is co-founder of the french Basketball magazine REVERSE, gives us his unique view of what the lonely Final Four favorite CSKA Moscow will do at the Top8: With Panathinaikos and Real Madrid both in the closet, you’d think CSKA would have a free […]
Monday's cigarettes
Here are the words from the street and the smoke from the café’s that will keep you informed about the upcoming decisive week in European basketball.
Albert Schweitzer Tournament: the Final day
Yesterday was the final day of this year’s edition of the Albert Schweitzer Tournament. The tournament which has been played for the first time 50 years ago as “European H.S. Tournament” has become the big rendez-vous for all U18 National teams even if the level of this year’s edition was not the highest one because […]
Euroleague Top8: Olympiakos Piraeus
Another friend of BallinEurope, Akilas, has been sending in stuff about Olympiakos the whole season long. Sometimes I wish I would speak more Greek (haha – I don’t at all..) to read what Akilas has to say on his blog – to me it looks like good stuff. But was does he think about Olympiakos’ […]
Marcus Sloan: Easter Bunny, Deodorant & PRACTICE
Sorry it’s taken me a little bit to get back to you guys, but I had busy week. I got a chance to go home for Easter, and had a great time I also found
Euroleague Top8: Montepaschi Siena
Next up is Dario Marra from basketcentral.it with his prediction for Siena. Watch out for Siena – I know – not it is easy to say – but Mario has always been telling us that this years’ team is special. I guess we just did not want to listen since we all thought – yeah […]
Euroleague Top8: FC AXA Barcelona
Jaime Martinez Lafargue gets the honor to let us know what he thinks about FC Barcelona’s games against Maccabi Tel Aviv. Why? Well Jaime is the #1 prediction man of BallinEurope – although he is the man at solobasket.com. Here is what Jaime predicts: Maccabi should win this series by 2-1. They managed to grow […]
Nike Hoop Summit
The organizers of the Nike Hoop Summit announced this week the rosters for the World Select team that will play against the best High School players of the United States in Portland the 12th April.
Euroleague Top8 tickets for free!
I almost forgot – we still do have tickets for the Euroelague top8 games ready for you to pick up! Anybody want them? Only things is that you have to be in on of the Top8 teams’ cities. If you want 2 free tickets, post a comment why you are the one to deserve them […]