August 2008 48
After the Olympics: What's the future of Lithuania?
After having talked about the future of the Greek National team, today we’re going to analyze the current situation in the Lithuanian national team.
After the Olympics: What's the future of Greece?
The Olympic Games 2008 are history but the next basketball events for the national teams are just around the corner: Eurobasket 2009, World Championships 2010 and of course London 2012. BallinEurope.com takes a look at the current situation of Europe’s Olympic participants and gives an outlook into their future. To start, we are analyzing the […]
Rumor of the day: Mario Kasun joins Efes Pilsen
Mario Kasun is probably (99.9%) leaving FC Barcelona,
Comparing European and NBA travel calls
For some reason, many Europeans – especially Spanish players – complained a lot about the referees not calling the U.S. traveling. In some way, I really do understand both sides. Traveling in the NBA and the United States is not called the same way as it is called in the Euroleague and Europe. It looks […]
Rod Benson signs with SLUC Nancy
Rod Benson, a name known by every NBA blogger and blog reader, has signed a contract with SLUC Nancy in France. He will be with one of the two French Euroleague teams and is already a favorite to be the best Euroleague.net blogger of the season.
Monday's cigarettes
The Olympics are over and the preseason is now officially launched. Here, the first Monday’s cigarettes of the season.
Thanks to Spain and USA for a great basketball game
So the Redeem Team won the gold medal in Beijing. What in the end looked like no surprise must actually be considered a deserved win by the best team of the tournament: Nothing more and nothing less. The final game showed that the gap between the USA and the rest of the world is not […]
Olympics Live: Argentina vs. Lithuania, USA vs. Spain
If Manu Ginobili is out (because of his ankle injury against Team USA), Lithuania is the favorite in this game and will once again go home with the bronze medal from the Olympics. (Broadcast starts with the 2nd half!) The Gold Medal game will feature the current World Champion Spain and the Gasol brothers against […]
Olympics Live (Women): USA – Australia
Today, we will have a premiere, with the first BallinEurope Live Blog of Women Basketball. We will cover the Final of the Olympic games between Team USA and Australia.
Today's Chinese cigarettes
The Olympic Basketball tournament is coming to an end with the ladies’ finals today and the men’s tomorrow. Let’s take a look at some of funny stories from the last few days.
Olympics: Spain vs Lithuania and USA vs Argentina LIVE
It is down to the final four nations and looks like the best of both worlds: Spain and Lithuania representing Europe – USA and Argentina representing America. Great, isn’t it? BallinEurope will cover the Spain vs. Lithuania starting 2.pm central European time while the following blogs will live blog Team USA vs. Argentina: (still to […]
Bonjour TP! Parker back with Team France
Today, the French basketball federation announced some very surprising news: Tony Parker will play for Team France during the Eurobasket 2009 qualifications. But let’s start from the beginning.