August 2008 48
Luol Deng won't play the Eurobasket
The British Basketball federation had high hopes on bringing the Chicago Bull to London in order to qualify for the next Eurobasket 2009 in Poland. Now this plan has turned out bad.
Olympics: Germany vs. Spain
UPDATED: 10:38am local time Beijing Just got home from dinner and am lucky to follow my fellow Germans against Spain. NBC has a nice LIVE picture on their website which looks great. 1. Quarter notes: Spain was missing nearly every shot, while Germany made most of their shots. This explains why Spain has over 8 […]
Goran Dragic will go to Phoenix
After everything looked clear for European Basketball fans that Goran Dragic will play for TAU Vitoria next season, now the US site sportingnews.com announces that the Slovenian PG will join Phoenix as back-up PG for next season.
Jose Calderon responds to Spanish controversy
If you read BallinEurope on a daily basis, you probably read this article about the Spanish national team. For some reason, people are more interested in discussing topics like this, than talking about basketball (Is the US team THAT dominant that we have to talk about things like that?). My friend Jaime from one of […]
Europe versus USA: what's the real difference
With the Gold Medal of Argentina in the 2004 Olympics, the dominance of the United States since the apparition of the NBA players in 1992 has come to an end. I wanted to know how big the difference between Europe and the United States is in reality in the Olympic competition.
Buongiorno Dan Dickau!
Air Avellino, an Italian club that just made it to the Euroleague for the first time, named Dan Dickau their new point guard. According to club President Vincenzo Ercolino, Air Avelino was looking for Dan, because of their aim “to find a player that could make a difference and dictate the tempo of our team. He […]
Controversy around the Spanish national team
I am not really sure what to do with this. This is why I let you to discuss this one on your own. As one of our readers points out, the Spanish national team took this picture: As The Guardian, one of England’s leading newspaper,s points out, this is nothing special since […]
Today's Chinese cigarettes
The first day of the Olympic Men Basketball tournament is history and this night started the 2nd day of the competition. Here are the latest short stories we found around the net.
Serbia wins the U20 European Championship
The Serbian under-20 National Team won the FIBA Europe U20 European Championship this weekend by beating the team of Lithuania in an amazing game with the score of 96-89. BallinEurope was present in Riga and gives you an update about the tournament and its main players.
Domestic league preview: Italy
Virtus Bologna’s agreement with Earl Boykins is only the latest sign: It is now clear that the Italian League is ready to return to its past and glorious times of the 1990s when Bologna was called “Basket City” and the whole movement was at the top in Europe. Serie A is on the rise again, […]
Olympic Games: the Lithuanian fan experience
As I am still in Riga to cover the U20 European Championships and as I wanted however to follow the Olympic Games, I was looking around to see if some bars or pubs are showing the games. And this was not that easy.