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Devotion down 3.5 percent: Final 2009-10 Euroleague attendance figures
During the 2009-10 Euroleague season, one of the most watched statistics was totally off-court; with financial stress pervasive throughout The Continent, most European basketball franchises prepared for the worst and tightened belts in expectation of lower turnouts. And once all was said and done, the results were … mixed. With last season’s biggest draw Alba […]
Prokhorov, Thorn, Johnson to meet with Lebron, D-Wade, Bosh
Just a quick note, surely the first of many in the loooooooooooong NBA free-agency season to come. Reportedly, the New Jersey Nets are sending something of a dream team to meet with LeBron James in Ohio and later Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in New York City, namely none other than former stud CSKA Moscow […]
The new transfers table is here! The new transfers table is here!
Your patience has been rewarded, BallinEurope Euroleague fans, and after a weekend of beers and World Cup football hard work trawling online, the 2010/11 BiE Euroleague Transfers Table is complete. You may find it by clicking here or by selecting the tab on the homepage. Any corrections or even rumor reportage are happily accepted and […]
Kobe Bryant: “I would love to play in Italy”
It’s a dream dreamt by every follower of Italian basketball, not to mention all of us refugees of Los Angeles Lakers fandom in Europe: the fantasy that longtime Northern Italy resident Kobe Bryant might one day play some Serie A ball before hanging it up. Well, today, Italy-based La Repubblica made that fantastical dream seem […]
The book on Pape Sy, the Atlanta Hawks’ no. 53 overall NBA Draft pick
It’s a question on the mind of those teeming masses of French and Atlanta Hawks basketball fans: Who is Pape Sy, this citizen of La Republique that the Hawks selected at no. 53 overall? The fans’ wishes are BallinEurope’s command, so here’s the book (and the YouTube) on Monsieur Sy; apologies for allowing the Pape […]
2010 NBA Draft Analysis: Four Europeans walk into a league…
Right, so in the 2010 NBA Draft there were four Europeans: a Frenchman, a German, a Brit and a Serbian. I could easily make up a joke about how they all walk into a bar … but I won’t. [Aw. –Ed.] Instead, I’ll give you some stats on each of these players: Okay, the Frenchman: […]
Rumor mills cranking: Childress to Washington? Siskauskas to Madrid? Childress to Atlanta?
Oh boy, it’s the first big Eurocentric rumor of the 2010-11 season! According to TalkBasket.net and a few other sources, Olympiacos has informed Josh Childress that the club would like him not be to re-up with the Reds in his option year. One wonders if this information was passed on before or after Tuesday’s announcement […]
Thorn-y situation for Mikhail Prokhorov as club president unexpectedly steps down
Rod Thorn, known as the GM who drafted Michael Jordan and the president of the New Jersey Nets since 2000, will be leaving the club when his contract expires on Wednesday. This leaves a vacancy at the position for Mikhail Prokhorov’s newly bought club and represents the first potential headache for the Russian owner. ESPN […]
Team Greece's FIBA World Championship preliminary roster announced: No Papaloukas, still scary
The preliminary Team Greece roster of 17 players has been announced and, despite the notable exclusion of Theo Papaloukas, the 2006 FIBA World Championship silver medalists are bringing quite the squad to the 2010 edition of the competition. EΣAKE’s two most celebrated franchises are naturally well-represented, with six Panathinaikos players and five from Olympiacos making […]
On 2010 NBA Draft night, four Europeans hear names called
While there may be a dearth of European rookies actually cracking NBA squads in 2009-10, at least the rights to a quartet of promising Continental players have been picked up on draft night. Despite a recent injury and thus a lack of NBA combine workout, Kevin Seraphin was the first European player selected in 2010, […]
2010 FIBA World Championship odds: Looking for a dark horse {advertorial}
So call BallinEurope kooky: While everyone else with an eye on basketball – even European basketball, for Arvydas Sabonis’ sake – is concentrating on the NBA free-agent market, BiE is all attention on the 2010 FIBA World Championship for Men tipping off in Turkey in August. Naturally, bookmakers too are into it and the early […]
Asseco Prokom’s Seczkowski named Euroleague Exec of 2009-10
Congratulations from BallinEurope to Asseco Prokom Gdynia and its CEO Przemyslaw Seczkowski, who deservedly took the 2010 Euroleague Club Executive of the Year after what the EL is justifiably calling “The most successful season ever by a Polish team in European basketball history.” Official Euroleague press release follows the break.