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Euroleague Playoffs: Games One highlights
For your convenience, BallinEurope brings you a quick collection of highlight clips from Euroleague Playoffs games one last night. Below the break, relive (or don’t, if you’re a Montepaschi Siena fan) the posterable moments from four games’ worth of home-team victories. Enjoy!
Pops Mensah-Bonsu talks England v. Ghana
Those of you who are fans of that other roundball sport they play in Britain and other parts of Europe, i.e. football a.k.a. soccer, will definitely want to check out the video clip below. On the occasion of next Tuesday’s historic first-ever meeting between England and Ghana’s national teams, Pops Mensah-Bonsu, he of the “Olympic-bound […]
Euroleague playoffs: Notes, videos and Fearless Predictions™
Here it comes: a full slate of four games to tip off the Euroleague Playoff Round tonight. And how could BallinEurope miss another chance to post more Fearless Predictions™? Below, a brief take on each game plus videos and those ever-popular prognostications. Enjoy the games! • Caja Laboral Baskonia vs. Maccabi Tel Aviv – BiE’s […]
All-Euroleague Team polling nearly open
An important tweet to pass on for Euroleague fans here … at precisely 10am CET came this message on Twitter: Be the first to vote for this season’s All-Euroleague team. Voting opens in just a few hours on Euroleague.net. You decide! Just so you know.
Nike Hoop Summit: Nine named to World Select Team (but not Enes Kanter)
Rosters for the 2011 Nike Hoop Summit have been released and while The Continent is well-represented on the World Select Team, BallinEurope considers there to be at least one shocking omission. Team World will include Davis Bertans (Latvia/Union Olimpija); Evan Fournier (France/Poitiers); Przemyslaw Karnowski (Poland/SMS PZKosz); Mateusz Ponitka (Poland/Tempcold AZS); and Dario Saric (Croatia/KK Zagreb). […]
Ettore Messina to become NBA assistant coach?
After taking four Euroleague titles, Ettore Messina now aspires to become an assistant coach? That’s the report from CNNSI in which the master muses that serving as an NBA assistant coach “would be interesting.” Continued Messina in a phone interview with Ian Thomsen, “But I need first of all to see if I could be […]
Euroleague playoff round hors d’oeuvres: Bits, bites and video clips
It seems like forever, but the Euroleague break is over tomorrow with the beginning of the elite eight playoff round. Today the basketball news outlets are buzzing with anticipation, and BallinEurope brings you a few bits, bites and, oh yes, YouTube clips to get those viewing muscles warmed up a bit… • Maccabi Tel Aviv […]
Highlights: Fuenlabrada vs. Power Electronics Valencia
Hot off the presses … or maybe the wires … or … how would you say that these days, anyway…? Fresh from the final buzzer, shall we say, below run a few game highlights from perhaps the marquee matchup of this Sunday in the ACB, namely Fuenlabrada vs. Power Electronics Valencia. Going into the game, […]
Go, Danilo, go (past LeBron for two)!
And speaking of video clips… Though the New York Knicks may never regret finally acquiring Carmelo Anthony, BallinEurope would like to see Danilo Gallinari succeed enough outside of the Big Apple to have ‘Bocker backers muttering just a bit in their beers about that bit of the big trade in a coupla years. Here’s the […]
Basketball highlights of the week: Featuring Prigioni, McIntyre, Llull and some jackasses
On a lazy Sunday before the ACB tips off, what better way to wile away a few minutes than checking out some recent video clips? BallinEurope has a half-dozen short vids encapsulating basketball this week from The Continent and ‘States. Enjoy! • Weirdness and excitement in Spanish basketball? You bet! BiE recalls that this was […]
Iverson to return to Turkey on Monday
Finally, some news of Allen Iverson’s return to Beşiktaş Cola Turka! ESPN.com reports that A.I. is expected to receive clearance from Dr. James Andrews to rejoin the Turkish side after a checkup on his progress from rehabbing after discovering a growth on his leg. “He’s going to start rigorous training as soon as he has […]
Take Dat Wit Chew: Nowitzki gets DJ Steve Porter remix treatment
DJ Steve Porter has done it again, and this time the NBA’s most popular European player is the star. The mixmaster, who has become ubiquitous in the American sports entertainment world since he parlayed his YouTube classic “Press Hop” into a deal to create the videos for last season’s NBA playoff advertising campaign, puts Dirk […]