Ireland announce select squad for Luxembourg friendlies
An Irish men’s league select side will take on the Luxembourg national team in three friendlies next week. The games, which will take place from 4 to 6 August will be Luxembourg’s final preparation games before their EuroBasket qualifiers. The Irish roster is as follows:
We really need you to nominate beers
It’s just over 6 weeks since we announced our FIBA Basketball World Cup of Beer challenge. It’s 3 days until it starts…and wow do we really need your help. The last time we did a beer challenge, it went down really well but there were lots of complaints about the beers chosen. This time around […]
Mykhailiuk operating almost under cover
It’s an accident of birth to some degree, actually several, Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk will be all over our screens when he suits up for Kansas but with no live feed from the FIBA U18 European championships B Division the Ukrainian is taking care of business in Sofia this week. Niall McDermott of The Courtside Collective has […]
Nando de Colo has the best location for a basketball camp
Sun & Basketball @NDCBasketball pic.twitter.com/ziRfdz44LK — Syra Sylla (@LADYHOOOP) July 25, 2014 That’s the scene in Tignes where Nando de Colo is running his basketball camp. Ummm, yup, beats pretty much any location I can recall seeing a summer sports camp of any kind from my youth. (h/t Syra Sylla) Update: And here’s another fantastic […]
Ireland end famines with two slices of Danish bacon
This feels good….. pic.twitter.com/hgGm0HokuB — IRL U18 Bball (@IRLU18Bball) July 24, 2014 Normally we are really fair and balanced on this site. This has not been a normal day. When I got up this morning, Ireland hadn’t won a competitive men’s Under 18 international since 2007 or a competitive women’s Under 18 game since 2008. […]
Former Galatasaray baller Jamont Gordon talks about the road to recovery
Jamont Gordon’s season with Galatasaray came to an early end when he tore his ACL. Now the former CSKA Moscow, Cibona, and Bologna player is looking to prove he’s ready to come back and be a force in Europe. BallinEurope caught up with 2013 TBL Finals MVP to find out how his efforts to get […]
FIBA Europe Under 20 final highlights and top plays
An exciting FIBA Europe Under 20 men’s championship came to a conclusion on Sunday with Turkey taking the the title. Check out the highlights of their 65-57 win over Spain below.
VIDEO: Ettore Messina’s coaching philosophy
This is a great find by the crew over at Project Spurs, a 14 minute video of Ettore Messina explaining his philosophy on coaching basketball Yeah, when he opens with comparisons to an orchestra you just know this is going to be good. Then when he gets on to discipline a clearly rights free version […]
The 24 must-see regular season games in 2014/15 Euroleague
Week by week, day by day, we try to forecast the ‘must-watch’ games in the Euroleague Regular season for 2014/15. If you are feeling particularly evil, feel free to bookmark this and come back to mock us after Week 10. The rules here are pretty simple. I get to pick one game for each night […]
Until it matters, it won’t matter
The FIFA World Cup is over, the FIBA World Cup is seven weeks away. Whereas the former near guaranteed shocks and surprises, Basketball fans can only hope we avoid a predictable tournament in Spain. The FIBA World Cup of Basketball has tremendous potential but it’s hard not to be a little worried. Player drop outs […]
Watch all 40 of Angela Salvadores points against USA
Ángela Salvadores couldn’t carry Spain all the way to the FIBA Women’s World Under 17 title but she still stole the show. Check out all 40 points from Salvadores in the video below.
LeBron, another sign that David Blatt just keeps on winning
Lee Jenkins broke the story of LeBron’s return but what happens now? The madness might just be starting. David Blatt’s been on one hell of a run. A triple crown with Maccabi, he lands a NBA job (seriously good hustle once again), the team he lands with wins the lottery and lands Andrew Wiggins, wins […]