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Basketball betting: The man behind the odds
Ever wondered who makes the odds and how? You probably thought it’s all done by computers, but no: Even in this business, the computer can’t take the place of a human being. This is is why we talked to Arvids, an odds compiler for Betway.com. Arvids gets paid for dealing with sports and bets all day […]
General questions about international and European basketball
Over the last few weeks, we’ve received a few interesting questions from Luke T. Johnson of the China Daily and we decided to make them open to the public. Here you go: 1. How have international teams from Europe and South America managed to close the gap on the US? I am a huge European […]
"Nowitzki era has not been used"
Remember Ademola Okulaja? In terms of college basketball, he is probably the most known German professional basketball player ever. He was on a North Carolina team with players like Antawn Jamison, Vince Carter, Ed Cota, Shammond Williams and Makhtar N’Diaye and was named MVP of the Tar Heels in his senior year. Right now Ademola […]
Basketball bet: The Betonbasket.com interview
Here is another new “off season” basketball series, that provides a lot of great information to our readers. Almost everybody that I speak to is “investing” money into bets – basketball bets!
Euroleague Final Four: A halftime with Jordi Bertomeu (Part 2)
Here is the second part of our interview with Jordi Bertomeu. How does this agreement between Euroleague basketball and AEG impact the choice of Final Four locations? The agreement with AEG is for three years. What is sure that is that the Final Four 2009 is in Berlin. We will be in London either in […]
Euroleague Final Four: A halftime with Jordi Bertomeu (Part 1)
During the Final Four, BallinEurope had the opportunity at halftime of the third-place game to speak in near exclusivity with Euroleague basketball CEO Jordi Bertomeu. Bertomeu invited us together with Horst Schneider from German Forward Magazine and Ian Whittell from the Times of London to talk about the agreement with AEG and what this means […]
Toni Kukoc, Dino Radja, Zan Tabak still playing
As you know by now, I am as much a Bulls fan (Jordan/Pippen era) as probably anybody else. When I heard the rumor that there might be a game between Split and Barcelona veterans, I was pretty sure that we would see Toni, Dino and some more great European players. I’d always wanted to see […]
Euroleague Final Four: Maccabi Tel Aviv's history lesson
Once again thanks to Yarone Arbel for this great series of articles about “his” team Maccabi Tel Aviv. History-wise … Maccabi couldn’t hope for a better opponent in the semi-finals than Montepaschi. In eight encounters so far, all in recent years, Maccabi has beat the Italian bank eight times. In fact, most of these games have […]
Euroleague Final Four LIVE chat
The Final Four is coming closer and closer. Somehow we I feel like I would need some more basketball right now. The Euroleague should find something to fill in the break right? At least we have the NBA playoffs going on, the FIBA Europcup was going on, as well as the ULEB cup. But we […]
Euroleague women Final Four: Hamchetou Maiga
Since Christophe published this great article on the women’s final four which already started (UMMC Ekaterinburg already lost a few minutes ago to Spartak Moscow Region 68-78) we sent a few questions to Hamchetou Maiga, who is one of the stars at Brno. Brno’s game against Bourges will tip off in about 45 minutes and […]
Chris Kaman: "I want to be German"
I promised you updates with this story so here is the latest: “I want to be German”, at least this is what the German news site RP-online tells us. Kaman said that he would want to play for the German national team. He talked to the German Basketball Federation and they really try to make […]
Interview with Chuck Eidson
Lietuvos Rytas forward Chuck Eidson gave us a short interview just before today’s Euroleague game against Fenerbahce. So Chuck, you apparently signed a 4 year deal with Lietuvos Rytas. What were the main reasons for this somehow unusual deal for a basketball player as normally most of the players only get 1 year contracts? I […]