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Latest NBA Trade Rumours
Kevin Durant in the Lakers? Bryant in New York? Pau Gasol in Memphis alongside his brother? These are the latest NBA rumours that just might prove to be true.“> Kevin Durant’s contract with Oklahoma runs out next summer, and there have been rumours that he just might leave the Thunder in order to go elsewhere […]
Top 5 Biggest Basketball Bets Ever Made
Making huge amounts of dollars in TV revenues, sponsorship deals and promoting household names like LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Oklahoma City Thunder’s Kevin Durant, Basketball is mutli-billion dollar mega sport. Like any mega sport, there are no shortage of Journalists, agents, pundits, bloggers and twits circulating the game at any one time. […]
Reconstructing a basketball scene from Escape from LA
We got sent this by Eugene Panfilov. He and his buddies decided to recreate a scene from a not so good movie shot for shot, in the literal sense given it’s a basketball sequence. For those of you who may not be aware, Escape from LA is the painfully inferior sequel to Escape from New […]
The Canadian Basketball team is on a roll for the Olympics
Canada is breezing with their national basketball team through the FIBA Americas championship. On Wednesday, they met Dominican Republic and it was delightful game to watch. Final scores were tallied for them – at 120-103, but it was an all-contributing performance from the entire team that led them to this huge win. Similar results took […]
BallinEurope needs your help
BallinEurope is up for two awards and we are really up against it for the public vote, that’s why we are calling on BiE readers around the world to answer the call BiE has been nominated twice in the Blog Awards Ireland. We are up for Best Innovation and Best Lifestyle and we are so […]
EuroBasket Group Winners: Fan Predictions
While most of the basketball fans are probably rooting for their national team to win the upcoming EuroBasket – even if it’s very unlikely – it’s a different story in the group stage. The 24 teams are divided in 4 groups, so naturally, there are four times as many opinions on the favourites. TonyBet took […]
What Sportsbooks Are Saying About the 2015 NBA Draft
The 2015 NBA Draft is shaping up to be a “big” draft in the most literal sense. According to DraftExpress.com, one of the leading sites for all things NBA draft, as many as four seven-footers are projected to be off the board within the first handful of picks. Karl-Anthony Towns, Jahlil Okafor and Willie Cauley-Stein […]
Basketball makes its way into Atlantic City
Sports and gambling have always been something of a controversial marriage. While for some, mixing the two genres casts a shadow of something sinister over good old fashioned competition, for others, it provides an additional element of excitement that makes finals such as the NBA even more appealing. Traditionally, we would see the link between […]
Underrated draft picks
Pic by EdRost88 As we edge closer to this year’s draft, general managers around the NBA are putting together their final plans for which players they feel will have a positive impact on their team. While much of the focus in this draft will be on whether players can step straight into the league, there […]
NBA MVP race too tight to call
One of the many fascinating aspects of the 2014-15 NBA season has been the ascension of a number of stars to the league’s true upper echelons. Cornering a market LeBron James has cast quite a shadow over the NBA MVP race in recent years, winning four of the last six awards. The only other players […]
Lesser spotted buzzer beaters: Half court shot wins a championship
Time was running out in the Irish Colleges Division 1 final. IT Carlow and NUI Galway were all square at 72-72 and overtime loomed until Jimmy Ward said OH HELL NO and unleashed this monster from the halfway line to take the title for Carlow. Check it out. UPDATE: Now in HD via The Courtside […]
Sportando launches a new basketball management game
Our buddies over at Sportando have launched a new basketball management simulator and it’s free. We checked in with their editor, Emiliano Carchia, to ask him all about the project. BallinEurope: Why did Sportando decide to produce this game? How long did it take? Emiliano Carchia: We decided to launch the video game after we […]