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Pierre Seillant retires
One of the most important personalities on the French and European basketball scene is retiring at the end of the season. The emblematic president and big boss of Elan Pau-Orthez announced today that he will retire and also submitted his candidate for his succession.
Pini Gershon is out
It was just a question of time before it becomes official. Now it is. Pini Gershon will leave Olympiacos with immediate effect. We talked already about the problems he got but here is a bit more on his failure.
Behind the scenes: Mascot Fabius
Today, Ball in Europe will start a series about actors of European basketball that are not that well known. We will take here about those people that make the European basketball what it is, but mostly don’t get the same credit than do get the coaches or the players. To summarize, we will talk here […]
Build your own team
We have a lot of fans of Manager games like the Euroleague Fantasy Challenge or the ACB Supermanager. But now this all comes to reality. A Bulgarian basketball team tries to copy the concept of myfootballclub that has been realized in England. So if you want to become a manager of a professional basketball team, […]
Monday's cigarettes
The French newspaper l’Equipe reported about a "shoe war" about Nicolas Batum. Nike was apparently furious about the French prospect to have worn Adidas sneakers in the second half of the French All-Star game after having played the first twenty minutes with Nike sneakers We talked already about some big men on the move. Nikola […]
German All-Star Day: some thoughts
I went to Mannheim this year to follow the German All-Star Day for the first time. As I am not a big fan of these events, I did it especially to check out the brand new SAP Arena and also the game between the youngsters that has been played before the game of the pros.
Austria: the next Basketball superpower?
Did you ever hear of Peter Hütter? Or do you know the scoring average of Mathias Meyer? In fact, do you know what I am talking about?
The German Basketball dilemma
Germany is mostly considered as a basketball underdog, either in European Club competitions or in the different Continental championships or Olympics. Of course, they have one of the best basketball players in the world with Dirk Nowitzki but on the other hand, they have some serious trouble to compete with small nations like Slovenia. This […]
Are you ready for "El Classico"?
Because tonight will be the eternal match-up between the two Spanish powerhouses, Barcelona versus Real Madrid, or even Catalunya versus Castilla. If you have not done your homework, here are a few interesting facts to be prepared for tonight’s game.
A legend returns to Varese for the last time
This Thursday night, Gianmarco Pozzecco will play his last game of his career in his former home, the PalaWhirlpool of Varese. This is a good reason to come back a bit on his great career as the “bad boy” PG of Italy.
What´s going on with Big Sofo?
You may all remember Sofoclis Schortsanitis, the big Greek center who destroyed the USA paint with pick-and-roll plays in last year´s world championship. You may have remarked that his playing time with his team Olympiacos has dramatically decreased this year. But there are some news on him.
P-Mac is back
You may know T-Mac but do you know P-Mac? Even if you don’t know, he signed with the French team Hyères-Toulon as it has been revealed today. And this is an amazing addition for the French team.