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Best of the (basketball) net: Calm Before The Perfect Storm edition
The pickings for basketball-related news online this week were a tad slim, with that inevitable last-weeks-of-August malaise that conquers Europe annually and sends the entire continent on holiday really settling in. Ah well, Eurobasket 2009 tips off in a couple weeks, followed by national leagues awakening, and Euroleague/NBA isn’t that far off, really. In the […]
Happy first day of school, Enes Kanter!
Enes Kanter, the wunderkind from Turkey who stunned everyone with his consistently dominant play during the FIBA U18 European Championship Men tournament, starts his senior year of high school today at Findlay College Prep in Henderson (neighbor of Las Vegas), Nevada — thereby passing up multi-million euro offers from Euroleague franchises and interestingly taking the […]
Best of the (basketball) net: Everybody's YouTubing edition
Was everybody YouTubing this week? Seriously, all the best basketball-related websites from tiny to massive/official have been plastered with YouTube clips as though it’s all part of a vast conspiracy to assist us in wasting valuable work time. Not that that’s a bad thing…
Inaugural Champion U18 All-Star Game participants named
At the close of the FIBA U18 European Championship Men tournament last weekend, FIBA Europe announced yet another international event to put on the youth basketball calendar. Christened the “Champion U18 All-Star Game,” FIBA officials will gather together 30 of the top U18 players from Europe, including 24 from the championship tournament, to tip it […]
U18 Finals: France vs. Serbia; consolation match pits Valanciunas vs. Kanter
Over in France in the U18 European Championship Men, it’ll be France and Serbia duking it out in the finals today after both squads used teamwork to overcome a potentially devastating individual performance. Team France held off Lithuania, 68-63, again allowing the opposition to claw its way back in the fourth quarter yet holding on […]
Final Four set at U18 European championship: Turkey, Serbia, Lithuania, France
The FIBA U18 European Championship Men tips off its semifinal round with four teams keeping title hopes alive: Lithuania, Serbia, Turkey, and France. All the teams played the quarterfinals games yesterday, with Turkey pulling off the notable upset over Spain. Today’s games pit Turkey against Serbia at 6pm CET and Lithuania against France at 8.15pm. […]
U20 European Championship Men: Day one roundup
Reporting for heinnews, David Hein provides coverage from the U20 European Championship in fantastic Rhodes. Playing out were Spain v. Russia, Latvia v. Slovenia, Greece v. Belgium, France v. Italy and Ukraine v. Serbia. (heinnews) – Looking at the first day of action at the U20 European Championship, a few of the big names were […]
Last-second choices for the NIKEiD Fantasy Challenge
This week looked like a very tough challenge to me as I did not expect to trade away my top performer at the moment: Pops Mensah-Bonsu. But a shoulder injury stopped the British national team player, and so I had to give him away. But for his value, I could buy two “certain” gainers instead, […]