EuroLeague 174
Euroleague qualification system to be set
Euroleague season 2008-2009 has been over for more than a month already, but who will qualify for next year’s edition of the major competition in European basketball remains unclear. The A/B/C Licensing system has been extensively discussed here at BallinEurope.com, and it looks as though Euroleague Basketball will soon come to a final decision.
How the crisis impacts basketball agents
Our friend Kristian Santiago has written a very interesting piece about the current situation that basketball agents face in Europe. Enjoy the read and get some information from inside the basketball business.
Monday’s cigarettes
Here we go for the next round of cigarettes from all around Europe.
No news on Euroleague competition system
The Euroleague competition system for next season is still unknown officially. Multiple discussions have been held during recent weeks but no decision has been taken. Several opinions are still around and the news comes for the moment essentially from leagues, clubs or other groups, while the Euroleague has fallen into apathy since the Final Four […]
How to improve Euroleague.TV
Another Euroleague season has passed, and this fan would like to thank Euroleague.TV for making the games available online via subscription program. Given the available resources, the Euroleague.TV people do an excellent job in covering their brand of basketball. Living in Hungary, wherein consistent television coverage of any sport outside of soccer is fairly poor, […]
Euroleague Final Four: Leave your coins at home!
Interesting news from the Euroleague department regarding security at the Final Four:
Basketball and Facebook: That works!
I started using Facebook about four years ago, when a girl from the US told me about her Facebook thing. Now, four years later, people on a search engine expo are talking only about Facebook: Facebook ads, Facebook marketing, Facebook everything. Europeans particularly seem to love basketball on Facebook. The Euroleague has a group with […]
Yarone's Playoff joints (Round 1)
After a long rest due to Interpol checking into the legality of the Joints published on BIE, the most tiring piece of text on this blog is back, and no better timing than the quarterfinals. With all due respect to the handball match that went on in Moscow, the Game 1 joints will focus on […]
My Euroleague Playoff Tuesday
The Euroleague playoffs began this Tuesday and despite having practice during the evening, I tried to blog my playoff night as it happened. So the evening started in Moscow, of course, with the playoff opener in a tournament that is finally played in best-of-five mode.
Will the HGP change Basketball?
The soccer world is discussing these days the famous 6+5 rule and determining how many foreign players should be allowed to play in national championships or European Club competitions. In continental European basketball, the rules are currently way more complicated, as they vary from league to league and don’t even have any regulation when it […]
Good night to Montepaschi's title chances?
Montepaschi Siena’s chances of winning the Euroleague title took a huge blow on Wednesday when it was announced that power forward Ksistof Lavrinovic had broken his left hand and will miss at least a month of action. The Italian club said in a statement that the Lithuanian big man had undergone successful surgery Wednesday morning […]
Three French Euroleague teams in 2009?
With the latest evolution to Euroleague format discussions having grown just one week old, some new changes could yet occur. After the trouble between two concerned French teams (SLUC Nancy voting “no” on the latest proposition, and ASVEL Villeurbanne voting in favor of the original 2008 model), Jordi Bertomeu himself sent out a press release […]