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Podcast: Featuring interviews with FIBA U19 World stars Exum, Okafor, Micic, Krestinin, Milunitov
Episode #43 of the BallinEurope/heinnews co-produced “Taking the Charge” podcast series is now available online or via iTunes. In this week’s edition of the ‘cast we put the proverbial bow on a notable FIBA U19 World Championship with a half-dozen interviews (they’re brief, we swear) that Mr. Hein recorded amid writing up the Prague games […]
Team USA takes FIBA U19 Worlds, 82-68; Vasilje Micic with assist of the night
Congratulations from BallinEurope this morning go out to Team USA, which took the FIBA U19 World Championship title in finishing an undefeated romp through the tourney by taking care of business against Serbia last night, 82-68. Kudos, too, to Team Serbia and Lithuania, who did European basketball proud by taking the other two spots on […]
Just because: A look at some mock 2014 NBA Drafts (a.k.a. Way too early Saric-, Hezonja-watching)
From Fox Sports via the syndication wire, BallinEurope’ll put this one up here for the sheer audacity of it. Below runs exactly what the BiE headline advertises: The sports network’s admittedly “way too early” 2014 mock NBA draft. And though it is indeed way too early to be thinking about June 2014, BiE’s already looking […]
Podcast: Talking FIBA U19 Worlds, NBA Draft class with former Team Iran/Poland coach Veselin Matic, Draft Express’ Jonathan Givony
Episode #40 of the BallinEurope/heinnews co-produced “Taking the Charge” podcast series is now available online or via iTunes. This week, the accent is on the game’s future stars. With Hein over there in Prague covering the FIBA U19 World Championship tournament and today seeing the final matches played, we talking about the happenings at that […]
Podcast: Featuring Team India coach Scott Flemming on FIBA rule changes, upcoming Asia tournament and "India's Yao Ming" Satnam Singh Bhamara
Episode #41 of the BallinEurope/heinnews co-produced weekly podcast Taking the Charge is now online and available for download via iTunes. With little left say for club basketball in the 2012-13 season except offer sympathy for the San Antonio Spurs and possibly Maccabi Tel Aviv, the emphasis this week is on India – just in case […]
Podcast: Interview with Team Poland/Lietuvos Rytas coach Dirk Bauermann
Episode #39 of the weekly “Taking the Charge” podcast series is now available online. Co-host David Hein and BiE have kept this one mercifully (relatively) short. Recorded directly after game three of the San Antonio Spurs-Miami Heat NBA championship – not to mention directly thereafter game two of the Liga Endesa finals, game two of […]
Eurobasket 2013: Which NBA players are in, which are out?
Because it’s never too early to start looking ahead to Eurobasket 2013 – wait a minute, there’s only 11 weeks left until tipoff? Definitely not too early, then, to take a look at the formative rosters for the big Continental tournament. While only a few national teams (Croatia and Lithuania among them) have released preliminary […]
Podcast: Interview with Team Spain U19s head coach Luis Guil; review of The Last Boy Scout; gobs of basketball talk
Episode #36 of the weekly “Taking the Charge” podcast series is now available online and, if you think the end of the Euroleague season means a paucity of subjects to discuss, well, you don’t know BallinEurope and heinnews once we get started… At center is an interview with current Team Spain U19s/former Murcia head coach […]
Serious stunner: FIBA introduces five-point shot, effective immediately in international competition
In what is apparently an effort to either increase fandom or sheerly generate publicity for international basketball tournaments, FIBA officials started their week by announcing the introduction of an entirely new wrinkle to the game: Any shot taken from or behind the half-court mark will now be awarded five points. Reportedly, the rule change – […]
March Madness: Three teams (and nine players) to support in the 2013 NCAA Tournament
Can one website support three teams in a single competition? Hey, it’s March Madness, so why not? Earlier, BallinEurope took a brief look at half the European players set to compete (or not) in the 2013 NCAA Tournament; today, nine more – and a bit of a conundrum Though some 18 names on Big Dance […]
Team Russia to be AK-less for Eurobasket as Andrei Kirilenko announces retirement
But what a way to go out, eh…? Russia-based Sport Express and FIBA are this morning reporting what many have suspected all along what was inevitable: That Andrei Kirilenko is to retire from international play. Kirilenko explained that he’d already recently discussed the possibility with Russian Basketball Federation president Alexander Krasnenkov and that he “didn’t […]
Podcast: Interviewing German Bundesliga CEO Jan Pommer, viewing basketball in Pittsburgh
Episode #21 of the BallinEurope/heinnews co-hosted “Taking the Charge” podcast series is now online. With the entire Euroleague taking a bye this week, David Hein and yours truly keep the EL-centric talk to a minimum, but stay focused on basketball nevertheless with an interview of Bundesliga CEO Jan Pommer. Pommer is not only enjoying some […]