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BCL Glory Revives Unicaja Malaga’s Slam Hopes
Fear of defeat rather than the joy of winning had plagued Unicaja Malaga for months. With triumph in the Basketball Champions League final over Galatasaray, they refound their fun. Now, a season that has become historic is on the verge of becoming immortal. A grand slam campaign is on the cards. There are no easy […]
Will Cummings Leads Galatasaray’s BCL Surge
It was a familiar story for Galatasaray. When all around them were losing their heads, Will Cummings was putting his where most wouldn’t put their feet. Emmet Ryan on yet another headstrong effort in the Basketball Champions League. This one, of course, got them past Tenerife and into Sunday’s final. It is the one certainty […]
From Barca to Kazan – The prospects for the non playoff teams
With the end of the regular season comes a chance for the eliminated sides to focus more on their domestic campaigns. Emmet Ryan looks at what’s in store for the teams not in the Euroleague playoffs We’re going to leave Dacka and Crvena Zvezda to one side for now and not just because both are […]
Euroleague 2016-17 preview: Galatasaray
Galatasaray return to Euroleague for the 2016/17 season by virtue of winning Eurocup last season. Emmet Ryan looks at how they will handle the step up As the intro suggests, we’re doing a preview for each of the 16 teams in Euroleague in the 16 days leading up to the start of the new season. […]
The 61 must-watch games on every night of the 2016/17 Euroleague season
The games for the first season of the new 16 team 30 game Euroleague format have been announced. With 61 game nights in total, BiE’s Emmet Ryan has picked the game to watch on every night of the campaign We knew it was going to be big but wow that is a crowded calendar. While […]
National league preview: Turkish Superlig
Pinar Karsiyaka shocked the continent in last season’s BSL playoffs but with an awful lot of movement, what can we expect from the year to come? Emmet Ryan takes a look at arguably European basketball’s strongest league The run through the playoffs was silly. In May we had all been warned, or at least an […]
Epic tribute from Crvena Zvezda fans to Marko Ivkovic
The death od Crvena Zvezda fan Marko Ivkovic before the Serbian club’s road game against Galatasaray in the regular season affected fans across Europe. On Friday night, Zvezda fans paid an emotional tribute to the young man ahead of Galatasaray’s visit for their Top 16 game. Here are the scenes from an extraordinary display before […]
Patric Young sets down a marker for the TBL dunk contest
With the Turkish Basketball League’s dunk contest taking place this weekend, Galatasaray’s former Florida Gator Patric Young has shown he plans on going big for the title. Check this out. He will be 2015 TBL Slam Dunk champion. @patricyoung4 İbrahim Tilki (@ibrahimtilki_) tarafından paylaşılan bir video (Oca 15, 2015 at 6:57öö PST)
It’s on us – The death of Marko Ivkovic
Last night European basketball and sport as whole suffered a senseless loss with the murder of Marko Ivkovic, a Crvena Zvezda fan, in Istanbul. BallinEurope’s editor Emmet Ryan offers his thoughts. It doesn’t matter that Galatasaray won in double overtime. It doesn’t matter that Marcus Williams set a new assists record. It definitely doesn’t matter […]
Jamont Gordon continuing his road to recovery
Last month we caught up with former Galatasaray and Mississippi State guard Jamont Gordon as he looks to get back on the court following a season ending injury. Gordon is charting his recovery through a video series and part two dropped on Wednesday night. Check out the video below to see how Gordon is trying […]
Former Galatasaray baller Jamont Gordon talks about the road to recovery
Jamont Gordon’s season with Galatasaray came to an early end when he tore his ACL. Now the former CSKA Moscow, Cibona, and Bologna player is looking to prove he’s ready to come back and be a force in Europe. BallinEurope caught up with 2013 TBL Finals MVP to find out how his efforts to get […]
Money does not equal professionalism
The Belgrade derby ends in a 3-on-4 match-up and then an Istanbul derby doesn’t happen at all. These are supposed to be finals, the pinnacle of the season. Emmet Ryan writes on why, irrespective of individual fault, this makes all involved look bad. It’s been one of those weeks (and a bit), the type we […]