• Home
  • FIBA
  • EuroLeague
  • NBA/NCAA
  • National Leagues
  • Podcast
  • Features
  • More
  • Contact

Grimag

  • FIBA
  • EuroLeague
  • NBA/NCAA
  • National Leagues
  • Podcast
  • Features
  • More

Mario Hezonja 14

 

The Ballin After – Finally Mario

The Ballin After is back with a slightly shorter than usual edition this week because wow it’s been a horrible week for me in my day job. This week’s show looks at the NBA getting ready for the arrival of Mario Hezonja, the FIBA Europe Cup adventure for Hibernia Basketball. and the HOT TAKE is […]

5 years ago More
 

Mario Hezonja was sent here to wreck you

The NBA Summer League got a brutal introduction to Mario Hezonja yesterday, even though he had already made one huge game-ending play in his previous outing Playing for the Orlando Magic’s blue team in the NBA Summer League, Croatian sensation Mario Hezonja hasn’t wasted time making an impression. We all knew about his confidence from […]

5 years ago More
 

Rudy Fernandez powers Real Madrid to 1-0 lead in ACB Finals

Rudy Fernandez showed why he is the ACB’s highest-paid player on Friday as Real Madrid beat Barcelona 78-72 in Game 1 of the ACB finals, writes Austin Green On a night when Mario Hezonja wore his killer instinct on his shooting sleeve, Rudy — well-known for his flair and his flops — carried Real Madrid […]

5 years ago More
 

Finally Mario Hezonja is ready for the jump

On the eve of the ACB finals and just a week before the 2015 NBA Draft, BallinEurope takes a deep look at the Croatian sensation Mario Hezonja Mario Hezonja has been on the NBA radar a long time. The FC Barcelona swingman has been talked up since he was 14 as a serious prospect. Now, […]

5 years ago 5 More
 

Draft Profile: Mario Hezonja

With the 2015 NBA Draft just a few weeks away, BallinEurope’s Sam Chadwick is breaking down the Europeans in contention to hear their names called on 25 June. First up it’s Mario Hezonja of Croatia and FC Barcelona. Vital Stats: Position: Shooting Guard/Small Forward Height: 1.98m Date of birth: 25/Feb/1995 Country: Croatia Current club: FC […]

5 years ago More
 

Barca’s rhythm problem

Cloning Ante Tomic isn’t on the table and that leaves Barcelona with a big problem that was clear to see in the Copa del Rey, writes Emmet Ryan. The scoreline on Saturday night was the most misleading part. Barcelona, if you only checked in after the final horn, looked like they had cruised past ACB […]

6 years ago More

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 […]

7 years ago 1 More

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 […]

7 years ago 11 More

Nike International Junior Tournament: Day one roundup

From BallinEurope’s newfound friends over at Net Scouts comes a wrap of the first day’s games in the highest-profile European youth club competition, the Nike International Junior Tournament. While the headliner in the tourney is clearly FC Barcelona’s Mario Hezonja, no one impressed BiE more than Crvena Zvezda/Red Star’s Dusan Ristic – surely we’ll be […]

7 years ago 3 More

Mario Hezonja slams home Dunk of The Weekend, compiles one-game highlight reel

The NBA All-Star What Contest? Over in the ‘States, basketball superstars created highlight-reel clips while facing little opposition … so forget canned exhibitions (especially Flight White’s sad showing) and check out a show most missed: Croatian wunderkind Mario Hezonja submitted the dunk of the weekend with an incredible one-handed finish to an alley-oop pass from […]

8 years ago More

On Hezonja, Todorovic plus a couple of Swedes: FC Barcelona’s future as bright as the present?

As though FC Barcelona’s red-hot play – they’re now at 14-4 overall after an 0-2 start in Spain – weren’t enough to keep European basketball devotees watching, here are two more reasons for you: Mario Hezonja and Marko Todorović. At just 17 years old and despite missing the entire 2011-12 regular season, Hezonja finally got […]

8 years ago 2 More

You decide: Who should be the new BallinEurope logo? Should “Pau” be retired?

Sooner or later, it had to happen. With Ramunas Siskauskas – half of BallinEurope’s logo – now retired from the professional ranks, the icon (or possibly icons; more on this later) of this website must change. And so today we’re asking the question at top, i.e. Who should be the new logo? We’ll be running […]

8 years ago 30 More
Older posts
Categories
Recent Posts
5 Underrated Facts About NBA You Didn’t Know Of
Who Are The Euro Giants Making Waves in The NBA?
Which NBA Teams Will be the Betting Favorites in 2021?
Tags
EuroLeagueNBAYouTubeCSKA MoscowReal MadridFC BarcelonaFIBAOlympiacosZalgiris KaunasPanathinaikosACBMaccabi Tel AvivSpainTeam SpainLos Angeles LakersRicky RubioMontepaschi SienaPartizan BelgradePau GasolLithuaniaTeam LithuaniaTurkeyGermanyTeam FranceCaja Laboral BaskoniaItalyLietuvos RytasFenerbahce ÜlkerJuan Carlos NavarroSan Antonio SpursTony ParkerDirk Nowitzkibasketball highlightsMinnesota TimberwolvesTeam RussiaIrelandFranceTeam USASerbiaEuroBasket 2011ALBA BerlinGreeceBrose Baskets BambergEuroCupEuroleague 2011-12
Share
0
Facebook
ABOUT
BallinEurope.com was founded in September 2007 by Christophe Ney (who now runs the excellent scouting-themed website European Prospects) and Tobias Seitz, both then bloggers for FIBA.com with over 10 years’ worth of experience in the professional basketball world each. The mission then was to “provide a very unique perspective of Basketball in and about Europe.”
Most Commented
Why Andrei Kirilenko and CSKA Moscow must win the Euroleague
9 years ago
180 Comments
Euroleague Transfers Table 2008/2009
12 years ago
168 Comments
A week in highlights: Spanish block party, mighty Milos, Utah rap and some dude dunking in L.A.
10 years ago
139 Comments
Archives
Get In Touch

Email: emmetryan@gmail.com

Name: Emmet Ryan

2014 © BallinEurope. Join JCI Dublin