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Kristaps is a Mav so let’s dive in
Dallas is looking awfully European after the shocking series of events on Thursday that saw Kristaps Porzingis traded to the Mavs to join Luka Doncic, Maxi Kleber, and Dirk Nowitzki. Emmet Ryan on the unusual move and the interesting shared history of the Porzingis and Doncic First of all, wow, but we’ll get to the […]
NBA Schedule – European Viewing Essentials
This NBA 2017/18 schedule is upon us, and after a few days consideration were looking at the games every European basketball fans need to watch. With approx 1300 games to choose from we have picked the most Euro focused games we could possibly think of. Wednesday 18th Oct – Opening night sees the battle of the bigs kick […]
Watch Danilo drop a sweet dime
The Nuggets routed the Knicks last night and Italy’s Danilo Gallinari delivered the play of the game with this assist.
BallinEurope’s Top 10 Euro-centric storylines in NBA 2013-14 season
Though the NBA’s opening night went down yesterday (North America time), the far majority of teams in the Association has yet to tip things off. What better time then, to enumerate 10 or so storylines BallinEurope will be following in 2013-14? (That was a rhetorical question.) Right, then. Here’s what we’re looking at in the […]
Podcast: Talking Euroleague, NBA transactions, Lithuania basketball
Episode #44 of the BallinEurope/heinnews co-produced “Taking the Charge” podcast series is now available online or via iTunes. This week’s podcast pays homage to the axiom that, when in doubt about what to talk about in European basketball, simply go to Lithuania. And who better to discuss Team Lithuania’s chances in Eurobasket 2013, Linas Kleiza’s […]
Back to the NBA? Bobby Brown works out with Knicks
Wishes of good luck go out to Bobby Brown today, but BallinEurope must say the electrifying point guard would be missed in Euroleague 2013-14 should his current plan be successful. Yahoo Sports reports this morning that the PG, with Montepaschi Siena last season, was given a workout session with the New York Knicks yesterday; the […]
“Flight” White forgets own step-by-step winning instructions, disappointingly fails in NBA Dunk Contest guarantee
Sadly enough for James White, a fourth dunk contest trophy was not added to his mantelpiece after this weekend NBA All-Star game festivities. In fact, after promising Dwyane Wade (and the general populace) a guaranteed win with something completely different… …White let down those who believed after seeing him win dunk titles in Russia, Turkey […]
Oldboy in London: New York Knicks superfan Spike Lee checks out O2, tweets with fans, disses Brooklyn Nets
Unfortunately criminally underrated in the greater popular consciousness as a film director (to wit: why are films like Clockers, The 25th Hour, Summer of Sam more well-remembered and -respected?), Spike Lee nevertheless enjoys tremendous notoriety as the world’s biggest, most visible New York Knicks fan – and as a fantastic Tweeter as well. Spike will […]
NBA on Christmas Day: BallinEurope’s Official Fearless Predictions™
Here on The Continent, all but the hardiest envy those in the Western Hemisphere today; as the holiday fades into evening here, the NBA’s awesome quintupleheader is just beginning: To watch this live, the European would have to pull an all-nighter, with wall-to- wall basketball straight through to 7am or so. BallinEurope plans to watch […]
The BallinEurope Summer League Review: On 14 NBA aspirants from the Continent
While so much attention is paid to the upcoming Olympics and warm-up games, a number of European players have quietly gone about their business in the NBA Summer Leagues in Vegas and Orlando. BallinEurope’s man in the U.K., Sam Chadwick, takes a look at an extended roster’s worth of European ballers’ performances in the Orlando […]
USA 86, Argentina 80: How beatable are the Yanks?
Though not actually about European basketball, last night’s USA 86, Argentina 80 pre-Olympic friendly result leads BallinEurope to put forth a few talking points from the notebook (and highlight clips, of course)… • Perhaps slightly flawed as a whole, the truth is that Team USA still has the best three players in the world right […]
Who can stop Team USA?
This one goes out by request to BallinEurope’s Lithuanian agent Y. … with Team USA coming together to play the Dominican Republic today – with or without Chris Paul – BiE tries to answer the question “Who [if anyone] can beat Team USA?” Good one. A few gauntlets have been thrown by the Americans already, […]