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Sunday roundup: Slovenia stunned; France smoked by Canada; USA, Serbia, Lebanon roll
With three key warmups for the 2010 FIBA World Championship tipping off tonight, BallinEurope takes quick stock of some of the games played in the last few days and relevant news on the Team Brazil roster and Hellene injuries – links and video abound, too. Slovenia shocked by New Zealand… No matter what Team New […]
Turkiye’ye hosgeldiniz, Rolando Blackman!
In advance of the 2010 FIBA World Championship, Team Turkey has announced the addition of a new assistant coach: long-time Dallas Maverick and Italian league titlist Rolando Blackman. Blackman last coached with Team Germany for the 2002 Worlds and was tempted into coming out from behind his desk in the Mavericks front office to do […]
Power rankings (already updated): 2010 FIBA World Championship
See, BiE secretly knew this would happen … you break down, make a few fearless predictions online and bam! The inconvenient fact of a loss – two losses in fact, one particularly egregious – goes down and you suddenly have to rework the whole damn post on 2010 FIBA World Championship power rankings. In the […]
Caracter drama: Lakers’ pick draws interest from Italy, Israel, Olympiacos
While Los Angeles Lakers’ second-round draft pick Derrick Caracter impressed in NBA summer league play – even to rank third behind John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins in the NBA.com “Rookie Ladder” – the former UTEP Miner may yet have to wait one more year to play in the big league. No matter, though, as reportedly […]
Greek media: Fernandez “very likely to return to Europe”; Childress, Pekovic fled violence
For readers of Greek out there, Sport.gr is running an interesting piece on the subject of available big-name free agents, comparing the ACB to the EΣAKE and Team Spain to Team Greece while taking a hard look at the possibility of top names playing with Panathinaikos or Olympiacos for 2010-11. Beginning with the premise that […]
Timofey Mozgov vows “I will prove myself in the NBA”; no word from Knicks on FIBA Worlds
How did the Knicks scoop the Nets on this one? And does Mikhail Prokhorov know about this? The New York Times, among other sources, reported last night that BC Moscow Khimki region center Timofey Mozgov has signed a three-year, $10 million deal with the New York Knicks. The move comes as a bit of a […]
Olympiacos pursues five; seven NBA teams pursuing Josh Childress
In wake of the exodus from Olympiacos – we’re talking the incipient departures (of relative likelihood) Linas Kleiza, Josh Childress, and Sofoklis Schortsanitis – the Reds are looking to fill some roster holes with lots of cash still in the Angelopouloses’ pockets able to be paid. According to Greek media, the names Olympiacos are currently […]
Tiago Splitter to sign with San Antonio Spurs on Monday
Wish your former star well Caja Laboral Baskonia fans, and be very afraid NBA Western Conference, for today it’s (reportedly) official: Tiago Splitter has come to terms with the San Antonio Spurs on a multi-year deal for an as-yet undisclosed amount. San Antonio sports radio station KTKR-AM broke the news, going on to report that […]
Plea to New York Knicks: Forget Lebron!
About a day remains before Lebron James presents his version of The Big Reveal, spilling his guts before hundreds of media members like an NCAA prospect officially choosing a uni. (Hey, maybe Lebron should spread three baseball caps in front of him, pick one up and put it on his head…) On the eve of […]
Rumor mill: Sasha Kaun closer to Cleveland Cavaliers?
Even if their club doesn’t manage to re-sign Lebron James (cf. recent second meeting between the King’s men and New York Knicks officials), fans can take solace in the fact that their Cleveland Cavaliers may soon be showing off “one of the best centers in Europe.” Okay, so BiE wouldn’t go that far. But after […]
Which team has the most followers on Twitter and Facebook…?
It was only a matter of time before someone came up with this, BallinEurope supposes, and could be an interesting way to mobilize European fan bases this summer. An outfit called Coyle Media is now tracking the performance of professional sports teams and organizations on social networking media Facebook and Twitter pages. The “Sports Fan […]
It's official: Sergio Rodriguez to Real Madrid
Team Spain’s Sergio Rodriguez is coming home to play professional ball through 2013, as Real Madrid this afternoon announced the New York Knicks free agent had signed a contract with the ACB team. Just about a month ago, word had leaked that Rodriguez had in fact agreed in principle to … a three-year deal with […]