Portugal 6
Neemias Queta’s Warrior Spirit Shakes Germany
Neemias Queta reminded us of warriors of old as Portugal gave Dennis Schroder, Franz Wagner, and the rest of Germany’s loaded roster all they could handle at EuroBasket 2025. In a true fight, the Germans didn’t so much win as survive, writes Emmet Ryan. This was an absolute slobberknocker. Portugal decided that they were going […]
Germany Heavy Favourites vs Portugal at EuroBasket
It’s a real David vs Goliath clash in Riga on Saturday. Franz Wagner and Dennis Schroder lead world champions Germany against Portugal in the last 16 of EuroBasket 2025. Germany made light work of Group B in Tampere. Now, with EuroBasket 2025 in its knockout phase, Franz Wagner and Dennis Schroder will be expected to […]
Highlights: What you may have missed from Wednesday’s EuroBasket qualifiers
We did a round-up of last night’s EuroBasket 2015 second qualifying round action but here are some of the best bits from Wednesday’s games starting, above, with Czech Republic’s win over Portugal.
Podcast: Will Euroleague’s “Financial Fair Play” really work?
BallinEurope’s weekly podcast with hard-working sports journalist David Hein on all matters European and international basketball is now up and running at heinnews.com. Episode 1 of “Taking the Charge” – we’re calling last week’s inaugural effort “Episode 0” – focuses on (and includes) a one-on-one interview Hein undertook with Beko BBL CEO Jan Pommer. While […]
How many Americans (and foreigners) play in Europe, anyway?
Estonia-based newspaper Õhtuleht yesterday posted results from its number-crunching survey of European basketball, vis-à-vis the number of foreigners – and specifically those carrying US passports – in most Continental domestic leagues. The home country itself is one of the more sparsely-foreigner populated, with just 14 foreign players on eight EMKL rosters or just over 1½ […]
List of 2009-10 European basketball champions
League play is now accelerating to a close all over The Continent, and BallinEurope’s “List of European Champions” page gets more updates. Most men’s domestic leagues have completely closed up shoppe for 2009-10, but BiE has also listed a few details on where other leagues stand at present; links are provided where possible. If no […]