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Euroleague Final Four Preview: Regal FC Barcelona
After we did the Euroleague preview by asking experts from the different countries representing the various Euroleague teams to give their opinion, we did the same exercise again to see what these experts think about the upcoming Euroleague Final Four. Jaime Martinez Lafargue has sent us his preview on Regal FC Barcelona from Spain. Jaime […]
Euroleague Final Four: the expert view
Before the Euroleague season started, we asked experts from all around the continent to give us their opinions about their home country’s team(s). They also had to predict the regular-season record of their team and which four teams would reach the Final Four. So it’s time to check the results and see who the über-expert […]
My Euroleague Playoff Tuesday
The Euroleague playoffs began this Tuesday and despite having practice during the evening, I tried to blog my playoff night as it happened. So the evening started in Moscow, of course, with the playoff opener in a tournament that is finally played in best-of-five mode.
Yarone's Weekend Joints – Part II
The last pack of Joints before the big break presents you with the stories behind the games in Barcelona and Roma, with a short stop in Athens and a final visit to Kaunas. Puff it up! Mirza Bryant? An NBA glitch for a minute. The most memorable game from Kobe’s rookie season was the last […]
Yarone's Weekend Joints – Part I
Week 8 of the Euroleague presented some unusual numbers in the Zalgiris-Prokom game, a junior big guys battle in Athens, a Turkish delight thanks to veterans and a big tie in the Le Mans battle. Part I will present all that before Part II, in which the games in Barcelona and Roma take center stage. […]
Tips from the Euroleague boss: Week 7
Hello everybody, once again this is Javier Gancedo, as always from Euroleague Basketball in the last NIKEiD Fantasy Challenge blog of 2008. Looking back at the Euroleague year, it has been a fantastic one. The Final Four in Madrid was terrific; the competition system changed and it is safe to say it was an improvement; […]
Tips from the Euroleague boss: Week 5
Hello everybody, once again this is Javier Gancedo, as always from Euroleague.net. What a Euroleague week it was, friends! First-time winners Union Olimpija and AJ Milano, the best Real Madrid show of the season, an impossible end to that Partizan-CSKA showdown, TWO overtime thrillers in Zagreb and Le Mans and above all, an instant classic […]
Aftermath cigarettes
The first Euroleague game day of the 2008/09 season is in the books – all the home teams won their games besides Avellino (Italy) who lost to Olympiacos, and SLUC Nancy (France) who got killed at home against FC Barcelona. Player that impressed me the most: Loren Woods. I know Will McDonald is the Euroleague […]
Euroleague: Regal FC Barcelona, Spain
Jaime Martínez Lafargue from the Spanish website Solobasket explains us today why FC Barcelona should be followed this season. Solobasket is one of the most popular websites about Basketball in Spain and offers now also content in English. Overall record prediction: 7-3 FC Barcelona comes from a troubled season with a coach replacement and poor […]