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Best of the (basketball) net: Week of July 18
Missed something online this week? No worries! Every weekend, BallinEurope.com brings you the best, weirdest, coolest, and/or worthiest stories from the great big blogosphere. Be sure to check this space when you’re messing around on your days off, and do yourself a favor by reading these recommendations: You’ll be happy you did. The best basketball-related […]
Poor T-Wolves request discount on Rubio
In case you missed it, here’s a link to the ESPN.com reportage on the latest chapter in the Minnesota Timberwolves off-season soap opera starring Ricky Rubio. The latest chapter is all about — believe it or not — economics. In order to sign their first-round draft pick and create that excellently thought-out Rubio/Jonny Flynn redundancy […]
Monday’s cigarettes
It’s playoff time throughout Europe and that’s no reason to slow down our output, but to come up with another Monday morning roundup of the most interesting stuff collected from around the web.
Late Monday’s cigarettes
Here we go for the next round of the traditional Monday morning evening cigarette break.
Tips from the Euroleague boss: Week 10
Hello everybody and happy 2009 to every BallinEurope reader! First and foremost, I must apologize for my non-blogging last week. I was on holiday and returned one hour before the games with a ton of things to do. Things didn’t go as planned, either, trades were not good and I went down some positions. Hope […]
X-mas cigarettes
Today is December 24th, Santa Claus is just around the corner, and here we go for some cigarettes that help to survive during the break over the holy days. First of all, thanks to Zalgiris Kaunas, which is (so far) the only Euroleague and team in general that has sent a (digital) Christmas Card to […]
Monday's cigarettes
Yeah, Christmas is coming closer and the Euroleague is in full force, right? Ricky plays again and immediately wins against Brandon. What better moment for some smoky cigarettes on a Monday morning? Even USA Today reported (through Jonathan Givony) on the Ricky versus Brandon game. French magazine Basketnews reported a very nice story about the […]
Monday's Cigarettes
After a short version last Monday, we are back now with a full force of tasty, smoky cigarettes. “At the end of the day, it is here where I am doing what I always expected, what I was supposed to do when I was young, before the injury: to be a leader of one of […]
Yarone's Weekend Joints
Week 6, the beginning of the second leg in the regular season under the new format, was better than a big fat joint next to a banana-coconut shake with cream on top, on a Caribbean island with Beyonce whispering in your ear, “Did you enjoy my breakfast, darling?” as you’re already thinking about dinner. Ok, maybe not […]
Monday's cigarettes
Here we go for a new week with Euroleague action. But today, we have a very special women’s cigarette for you… …because Sylvia Fowles came up with a breakaway dunk in the Euroleague game between Spartak Moscow and Schio. KK Split and Cibona Zagreb met this weekend in the Adriatic League. And the least we […]
Monday's cigarettes
Let’s start the new week with some exciting stories from around the continent. Two of the best highflyers of the Spanish ACB met this weekend: Marcus Haislip of Unicaja and Pops Mensah-Bonsu of Joventut Badalona. And both guys had good games, especially Haislip, who finished with a 3-of-5 effort from behind the arc. Elie Seckbach, […]
Euroleague: DKV Joventut Badalona, Spain
Luis Fernandez can truly be considered as one of best experts in terms of youth basketball in Europe. He writes for Draftexpress as well as for acb.com and so we are more than happy to have his opinion on one of the most talented teams of the Euroleague when it comes to young prospects. Overall […]