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Comeback kings Karsiyaka beat Efes to take 3-1 lead in Turkish finals

Never count out Pinar Karsiyaka, that was the lesson on Tuesday night as an epic comeback from 15 points down saw them beat Anadolu Efes 91-88 in overtime to take a 3-1 lead in the Turkish Finals After 70 minutes of looking ordinary in the last two games, it only took 15 more to be […]

7 years ago More

On Panionios BC and the future of Greek basketball

After defending Euroleague champions Olympiacos took care of business in an 85-81 win over Caja Laboral Baskonia last week, Greece-based media outlet Ekathimerini spun their game wrap under the headline “Greek stars gift Reds opening Euroleague win.” Indeed, last year’s heroes Giorgos Printezis and Vassilis Spanoulis were instrumental in the comeback victory, providing 33 points […]

10 years ago 8 More

Euroleague Power Rankings: 2012-13 Opening Day Edition

All right, it’s that time again! With hours to go before the 2012-13 Euroleague season tips off, BallinEurope breaks out its first power ratings for the big league. Whereas normally a disclaimer to the effect of “the following ratings are based on current trending only and are not necessarily based on the overall quality of […]

10 years ago 61 More

Red reign forecast? Olympiacos on brink of Greek title after beating Panathinaikos, 84-72

Olympiacos shrugged off both history and the Dimitris Diamantidis-Mike Batiste duo last night in taking game three of the Greek League championship series over rivals Panathinaikos, 84-72. With a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five series, the Reds are poised to take its first domestic league title since 1997; historians will of course note that ’97 […]

10 years ago 3 More

Panathinaikos tops Maccabi Tel Aviv, 86-85 to advance; Greens to take on Red Army, history in Istanbul

The 2011-12 Euroleague Final Four field is now filled, as Panathinaikos’ cliffhanger of an 86-85 win against Maccabi Tel Aviv last night sets up a May date with the monsters of CSKA Moscow in Istanbul. (And now, a slight bit of horn-tooting. Note a few Official BallinEurope Fearless Predictions™ made good, i.e. Dimitris Diamantidis as […]

10 years ago 1 More

Lietuvos Rytas 68, Panathinaikos 67: How do you say “Khalid El-Amin rules!” in Lithuanian?

Forget Jeremy Pargo, Vassilis Spanoulis and even mighty Sofoklis; instead consider: Could Khalid El-Amin have been the best Euroleague free-agent signing of 2010-11? The former U. Conn Husky/journeyman of Turkey and Ukraine once again applied the dagger with two free throws for his 10th and 11th points of the game, beautifully facilitated ball movement and […]

12 years ago 5 More

The Frank Euroleague roundup, week two

Francesco Cappelletti’s regular column with BallinEurope is back as our man in Italy takes a look at the after-effects of Euroleague week two action. This time out, Francesco sees European basketball history returning to the old days on the Continent while Balkan squads fight economic problems but dispatch Western European teams anyway. And early on, […]

12 years ago 2 More

Official BallinEurope Euroleague Power Rankings: Final preseason edition

The 2010-11 Euroleague season tips off tomorrow? Right, then. Presenting the last preseason – and thus last totally subjective, because we’ll be able to base these things on, you know, wins and losses beginning next week – BallinEurope Official Euroleague Power Rankings™. (Plus lots of video clips.) Enjoy! 1. (↔) FC Barcelona – Yeah, as […]

12 years ago 6 More

Team Greece's FIBA World Championship preliminary roster announced: No Papaloukas, still scary

The preliminary Team Greece roster of 17 players has been announced and, despite the notable exclusion of Theo Papaloukas, the 2006 FIBA World Championship silver medalists are bringing quite the squad to the 2010 edition of the competition. EΣAKE’s two most celebrated franchises are naturally well-represented, with six Panathinaikos players and five from Olympiacos making […]

12 years ago 5 More

2010 FIBA World Championship odds: Looking for a dark horse {advertorial}

So call BallinEurope kooky: While everyone else with an eye on basketball – even European basketball, for Arvydas Sabonis’ sake – is concentrating on the NBA free-agent market, BiE is all attention on the 2010 FIBA World Championship for Men tipping off in Turkey in August. Naturally, bookmakers too are into it and the early […]

12 years ago 3 More

The Frank Euroleague roundup, week six

Wrapping up and putting a bow on week six of Euroleague basketball is BallinEurope’s man in Italy, Francesco Cappelletti, who today writes of Kleiza & Papaloukas, the Partizan player-making machine, and the league’s three biggest flops thus far in 2009-10. Dear old Theo Linas Kleiza has made us witnesses to what a former NBA sixth […]

13 years ago More

Betting on basketball: Early EuroBasket 2009 Group A odds

The proliferation of the internet has created a veritable legion of sports experts: Maybe millions have a take on this week’s games, next month’s standings, the eventual tournament champion … so, assuming you have no access to top-secret insider information, who should you trust in attempting to brazenly predict tomorrow’s outcome? Easy: The oddsmakers. Why? […]

13 years ago 1 More
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