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“I am comin”: Iverson to Sydney Kings for 2012-13 season?
The Allen Iverson story gets more far-flung … at least on Twitter, great breeding ground for gossip and idle speculation. (BallinEurope loves Twitter.) With fewer than 140 characters, A.I. captured some media time in Australia yesterday with his tweet: “I hear Sydney is a real good city to live in. my boy Rodney O asked […]
Turnover City: Solving the mystery of Zalgiris Kaunas
“Do[es] all the little things with surprising grace and feeling – and an iron will to win.” – characterization of prototypical Lithuanian player in FreeDarko’s The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac BallinEurope’s latest obsession started with a tweet. Specifically, a message from BiE’s main Lithuanian, Martynas “Air” Pocius. Pocius retweeted a fascinating stat about his Žalgiris […]
Iverson wants out? Nope, says Twitter feed
Talk Basket may have started a wee bit of kerfuffle in Allen Iverson’s camp this weekend when the website stated point blank that “Iverson wants out” of his deal with Beşiktaş Cola Turka. Reads the entire shinola-stirring entry: “Allen Iverson has been criticized for his mediocre performances and the bad results of Besiktas, since the […]
Timofey Mozgov = Fred Weis; Blake Griffin = awesome
Since this thing has got everyone from ESPN ‘heads to DJ Steve Porter talking, sure, BiE’ll repost: From the epic (not) New York Knicks-Los Angeles Clippers game last night, Timofey Mozgov becomes Fred Weis 2.0 as Blake Griffin totally goes Vinsanity on his lane-clogging butt. How do you say “d’oh!” in Russian? For good measure, […]
Lebron touts wicked dunk from Germany
It isn’t every day that Lebron James turns on the masses to action from German basketball … much less anything from the lower divisions, but that changed last night. Tweeted King James: “Yo everybody check out this from my homie @marcus32johnson. WOW!! Ridiculous Man” Indeed, below the break you may witness a dunk teeming with […]
Secrets to Žalgiris’ early success in 2010-11
BallinEurope’s man from Lithuania, known on these pages as “Y,” was apparently so hyped up by Žalgiris Kaunas’ marvelous win over Caja Laboral Baskonia that he was inspired to assess the Green-and-Whites’ early success in 2010-11. For Y., it’s all about the coach and the bench… Unlike their arch-rivals from Vilnius, Lithuanian side Žalgiris Kaunas […]
Bricks, snickers and root canals: The week in Twitter
BallinEurope thinks he’s in love … with Twitter. (Yes, BiE knows he’s behind the times for this relevation, but still.) And so, for no better reasons than idle amusement and trying to justify a bit too much time spent over on *that site*, BiE presents a look at some of the top basketball-related tweets of […]
Bobby Brown gets a good job in Poland, tweets it up
Ah, the mysterious world of Twitter. A couple of days ago, word got out that NBA journeyman/former Alba Berlin guard Bobby Brown had been signed by Asseco Prokom for the 2010-11 season. The main source for the story – as is seemingly so often the case these days – was Brown’s own Twitter page. Unfortunately, […]
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 […]
Agent Zero on Twitter? Oh please, oh please…
Who wants more Gilbert Arenas? Hey, who doesn’t? But after Agent Zero shut down his Washington Post-hosted “Gilbert’s Blog” last year, internet missives from probably the greatest jock-blogger ever have been non-existent and Arenas himself has kept a low public profile. Yesterday, however, Zero’s fellow Washington Wizard JaVale McGee went on Twitter to state that […]
John Lucas III twitters about contract issues
John Lucas III arrived in Spain this May to play for one of the best teams in Europe, TAU Vitoria. Everything is going well, as Vitoria qualified for the semifinals in the local ACB league and Lucas is a important part of the team as backup point guard. Well, just until yesterday evening…
Cabezas the savior and Childress homesick (or not?)
With the NBA playoffs at full speed in the conference finals, the playoffs in various European domestic leagues are in their decisive phase, too. And the nerves of players and fans are on edge right now, as you can see through our short notes on what has happened during the past few days.