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The Coaches Defining the 2025 Euroleague Final Four
The Euroleague Final Four is a showcase for the star players but Abu Dhabi will also feature four great minds of the game. Emmet Ryan on the men that will make the big decisions from the sidelines. It’s time to meet the head coaches: Ergin Ataman (Panathinaikos), Georgios Bartzokas (Olympiacos), Sarunas Jasikevicius (Fenerbahce), and Vassilis […]
Vassilis Spanoulis and Monaco’s tasty Final Four Journey
AS Monaco has made it back to the Euroleague Final Four, with Vassilis Spanoulis at the helm this time in Abu Dhabi. While a relative newcomer in the upper echelons of the sport, they are primed to take its ultimate prize. There are two things everyone knows about Monaco, the place. It’s tiny and there’s […]
Vassilis Spanoulis and Peristeri look to crash the Spanish party in Belgrade
With the final four of the Basketball Champions League coming up this weekend, Vassilis Spanoulis is in familiar territory. The Greek legend is synonymous with Final Four appearances. This may not be Euroleague but bringing Peristeri to Basketball Champions League glory would be quite a triumph early in his coaching career. It’s Kill Bill in […]
Basketball stars as WWE Superstars
With Dwight Howard trying out for WWE and it being a holiday weekend in Ireland, there’s no better time for BiE to work out what ballers would work out well in the land of synthetic sports Dwight Howard spent a full five hours at the WWE Performance Center on Thursday as part of an open […]
Euroleague Final Four players as WWE stars
There will be many serious analytical pieces about the Final Four on BiE in the run-up to Istanbul. This is not one of those pieces. Emmet Ryan looks at players across all four teams competing in Istanbul and finds their equivalent in the squared circle Pero Antic – The Big Show Bearded and skinheaded: Check […]
Diamantidis goes down like a champion
The end came for Dimitris Diamantidis last night in the OAKA. Emmet Ryan writes how the way in which his career was a perfect send off for the Panathinaikos legend Going out on top is wildly over-rated. With champions, people who have consistently got the big one over the course of their career, it leaves […]
VIDEO: Nick Calathes wants Spanoulis to stay
With word that Greece’s veterans are retiring from the national team, including Vassilis Spanoulis, Nick Calathes told BallinEurope that he hopes the Olympiacos man and all of his team comes back for the Olympic qualifiers next year. Watch the full interview below. BallinEurope is in the running for two awards at Blog Awards Ireland. Go […]
Third quarter surge sees Greece past Belgium and into quarters
A switch to a smaller line-up proved crucial as Greece overcame Belgium to reach the quarter finals, writes Emmet Ryan Belgium and Greece enterted the cavernous Stade Pierre Mauroy for the second of Saturday’s last 16 games. The new format adds a touch of extra drama to proceedings, with the losers this weekend effectively out […]
Real Madrid end 20 year famine to win Euroleague title
Real Madrid survived a third quarter charge by Olympiacos and shut down Vassilis Spanoulis to end a 20 year wait and win the Euroleague title for 2014/15. Emmet Ryan reports from the Barclaycard Centre. Whatever amount of Real and Olympiacos fans were in the house on Friday, their numbers had clearly surged for this one. […]
Spanoulis, Diamantidis, Navarro, more talk about NBA 2K14
Euroleague got some of the biggest names in the game together in Madrid to try out NBA 2K14 which, in case you’ve been away from every form of media, will feature 14 Euroleague teams this season. Os has already got his copy pre-ordered, once herself gives me permission I’ll be getting my own copy, and […]
From the free-for-all: Last week’s top five Euroleague acquisitions (plus one from the NBA)
Has it really been almost two months since the Euroleague Final Four? And when did the seasons in Spain, Greece, Italy and the NBA finish up? Time gets exceedingly relative and outright bendy once offseason transactioneering begins as memories of the previous year are quickly disposed for a look to the next and the money […]
“Say it ain’t so, Vassilis!” Report says Spanoulis could sign with CSKA Moscow
No, really. Man-in-the-know Emiliano Carchia of Sportando this morning reports that two-time Euroleague champion Vassilis Spanoulis, with his Olympiacos contract expiring in June, has been receiving overtures from a couple of top European clubs, but most especially from the team he’s helped eliminate from the EL playoffs two years running: CSKA Moscow. To no one’s […]