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How Do Top Euroleague Coaches Measure Up To The NBA?

This is a guest post from Max Kesler of Hoopsbeast, check out his site and follow him on Twitter. Max is fascinated by coaching and shared this piece about how the best in Europe compared to their counterparts in the NBA The EuroLeague is widely considered to be the second best basketball league in the […]

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No longer the bridesmaids, Efes make Euroleague final

After more than two decades of being reminded time and again that they just didn’t belong competing for the big titles, Anadolu Efes bullied their way past Fenerbahce in the Fernando Buesa Arena with a dominant display to make a maiden Euroleague final. Emmet Ryan was on the scene When you control the tempo, when […]

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Preview: Real Madrid vs Fenerbahce

It all comes down to this. La Decima vs La Zocima. Real Madrid vs Fenerbahce. Master vs Pupil (again). The 2015 champions take on the 2017 champions in Belgrade to decide who emerges victorious and claims the title of champions of Euroleague. Emmet Ryan breaks down the action The story has been well told by […]

4 years ago More
 

Fener’s quest tied into La Zocima

Fenerbahce are looking to secure a second straight Euroleague title in Belgrade while Serbian native Zeljko Obradovic is hoping to both claim his first title in his homeland and 10th in his career. Emmet Ryan on La Zocima It was the job where if anyone was going to make it work, Zoc surely would. Zeljko […]

4 years ago More
 

Pat Burke – There and back again

Pat Burke stands alone as the only Irish born player in NBA history. Emmet Ryan sat down with the former Orlando Magic and Phoenix Suns big man to talk about his adventures in Europe with Panathinaikos, his fondness for Felipe Reyes, playing under Mike D’Antoni, and how he learned a lot about himself by realising […]

4 years ago More
 

Now that’s the Fenerbahce we were waiting for

It took more than half a season but, finally, Fenerbahce look something like the team that made it all the way to the Euroleague final last May. Emmet Ryan is cautiously optimistic for the Istanbul club after a big win over Panathinaikos The expectation this season was simple. Fenerbahce only had one step on the […]

6 years ago More
 

Emphatic Fenerbahce finish on a high

Fenerbahce needed to win the BSL title badly after their heartbreak in Berlin. Emmet Ryan writes that the manner of their triumph was the perfect climax to a big season Let’s all take in some context here. 14 months ago Fenerbahce had never even made it to a Final Four in Euroleague while no Turkish […]

6 years ago More

The Dish: Can I play with Madness?

It may be March Madness across the Atlantic but Euroleague served up plenty of insanity this week as the races for the final playoff spots entered crazy territory. Emmet Ryan breaks it all down. The story of this week should have been the return of Zeljko Obradovic to the OAKA and, in fairness, it was […]

9 years ago More

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 […]

9 years ago 1 More

FC Barcelona-Panathinaikos: The YouTube history (starring Gallis, Dominique, Obradovic, Saras, Pekovic, Diamantidis, Tomic)

Those in the know about European basketball (or sport, really) need no introduction to either of these storied franchises who add another chapter to the annals tonight: Panathinaikos Athens goes to Barcelona to take on the Blaugrana in a decisive game five Euroleague quarterfinal match – after one heck of a series thus far. Hyperbolization […]

9 years ago 1 More

Euroleague Basketball Institute recommends rule changes for “more free-flowing and rhythmic game”

The Euroleague and its Basketball Institute concluded its “Basketball Rules Summit” yesterday and today has put out a press release detailing some of the recommendations for future EL and Eurocup play. Said media communique follows. (Euroleague) – …The spirited two-day debate among 13 of the top coaches, players, referees, team and league executives, media, television […]

10 years ago 3 More

On Olympiacos Euroleague championship: From crises emerge heroes

European basketball fans know that history was made with Olympiacos’ stunning victory in the 2012 Euroleague championship. And so BallinEurope contributor, the self-proclaimed hoops history junkie Uygar Karaca looks back with perspective on the title bid, reaching all the back to the Great Depression of 1929 through the collapse of the Soviet Union and into […]

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