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Weekend Roundup 26-10-2009: 16 year old Chrysikopoulos debuts in Greek A1

Weekend Roundup 26-10-2009: 16 year old Chrysikopoulos debuts in Greek A1

Posted 26 October 2009 | By J. | Categories: ASVEL, Adrialeague, Aris, Barcelona, Domestic leagues, French League, German League, Greek League, NBA, Russian League, Spanish League, Turkish League | View Comments

Again I am summarising league action from all around Europe for you, referring to the most important games and just about everything else I take notice of. The last significant domestic basketball league to tip off its regular season was Greek A1, where the first gameday was highlighted by the appearance of a…

09/10 Euroleague rosters revisited

09/10 Euroleague rosters revisited

Posted 27 August 2009 | By J. | Categories: AJ Milano, ALBA, ASVEL, Aris, Barcelona, Benetton, CSKA, Caja Laboral, Charleroi, Cibona, Efes, Euroleague, Fenerbahce Ulker, Khimki, Le Mans, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Maroussi, Montepaschi, Oldenburg, Olympiacos, Panathinaikos, Partizan, Prokom, Real Madrid, Rytas, Unicaja, Union Olimpija, Zalgiris | View Comments

The European basketball transfer summer started slowly, but by the end of August, a large majority of the Euroleague rosters are already complete. Wasn’t it supposed to take a little bit longer? One of the two big remaining questions are A) the future whereabouts of Ricky Rubio, B) what surprise Olympiacos is going…

Reviewing the 08/09 French ProA season

Reviewing the 08/09 French ProA season

Posted 26 July 2009 | By J. | Categories: ASVEL, Domestic leagues, French League, Le Mans | View Comments

After NLB and German BBL, Christophe Ney of Europeanprospects and former owner of Ballineurope is presenting us with a very interesting summary of the 08/09 French Pro A league.

ASVEL Villeurbanne won its 17th French Championship this season, the first one since 2002, after beating EO45 Orléans in the one-game final…

A too early evaluation of the 2009 summer transfer movement

A too early evaluation of the 2009 summer transfer movement

Posted 16 July 2009 | By J. | Categories: AJ Milano, ASVEL, Barcelona, CSKA, Caja Laboral, Efes, Euroleague, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Montepaschi, Olympiacos, Panathinaikos, Partizan, Real Madrid, Unicaja, Zalgiris | View Comments

It would be wrong to draw early conclusions from the 2009 offseason in Euroleague basketball with more than two months to go before most domestic leagues start. Which is exactly why I’ll do it.

There is usually a topic, a tag which you can assign to a summer of basketball transfers.…

Who gets the wildcard?

Who gets the wildcard?

Posted 20 June 2009 | By J. | Categories: ALBA, ASVEL, Aris, Euroleague, Euroleague System, French League, Humor, Le Mans | View Comments

With all domestic leagues finally coming to an end next week, a serious question arises: Who will receive the Euroleague wildcard? Is it everybody’s darling ALBA Berlin, 2nd in Euroleague attendance last season, is it a club from Greece, where budgets are rather going down than up, is it a team from ACB,…