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Busy midseason transfer market

Busy midseason transfer market

Posted 04 January 2010 | By J. | Categories: ALBA, Aris, Euroleague, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Olympiacos, notes, statistics | 1 Comment

While Euroleague and EuroCup have been taking a Christmas/New Year’s break, the winter transfer market has been fairly busy. Especially in Greece, where Olympiacos acquired Scoony Penn, while Aris signed Ivan Paunic at the expense of Juan Dixon, and Dragan Labovic at power forward. Finally, no Jeremiah Massey for them. Meanwhile, Maccabi is…

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 | 4 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 German BBL season

Reviewing the 08/09 German BBL season

Posted 13 July 2009 | By J. | Categories: ALBA, Domestic leagues, German League, Oldenburg | 2 Comments

Another BBL season, another – for the sixth year in a row – new champion. This time EWE Baskets Oldenburg took the crown in the final seconds of Game 5 of the BBL Finals, beating Telekom Baskets Bonn, who had been up by three 23 seconds from the buzzer when their point…

ALBA gets the last wildcard

ALBA gets the last wildcard

Posted 23 June 2009 | By J. | Categories: ALBA, Euroleague, Euroleague System | 5 Comments

Euroleague has just made official that ALBA Berlin is indeed going to receive the remaining wildcard for the preliminaries. This comes only hours after the news that BC Khimki Moscow will receive the C-licence-wildcard, meaning direct qualification for the Euroleague regular season. The Euroleague Shareholders Executive board is currently holding meetings in Barcelona.…

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 | 1 Comment

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,…

Economic situation in European basketball: Germany

Economic situation in European basketball: Germany

Posted 15 June 2009 | By J. | Categories: ALBA, Domestic leagues, German League, Oldenburg | 8 Comments

Recently a request for information on the economic situation of  German Basketball Bundesliga was posted on Interbasket forums. In the game would like to present you with an in depth review of the clubs’ situation written by German basketball blogger Gruebler. About a year ago, he wrote a longer post about multiple issues…

Euroleague Gameday 3: TAU Vitoria vs. ALBA Berlin

Posted 10 November 2008 | By J. | Categories: ALBA, Caja Laboral, Euroleague, game reports | No Comments
With key players Julius Jenkins and Patrick Femerling absent due to injury and regarding TAU’s scary home record – they have lost only one Euroleague game in Fernando Bueso Arena (to CSKA) in more than 31 months – the German champions did not expect much prior to this Euroleague