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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…

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…

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…

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.…

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,…

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…

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