Best four days of the year. Yep. They’re here. And while you watch Doug McDermott, Victor Oladipo, Kendall Williams, Baye Moussa Keita and friends this weekend, you will be tempted to bat around their NBA prospects. [Read more…]
If Anadolu Efes is supposed to have merit as a contender, they sure aren’t supposed to let a team with ten losses take them to overtime in their own building. But for a second straight week, Jordan Farmar scored 20-something and Istanbul’s darlings resisted the urge to tumble into their old ways, closing it out against Bamberg 89-86. [Read more…]
Nikola Mirotic’s 31 points and 11 rebounds in Real Madrid’s 105-104 overtime win at Zalgiris were career highs. His performance from the free throw line was an all-time Euroleague best: 18-for-18. [Read more…]
From nba.com/warriors After spending half of a season in Israel with Maccabi Tel-Aviv, Malcolm Thomas managed to turn a one game stint in the D-League into a 10-day contract with the Golden State Warriors. After scoring 13 points and 17 rebounds in his only appearance for the Los Angeles D-Fenders, Thomas was able to convince the Warriors brass he was worth a closer look. I have been watching his career take a dip this season in Israel, and I
In the game’s 38th minute, Alba Berlin’s Ali Traore floated one in from six feet to put the Germans ahead of Anadolu Efes 83-81. Down two on the road with the clock hanging around the two-minute mark, the team that we’d all been waiting on to fail had its chance. [Read more…]
In four years as a Kansas Jayhawk, Sasha Kaun never averaged more than 5.6 shots a game. He needed just six against Panathinaikos to rack up the Euroleague’s weekly MVP award. [Read more…]
Since the days of Arvydas Sabonis, NBA teams have been drafting European players with the intention of stashing these prospects in the mother continent before they make their NBA debut. Some of these players go on to be stars, such as Manu Ginobili, Ricky Rubio and Marc Gasol. Others, such as Milos Vujanic and Frederic Weis, never even smell the league. [Read more…]
Rudy Fernandez and Jaycee Carroll combined for 51 of Real Madrid’s 86 points and everyone got what they wanted except CSKA Moscow, who lost to the Spaniards in Spain in overtime, 86-78, on a court that was painted blue and red. [Read more…]