2023-02-15
As the final stretch of the 2022-23 EuroLeague Regular Season approaches, the race is not only heating up for the playoffs but also for the individual awards that are handed out at the end of the campaign. The list of leading candidates for the EuroLeague Best Defender Award includes guards and big men all of whom have left their mark through unrelenting defense this season.
2023-02-15
Gilbert Arenas has been out of the NBA for more than 10 years now but he rarely misses a chance to speak on the current matters in the strongest basketball league. Most recently, Agent Zero, as Arenas is known, went on a show "Game Theory with Bomani Jones" where he spoke about the incident where Ja Morant's entourage was investigated for allegedly pointing a gun at an Indiana Pacers bus.
2023-02-15
Mario Hezonja spent five seasons in the NBA after getting drafted 5th overall in the 2015 NBA Draft. He's now in his third year in Europe, and he couldn't be happier, he says. The first three seasons in the strongest basketball league were spent with Orlando Magic. Hezonja is clear - he didn't like it there at all.
2023-02-15
Dante Exum spent the first seven years of his professional career in the NBA. In the middle of last year's season, the Australian guard decided to move to Europe where he's stayed ever since.
2023-02-15
The practice of load management has become more prevalent in the NBA in recent times. With the current Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) coming to an end, the league is looking for ways to solve it.
2023-02-15
After being part of two NBA teams during this season already, Reggie Jackson has found his new home. The Denver Nuggets have officially announced that the 32-year-old guard is joining the team. The player previously moved from the Los Angeles Clippers to the Charlotte Hornets before the February 9th deadline in a deal that saw the exchange between him and center Mason Plumlee.
2023-02-15
Andrew Andrews hasn't played an official game for Panathinaikos Athens since the end of October. The resolution between the sides is now finally coming to fruition. First reported by Ioannis Psarakis from BNSports, the guard is ready to receive a significant amount of his two-year contract's money and mutually end the deal with the team.
2023-02-14
After five years of mainly being his own representative while negotiating contracts and various other deals, James Harden has decided to change things up.
2023-02-14
Giannis Antetokounmpo is a two-time NBA MVP, an NBA champion, and an NBA Finals MVP. He's now decided to monetize his fame. A week ago (February 7th, 2023), the Greek superstar filed three trademarks in the United States Patent and Trademark Office:
2023-02-14
The NBA All-Star Three-Point Contest is going to take place this upcoming Saturday. All eight participants have been revealed.
2023-02-14
The Argentinian national team will receive a huge upgrade in the FIBA World Cup 2023 Qualifiers. Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade's president Nebojsa Covic has announced that Facundo Campazzo will compete for this country's colors in the upcoming international tournament.
2023-02-14
Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade have previously threatened to not participate in the Serbian basketball cup. The club's president has announced the team's final decision. Crvena Zvezda will compete in the Radivoj Korac Cup in Nis this week, president Nebojsa Covic announced in a special press conference.
2023-02-14
Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade made a blockbuster move last December and acquired Facundo Campazzo who previously played for the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA.
2023-02-14
Jaycee Carroll's exit from Real Madrid was strange. Although he didn't play last season, he was still being included in the team's roster. The player has now revealed the backstory behind it.
2023-02-14
In most cases, the very first matchup between the projected first and second pick in the NBA Draft is supposed to happen when both are already playing in the league. However, that's not the case with Victor Wembanyama and Scoot Henderson, widely considered the two frontrunners for the top two spots in the 2023 draft. 
2023-02-14
The Spanish Copa del Rey mini-tournament starts in a couple of days. While the basketball fans are waiting for the matches to begin, the coaches and general managers of the teams that did not get the chance to compete in Badalona have provided their opinion on which teams should succeed.
2023-02-14
After eight years at Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul, Jan Vesely headed to FC Barcelona with the goal of winning his second EuroLeague trophy.  "That's the reason why I came here, to win the EuroLeague. We have a great team and I believe that with this team we can win," Vesely told AS.
2023-02-14
A first-round pick of NBA Draft in 2019, Goga Bitadze had lost his place in the Indiana Pacers rotation and was waived by the franchise last Thursday. His $4,765,339 team option for this season was exercised in October 2021. This was part of the four-year, $13.64 million rookie scale contract Bitadze signed with the Pacers four years ago.
2023-02-14
After the victories against Great Britain and Turkey in November, Serbia NT have two more qualifying games to play in order to officially seal their pass for the 2023 FIBA World Cup, which will be held this summer in Japan, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
2023-02-14
Is this the end of the Tony Parker era at LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne? According to information from L'Equipe, the four-time NBA champion and majority shareholder of the French club would like to sell his share. Parker, a minority shareholder from 2009 until 2014, when he took over big-time, has long been thinking about his next move.
2023-02-14
Ability to kiss the rim, the recreation of the iconic Olympic slam over Frederic Weis, the highest vertical leap (46 inches, 117 cm) ever measured by the NBA, and in-game slams that you could rarely see in the dunk contests. That's a short bio of Prometey Slobozhanske dunk machine DJ Stephens.
2023-02-14
The Washington Wizards' second all-time leading scorer Bradley Beal was fined $25,000 on Monday for making contact with an official during Saturday's win against the Indiana Pacers. Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Monday for making contact with a game official after knocking a referee into an empty front-row seat.
2023-02-14
Kyrie Irving isn't interested in talking about what his long-term future could be with the Dallas Mavericks, and he doesn't understand why people don't think he can play well off the ball. "All I know, this is really playing basketball with a lot of high-level, high-IQ players and making it work," Irving said before his first home game with the Mavericks and All-Star teammate Luka Doncic.
2023-02-13
Newly acquired Golden State guard Gary Payton II will be out for at least a month as he fully recovers from offseason surgery for a core muscle injury, and Warriors general manager Bob Myers is awaiting a decision from the NBA on whether the Trail Blazers withheld anything on Payton's health before trading him.
2023-02-13
Thomas Walkup and Olympiacos Piraeus look like a match made in heaven. The Texas-born guard and the Greek side joined forces in 2021, but it's highly likely that their collaboration will not end anytime soon.
2023-02-13
Panathinaikos Athens suffered an injury scare a few days before the Greek Cup tournament in Heraklion, Crete. PAO newcomer Matt Thomas was elbowed in the head area during Monday's Greek league win vs. Promitheas Patras (87-79). After the game finished, Thomas was taken straight for medical tests to determine the extent of the injury.
2023-02-13
Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade head coach Zeljko Obradovic faced a difficult decision and had to leave two players without Serbian passports out of the team before Radivoj Korac Cup. The Serbian Cup competition has a foreigners limit which means that only four foreign players can be registered for the tournament. Therefore Ioannis Papapetrou and Yam Madar did not make the 12-man cut.
2023-02-13
Justin Holiday has agreed to a buyout arrangement with the Houston Rockets and plans to sign with the Dallas Mavericks when he clears waivers, according to Brian Windhorst of ESPN. The Mavs had shifted from Terrence Ross to the pursuit of Justin Holiday in the buyout market, per Marc Stein.
2023-02-13
Pistons forward Bojan Bogdanovic was a target of roughly a dozen NBA teams during the trade window, who offered first- or second-rounders for Detroit, but the franchise showed no urgency about moving the Croatian veteran.
2023-02-13
The Philadelphia 76ers are signing free agent center Dewayne Dedmon for the rest of the season, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN. The Sixers had been active in the buyout market to find another center and land on Dedmon, who spent the past three seasons with the Miami Heat. He returns to Philadelphia after playing here in 2014 and competing in 11 duels.
2023-02-13
With the EuroLeague putting on a temporary break, local European basketball cups come to the spotlight. With both Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade and Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade in the EuroLeague for the first time in 9 years, the Serbian Cup - Radivoj Korac Cup - is set to be very intriguing.
2023-02-13
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2023-02-13
Following the suspension of Round 24 games played in Turkey due to the earthquakes that struck the country, the following games have been rescheduled to be played on the stated new dates and times. For all four teams, it will be an extra double-round week. After the game vs. Real, Anadolu Efes will host Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade on March 16 at 18:30 CET.
2023-02-13
Jared Harper is one of those cases of American imports that come to Europe and fall in love with the way the game is played in the Old Continent. So much so that in their eyes, the NBA, a realm some of them know too well, lacks some things Europeans tend to take for granted.  "I really didn't expect to see everyone play every single possession so hard," the American guard tells BasketNews.
2023-02-13
February is the month of domestic cups, and Germany is no exception. This year, Oldenburg will host the German Cup Final Four on February 18 and 19. This time, in contrast to last year, when FC Bayern did not even make it to the semifinals, all the favorites have prevailed and will compete for the Cup trophy.
2023-02-13
Olympiacos Piraeus forwards Tarik Black and Joel Bolomboy became the victims of Athens thieves. The Greek media reports that in the early hours of Monday, unidentified people broke into a parked vehicle in the center of Athens. As it turned out, the car belonged to one of the players.
2023-02-13
BasketNews’ Donatas Urbonas, Rytis Vysniauskas and Augustas Suliauskas answer BN+ members and public questions, including NBA trade reactions, EuroLeague Top 8 predictions and the best European fit for Dwight Howard. Topics: You can follow Urbonus on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Podbean and wherever you get your podcasts.
2023-02-13
All around Europe, it's time for a little break in the domestic leagues, which will be filled by the local cups. Teams will fight for the first domestic title of the season in just a few days. The tension and the excitement that the domestic cups generate are something that can't usually be found during the regular season of the local leagues. 
2023-02-13
All around Europe, it's a time for a little break in the domestic leagues, which will be filled by the local cups, and Copa del Rey Basketball, or simply the Spanish Basketball Cup, is no exception.
2023-02-13
All around Europe, it's time for a little break in the domestic leagues, which will be filled by the local cups, and the Greek Cup is no exception.   In just a few days, teams will fight for the first domestic title of the season. The tension and the excitement that the domestic cups generate are something that can't usually be found during the regular season of the local leagues.  
2023-02-13
The Cleveland Cavaliers are expected to finalize a contract agreement with veteran swingman Danny Green, Shams Charania from The Athletic reports. According to the report, Green will sign a 1-year, $2 million deal with Cleveland. A three-time NBA champion, Green began his pro career with Cleveland in 2009.
2023-02-13
The Golden State Warriors have decided to go through with the completion of a trade to acquire Gary Payton II from the Portland Trail Blazers despite concerns that arose surrounding the guard's health following offseason surgery for a core muscle injury that sidelined him until last month.
2023-02-12
The FIBA Intercontinental Cup came to a close on Sunday in the Santiago Martin Arena in San Cristobal de La Laguna, Tenerife, when the hosts Lenovo Tenerife took on Sao Paulo, the BCL Americas champions.
2023-02-12
Basketball Girona announced the termination of the contract of forward-center Pierre Oriola, who arrived from FC Barcelona last summer and was supposed to be one of the mainstays of the interior game of Aito Garcia Reneses' team.
2023-02-12
New Orleans Pelicans head coach David Griffin said Sunday that All-Star forward Zion Williamson reaggravated his hamstring injury and will miss additional weeks following the All-Star break.
2023-02-12
Last night, The Athletic reported that Golden State Warriors' Gary Payton II could miss two to three months after a muscle problem in his abdomen, putting the deal of four teams between GSW, Detroit Pistons, Atlanta Hawks and Portland Trail Blazers in jeopardy.
2023-02-12
James Harden said Saturday that he sensed a dysfunctionality during his brief tenure with the Brooklyn Nets, so he's not surprised that Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving have also forced their way out of the team.
2023-02-12
As the death toll in Turkey and Syria continues to rise following the huge earthquake that shook the two countries, another athlete has been added to the victims. It has been announced that Nilay Aydogan, the national player of Cankaya University, one of the women's Basketball Super League teams, and her grandmother Hacer Aydogan, lost their lives in the earthquake disaster.
2023-02-12
Jeremy Lin made his professional basketball debut in Taiwan, attracting 5,321 fans to watch the game.
2023-02-12
Walter Tavares' current contract with Real Madrid expires in June 2024. However, the first contact on a possible extension that was carried out a few weeks ago, has resulted in a considerable distance between the two parties, according to Marca.
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