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Lukoil Academik now in VTB League
Lukoil Academik Sofia from Bulgaria’s NBL won the 2013 Bulgarian league title. This coming 2013-14 season the VTB United League will be welcoming them as a new addition to its ranks. This…
Academik wins Bulgarian NBL
Lukoil Academik clinched the Bulgarian NBL title for the 11th consecutive time with an 86-81 victory over Levski Sofia to …
Dejan Ivanov signs with Cimberio Varese
27-year-old Dejan Ivanov (205 cm) has been signed by Cimberio Varese from Italy’s Serie A. The Bulgarian player started the 2012-13 season playing for Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius from Lithuania’s LKL.…
Boris Bakovic joins BC Beroe
Boris Bakovic (201 cm) is now playing in Bulagaria’s NBL for BC Beroe. Bakovic, who was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina also holds a Canadian passport. He has already played…
Nemanja Protic moves to third team this season
Nemanja Protic (182 cm) has signed with Levski Sofia in the Bulgarian NBL. Protic started off the season in the Turkish TBL with Olin Edirne but only played three games…
Mladen Pantic Joins Sofia
Serbian center Mladen Pantic (209 cm) has signed a deal with Levski Sofia (Bulgaria, NBL and Balkan League) until the end of the season. Pantic started the 2012-2013 season in…
Devin Green parts ways with Lukoil
Devin Green (201 cm, Hampton’05), the experienced American swingman and former NBA player has been released by Lukoil Academic Sofia (Bulgaria, NBL) after joining the team at the start of…
Lukoil Academic announces Sasa Vezenkov as coach
Lukoil Academik Sofia (Lukoil Academic) of Bulgaria’s NBL have announced that its executive director Sasho Vezenkov will be the team’s coach for the remainder of the season. He will serve…
Filip Videnov leaves Russia for Turkey
Filip Videnov (196 cm, W. Kentucky’03) leaves his Russian team BC Nizhny Novgorod and signs a deal with Turkish team Olin Edirne. He already played for Edirne last year and…
Zoran Kascelan joins Tundja Yambol
Zoran Kascelan (188 cm) has joined Tundja Yambol (Bulgaria-NBL) for the rest of the 2012-13 season. Kascelan started the season with SL Takovo Leotar Trebinje (Bosnia-Division I), averaging 12.9 points and 5.9 assists per…
Bojan Popovic joins Sofia
Bojan Popovic (191 cm) has joined Lukoil Academik Sofia (Bulgaria-NBL) for the rest of the season. In 2011-12 Popovic suited up for Crvena Zvezda Beograd (Serbia-A League), where he played in…
Mohamed Abukar released by Lukoil
Mohamed Abukar (208 cm, San Diego State’06) has been released by Lukoil Academic Sofia (Bulgaria-NBL) after the club’s first 13 contests. In six EuroCup games Abukar contributed 13.8 points per game…
Euroleague Qualifier: Semi-Finals are set
Day two of the 2012 Euroleague Qualifier is now in the books and the Semi-Finals are set: CEZ Basketball Nymburk (CZE) vs. Pallacanstro Cantu (ITA) and Unics Kazan (RUS) vs.…
Euroleague Qualifier: Cantu and Nymburk move on
The 2012 Euroleague season saw it’s first competition yesterday as two qualifying round games were contested. At stake is one slot in Group A of the Euroleague, the seven other…
EuroBasket 2013: The Field is Set with 24 Teams
As the final games of the EuroBasket 2013 Qualification Round were getting ready to start, there no doubt were pencils being sharpened, calculator batteries being checked, spreadsheets getting fired up…
EuroBasket 2013: 6 Spots, 10 Teams, Tip Time!
The EuroBasket 2013 Qualification round is about to be committed to the history books, but before they start planning for the Final Round, there’s a game or two left to…
EuroBasket 2013: Georgia qualifies, six left
Georgia took advantage of game eight of the EuroBasket 2013 Qualification Round to punch their tickets to the Finals with a 73-70 win over Latvia. Georgia was the only team…
EuroBasket 2013: Game Eight Scenarios
Today marks game eight in the EuroBasket 2013 Qualifications and with only nine teams assured of spots in the Finals next September in Slovenia, the possible scenarios for which teams…
Rosen Barchovski resigns as Bulgaria’s National Team Coach
Rosen Barchovski has announced that after the final two games of the EuroBasket 2013 Qualification series that he will step down as the coach of the Bulgarian National Team. In…
EuroBasket 2013: Four more qualify, eight to go
Coming in to today’s EuroBasket 2013 Qualifiers four teams had their chance to earn spots, unfortunately, only Germany was able to take advantage, but three more, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina,…
EuroBasket 2013: Four Tickets on the Table
The EuroBasket 2013 Qualifiers move to game eight with four teams already knowing that they will be playing in Slovenia next September. Montenegro, Italy, Croatia and Ukraine all locked up…
EuroBasket 2013: Four Down, Eight to Go…
Very seldom does it happen that when you play the “what if…” game, do all those, “what ifs…” actually happen. Today, in the EuroBasket 2013 Qualifiers there were four teams…
EuroBasket 2013: Four could qualify today
As the EuroBasket 2013 Qualifications games continue today around Europe, the teams are mindful of the fact that the top two teams in each of the six divisions will qualify…
Thomas Massamba sings for Lukoil
Swedish point guard Thomas Massamba (185 cm) has signed for Bulgarian top-team Lukoil Akademik from Sofia. Massamba played the last two seasons for InterCollege Etha Engomis from Cyprus. He played…
U18 European Championship Semis are Set
The semifinals of the U18 European Championships are set for today. Lithuania will play Serbia in the first contest, and Russia will square off with Croatia in the nightcap. Russia…
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