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Bertans joins Grescrap Bilbao
Gescrap Bizkaia Bilbao Basket (Spain, ACB) has announced the signing of Latvian shooting guard Dairis Bertans (192 cm) from VEF Riga (Latvia, LBL).The 23-year old will join Bilbao for the…
Meiers to join Mitteldeutscher
Latvian big man Martins Meiers (208 cm) will get to spread his wings in Germany’s BBL with Mitteldeutscher BC Weissenfels. The 22-year-old Meiers has played his entire career in his…
VEF Riga are three-time Latvian champs!
Latvian basketball has now officially entered a “VEF Riga Dynasty” as the team has now won its third-straight Latvian League Championship. VEF Riga defeated BK Ventspils 100-81 in Game 5…
Karlis Muiznieks new head coach of Khimik
Karlis Muiznieks from Latvia will be the new head coach of Ukrainian team Khimik Yuzny. He replaces Serbian coach Zvezdan Mitrovic who took over as recently as past January. Muiznieks…
Despite loss, Ventspils wins BBL trophy
Off the strength of a 69:91 road win over Rudipis Prienai in the first game of the Baltic Basketball League (BBL) championships series, Ventspils was able to capture the title…
Jamar Diggs signs with Riga
American guard Jamar Diggs (187 cm, Wofford’11) has penned a deal with Latvian team BK Barons Kvartals Riga (LBL) until the end of the season. The 25-year old is in…
Rihards Kuksiks signs with Budivelnyk
Rihards Kuksiks (197 cm, Arizona State’11) has signed in Ukraine with Budivelnyk Kyiv. The Latvian guard started this season in Spain with ACB team Lagun Aro Gipuzkoa BC. He averaged…
Pierce Caldwell moves to Liepajas
Pierce Caldwell (191 cm, Incarnate Word’10) has left Krybasbasket-Lux Kryvyi Rih from Ukraine’s Superleague and joins Leipajas Lauvas from Latvia’s LBL. He transfers to Leipajas after playing 17 games for…
Justin Hamilton moves to Riga, but…..
- VEF Riga (Latvia, LBL and VTB United League) have captured American center Justin Hamilton (210 cm, Louisiana State’2012), he had left Adriatic league team Cibona Zagreb from Croatia this…
Maris Gulbis named BBL Player of the Month
RIGA – Having guided Barons kvartals to a third-place finish in Group C and a spot in the Top 16, Maris Gulbis received the Baltic Basketball League Player of the Month…
Fuenlabrada signs Kristaps Valters
Spanish ACB team Baloncesto Fuenlabrada announced the return of Latvian player Kristaps Valters for this season and the next one. Kristaps Valters played with Fuenlabrada before during the 2010/2011 season…
Vernon Teel trys out with Ventspils
Vernon Teel (1.93m, college: Loyola Marymount) has joined Ventspils (Latvia-LBL) for a tryout. Teel played for the London Leopards (United Kingdom-EBL D1) where he led the EBL D1 in scoring…
EuroChallenge 2013 begins with Qualifying
EuroChallenge 2013 is set to begin today with the first Qualifying Round contests. Eight teams will battle for four spots in the regular season with home and away games to determine…
BBL Groupings released for 2012-13
The Baltic Basketball League (BBL) has released the league groupings for the upcoming season. The league will consist of 23 teams, broken up into four groups. The first day of…
Sandis Valters inks two-year deal with BK Ventspils
Sandis Valters has agreed to a two-year contract with BK Ventspils (Latvia-LBL) for the upcoming season. Valters (1.93m) averaged 10.3 points and 2.6 assists per game last season for VEF…
Kristaps Valters back in Bundesliga. Signs with Artland.
Kristaps Valters (190 cm) is back in the Bundesliga. The Latvian guard has signed with German team Artland Dragons, where he will temporarily replace the injured Demond Mallet. Last season…
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…
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…
Shrinking Baltic League merges two divisions
The Basketball League (BBL) is changing the format for the upcoming season by merging the two divisions (Elite and Challenge Cup). It means that the total number of teams competing…
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…
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