Vlado Ilievski joins CEZ Nymburk

Czech Republic team CEZ Nymburk has agreed to terms with veteran international player Vlado Ilievski (190 cm) and will be bringing him in for the 2013-14 season. The 33-year-old is from F.Y.R. Macedonia and also has Slovenian citizenship. Vlado has been a long time member of the F.Y.R. Macedonian National Team in 1998 to 2003,…

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Ashton Mitchell signed by BK Kolin

Ashton Mitchell (183 cm, Sam Houston State’10) is on his way to the Czech Republic after coming to terms with NBL club BK Kolin. Mitchell missed the 2012-3 season and his last recorded action was in 2011-12. In 2011-12 he was playing in the NBA D-League for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers. Ashton played a…

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Imad Qahwash joins Jindrichuv Hradec

Czech Republic team BK Lions Jindrichuv Hradec have added Imad Qahwash (188 cm, Central Arkansas’11) for the 2013-14 season. The 26-year-old Imad is a Jordanian-born Canadian player who has represented Jordan as a member of Jordanian National Team from 2007 to 2011. Qahwash spent the 2012-13 season playing in China’s CBA where he suited up…

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Marcus Smallwood leaves Jindrichuv Hradec

Marcus Smallwood (200 cm, Northern Illinois’04) is leaving the Czech Republic team BK Lions Jindrichuv Hradec. Smallwood is leaving the team to return to the USA due to family reasons. He had already played in one game during his try-out period and was productive with a double-double, scoring 11 points while grabbing 10 boards in…

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Martin Rancik signs with CEZ Nymburk

Veteran of Spanish pro hoops Martin Rancik (204 cm, Iowa State’01) will be playing in the Czech Republic this 2013-14. The 35-year-old Slovakian player has been added by CEZ Basketball Nymburk (NBL) for the season. He’s been a member of the Slovakian National Team from 1999 to 2003 and then again in 2010. Even though…

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Chad Barnes moves back to BK Kolin

Chadwell-Ferrell Barnes (191 cm, New Orleans’05), or Chad Barnes for short, is playing for a different Czech Republic team this 2013-14. Barnes will be suiting up for BK Kolin (NBL) once again, after spending the 2012-13 season playing for BK Nova Hut Nostrava (Czech Republic-NBL). He was last with BK Kolin in the 2011-12 season,…

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EuroBasket 2013: Round 2 advancement papers given

Round 1 of EuroBasket 2013 is complete and the clubs moving on to Round 2 have been determined. Groups C and D were cut and dry with three top teams and no tiebreakers needed, but in Groups A and B the tiebreakers were complex as there were three teams tied for third place at 2-3,…

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EuroBasket 2013: OTs, Upsets, Italy stands alone

Coming into Day 4 of the EuroBasket 2013 competition, there were four undefeated teams. As the dust settled on Ljubljana, Jesenice, Celje, and Koper, Slovenia Sunday, the only club that made it out of Day 4 unblemished was Italy after their big 81:72 win over previously undefeated Greece. France knocked off unbeaten Ukraine 77:71 in…

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EuroBasket 2013: Day 3 complete, four unbeaten

With Day 3 of EuroBasket 2013, the playoff picture is starting to unfold with only four clubs now undefeated, four without wins and eight that sit with 1-2 records. As of the completion of Day 3, Ukraine, Italy, Greece, and host club Slovenia are the sole holders of 3-0 records with Greece dominating their opponents…

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EuroBasket 2013: Day 1, Groups C and D

EuroBasket 2013 is underway in Slovenia with 24 teams battling for six spots in the 2014 FIBA World Cup to be held in Spain. Round 1 consists of four groups of six teams that will play each other once with the top three teams from each group moving on to the second round. Group C…

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