Spain
Eurocup, six more reach Last 32
Thrills and spills aplenty in the Eurocup tonight as a busy evening of action brought fifteen games with it as the Regular Season Round 7 played out around the continent. As you would expect, the games were suitably exhilarating as the Eurocup went up another gear as clubs from around Europe jostled for position throughout…
Read MoreIsaac Fotu loaned to Manresa
Isaac Fotu (203 cm, Hawaii’15) has been loaned by CAI Zaragoza (Spain-Liga Endesa) to La Bruixa d’Or Manresa (Spain-Liga Endesa) for the remainder of the season. Fotu has dual citizenship from Tonga and New Zealand and has been a member of the New Zealand national team in 2011-12 and again this 2014. He played for New…
Read MoreJamar Samuels no longer with Manresa
Jamar Samuels (200 cm, Kansas State’12) has parted ways with Spanish club La Buixa d’Or Manresa (Spain-Liga Endesa). The 25-year-old Samuels played eight games in the domestic Spanish league for Manresa before his departure and he averaged 5.5 ppg and 5.9 rpg. In 2013-14 Jamar played for Prima Veroli (Italy-DNA Gold) and there he logged…
Read MoreSpanish Liga Endesa: Top 4 Teams Claim Road Wins
While it was business as usual as far as wins and losses were concerned in Round 8 of the regular season in the Spanish Liga Endesa, there was no shortage of exciting games to thrill fans in attendance. Cutting to the chase, most teams won at home with the exception of the league’s top four…
Read MoreBen Woodside inks with Sevilla
Ben Woodside (180 cm, North Dakota State’09) is taking his talents to Baloncesto Sevilla (Spain-Liga Endesa) this 2014-15 season. Woodside is an American player who also holds a Georgian passport. He started the season for Aykon TED Kolejliler Ankara (Turkey-TBL), but left shortly. In 2013-14 Ben was on the roster of Vanoli Cremona from Italy’s…
Read MoreReal Madrid and Galatasaray win in Euroleague
Real Madrid survived a road test by a dogged Zalgiris Kaunas as the Spanish team got back on track in the 2014/2015 Euroleague season. Los Blancos were not the only team tasting victory on Friday as Round 6 wrapped with three other games on the night. In the rest of the action, Nizhny Novgorod kept…
Read MoreEuroleague: CSKA, Barca, and Olympiacos in Top 16
The busiest Thursday of the Euroleague season so far tipped off this evening with eight games getting Round 6 underway. We are past the halfway stage of the Regular Season now and are starting to see the teams that look most likely to progress to the last 16. However, there is all to play for…
Read MoreEurocup Round 6 of Regular Season
We are deep into the competition now as the Eurocup Round 6 brought another week of action to the continents second biggest club competition. There were plenty of thrills through the two days, and the odd spill too as only two teams now remain unbeaten, one of them booking passage to the Last 32, the…
Read MoreMatthew Pebole decides on Santander
Matthew Pebole (198 cm, Hobart’13) has signed on the dotted line for Club Deportivo Estela Santander in the Spanish EBA. It is the Americans second season in professional Basketball after he played for Casey Cavaliers through his rookie campaign during 2013/2014. During his stint with the Cavs the swingman managed to put together impressive averages…
Read MoreMirza Begic inks with Laboral Kutxa
As Laboral Kutxa Vitoria (Spain-Liga Endesa) deals with the loss of big man Lamont Hamilton, who is out for a month with an injury, the club has added Mirza Begic (216 cm). Begic is a veteran center who has dual citizenship from Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. He began the 2014-15 season playing for Union…
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