Category: Basketball

NBA Players Reps likely to approve Dec 22 season start

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from ESPN.com: Adrian WojnarowskiZach Lowe The NBA’s board of governors and players’ association will hold separate meetings on Thursday expected to culminate with an agreement on starting the 2020-21 season on Dec. 22 and playing a reduced 72-game schedule, sources told ESPN. The National Basketball Players Association is planning to take a formal vote of the team player representatives late Thursday, and sources told ESPN that everything is progressing toward an agreement on a pre-Christmas start to the season. The NBPA is holding team conference calls this week, including several…

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Turkish EuroLeague : CSKA defeats Valencia to end two-game losing streak

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A strong fourth period leads CSKA Moscow back to the win column info@eurohoops.net Focusing on its inside game in crunch time, CSKA Moscow defeated Valencia, 84-75, Thursday evening at home. The team coached by Dimitris Itoudis controlled the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Regular Season Round 6 contest building on Mike James pouring 15 points in the second quarter. His 17 points powered by 7/12 field goals including 5/5 twos earned him the game-high 17 points.blob:https://sneakershoptalk.com/0762261b-83ce-4685-9d9a-dca19a452ee2 “I think we played hard in the first half, but we knew we had to take a step ahead,…

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Basketball Champions League: Darussafaka reports a positive COVID-19 test

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From eurohoops.net: Darussafaka announced that one player tested positive for the coronavirus nfo@eurohoops.net Darussafaka Tekfen announced that one of its players tested positive for coronavirus and has been isolated immediately. Darussafaka played against Filou Oostende in the Basketball Champions League yesterday (October 28) while their next match is scheduled for October 31, against Bursaspor in the Turkish League.blob:https://sneakershoptalk.com/a2211812-5da3-4368-8a73-28038326b872 Per Darussafaka Tekfen: A positive result was found as a result of the Covid-19 PCR test performed on one of our players after our routine screenings were considered necessary. Our player, who…

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Houston Rockets to hire Stephen Silas as head coach

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from nba.com: The Houston Rockets are finalizing a deal with Stephen Silas to become the team’s next head coach, according to reports from Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN and Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle. Silas previously was an assistant coach under Rick Carlisle with the Dallas Mavericks for the past two seasons. Prior to joining Dallas, the 47-year-old coach had spent his previous nine seasons as an assistant coach with the Charlotte Hornets. His 20-year NBA coaching career also includes stops with the Golden State Warriors, Cleveland Cavaliers and Washington…

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Utah Jazz to be sold to tech entrepreneur Ryan Smith

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from the AP: SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The majority interest of the Utah Jazz is being sold to technology entrepreneur Ryan Smith, a move that when formally approved by the NBA will end the Miller family’s 35-year run as owners of the franchise. The Jazz said Wednesday that “definitive agreements” have been struck with Smith on the sale of the team, Vivint Arena, the team’s G League affiliate and management of a Triple-A baseball club. Part of those agreements call for the team to remain in Utah. Smith is a co-founder…

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Basketball Champions League: Marco Spissu making his hometown proud

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Marco Spissu was born in Sassari, raised in Dinamo’s youth teams, and is now leading his hometown team to new heights in the Basketball Champions League By Stefan Djordjevic / info@eurohoops.net These days, it’s not so often that the teams at the biggest stages feature a hometown player, let alone for him to be the face of the club and lead it to victories.  Well, that’s exactly become the case with Marco Spissu and Dinamo Sassari. However, far from it that it happened overnight and it took years of Spissu gaining…

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EuroHoops awards

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Crvena Zvezda and CSKA Moscow put on an amazing game and Jordan Loyd took matters into his own hands to secure the win for his squad By Stefan Djordjevic of eurohoops.net / info@eurohoops.net While three games have been postponed to a later date due to the coronavirus troubles in the squads, 12 teams still stepped on the court in Round 5 of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague and they’ve put on a show. Four players put on career-highs, some of them broke personal or club records, and there was plenty of quality…

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Barcelona holds off Real Madrid comeback

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From FC Barcelona holds on sending nemesis Real Madrid to a 1-4 start By Eurohoops Team/ info@eurohoops.net FC Barcelona dominated the first half of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Regular Season Round 5 Clasico and went on for the win, 79-72, versus Real Madrid Friday at the Palau Blaugrana. With Nikola Mirotic sidelined and Victor Claver also out, Kyle Kuric punched in a team-high 15 points, including ten in the key second quarter. Brandon Davies summed up 14 points and Cory Higgins 13 combining for eight in the challenging fourth period and completing the three-man double-digit…

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Turkish EuroLeague: Dorsey’s eight threes helps Maccabi get by Khimki Moscow

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From Stefan Djordjevic of eurohoops.net: The game between Khimki Moscow and Maccabi Tel Aviv went down to a close finish but the latter came out with an 89-87 road win in EuroLeague Round 5. It was the 6-0 run at the three-minute mark that gave Khimki some space with 75-70 on the scoreboard and despite back-to-back threes by Angelo Caloiaro, Alexey Shved answered with two of his own that kept the Russian ahead. However, Maccabi didn’t let up until the very last second and Tyler Dorsey crowned that effort with his eighth triple of the game…

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Amar’e Stoudamire joins Steve Nash’s staff in Brooklyn

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from nba.com: One of the NBA’s most famous pick-and-roll combinations is reuniting as coaches in Brooklyn. Per Shams Charania of The Athletic, former NBA All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire will serve as an assistant coach on the Nets under their new coach, Steve Nash. Stoudemire and Nash were teammates on the Suns from 2004-10 as one of the league’s most feared guard-big man combinations in the early 2000s. Nash was hired to coach the Nets earlier this month in what will be his first head coaching job in the NBA. He spent the previous five…

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