Imagine being Austin Reaves.
You reject the offer to play for Germany.
You join Team USA.
You find Germany in the WC semifinals.
You are the best of your team (21 pts, 7/10 FG in 24').
You lose against them.
@AceticAcid4
Agree on the prestigious, obviously.
But no way Olympics gold is more difficult to win, with only 12 teams and six games to play. World Cup is way more difficult, even Eurobasket is.
Obviously Euroleague’s sanctions are limited to Euroleague.
But seeing Yabusele and Deck in the starting five three days after the brawl with Partizan… I don’t like it at all.
Among the stories of this night: 10 years ago PJ Tucker was in Montegranaro, avoiding the relegation in Serie A2 at the last second of the last game of the season.
Today is an NBA champion.
Ανακοίνωση ΚΑΕ Παναθηναϊκός AKTOR
Δυστυχώς, για ακόμη μια φορά, φτάνοντας στο πιο κρίσιμο σημείο της σεζόν στην Ευρωλίγκα και έχοντας κάνει ως Παναθηναϊκός μια μεγάλη προσπάθεια να επιστρέψουμε στα υψηλότερα σκαλοπάτια, γίναμε μάρτυρες μιας «καταδρομικής επιχείρησης» βγαλμένης
Obradovic, Danilovic, Paspalj, Divac 🇷🇸
Radja 🇭🇷
Zdovc 🇸🇮
All united for Duda.
I can only imagine what this pic means for so many people.
(📸:
@Eurohoopsnet
)
@jakeymilmil
True. But this doesn’t change a thing. You win the world championship, you are world champion. You win Olympics, you are Olympic champion.
Israel in last five Eurobasket Under 20:
2017: 🥈
2018: 🥇
2019: 🥇
2022: 4th
2023: 🥈
Avdija, Blatt, Zoosman, Madar, Yaacov, Wolf… Pay attention to them in a couple of years.
South Sudan Olympics Committee was born in 2015, they went to Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2021 with a total number of 5 athletes (all in track & field).
Qualifying for Paris with the men's basketball team is something bigger than sports for them.
What a story to tell 🇸🇸
Non-USA players at the NBA All Star Game in the 2000s:
2000: 1
2001: 2
2002: 4
2003: 5
2004: 5
2005: 5
2006: 5
2007: 3
2008: 3
2009: 4
2010: 4
2011: 4
2012: 6
2013: 3
2014: 3
2015: 4
2016: 2
2017: 2
2018: 5
2019: 7
2020: 8
World is getting ready for the battle vs. USA.
They aren’t the funniest team to watch, but if you want to win with Crvena Zvezda you have to sweat like hell, even if your name is Barcelona. Nothing but respect for Radonjic’s work.
Stats you are not ready for: Calathes (1.017) has more defensive rebounds in Euroleague than Hines (991) with 71 games played less than him (326 vs 397)
My World Cup Awards:
1st team
Zagars
Schroeder (MVP)
SGA
Bogdanovic
Milutinov
2nd team
Jones
Obst
F. Wagner
Grazulis
Smits
Best coach: Banchi
Best U21: Giddey
Most surprising: Zagars
Best defender: Avramovic
Best naturalized: Hawkinson
Eurobasket 2013: quarter finals
Eurobasket 2015: quarter finals
Eurobasket 2017: quarter finals
World Cup 2019: eight finals
Olympics 2021: quarter finals
Eurobasket 2022: quarter finals
World Cup 2023: quarter finals
One day we'll break again that wall. But not today.
I don't want to believe that these guys really thought an already eliminated Zvezda would have battle against a team that was playing his game of the year.
FIBA suspended DJ Cooper, who was found cheating on drug test. He used his (female) friend's urine who was pregnant.
His test was clean but said he was pregnant.
Alright.
Ameriški košarkar DJ Cooper, ki je resno razmišljal o tem, da bi zaigral za bosansko reprezentanco, je poskušal prelisičiti dopinško kontrolo, a se mu je poskus ponesrečil.
Consider this from another perspective.
There are 11 Euroleague players playing the Gold medal game.
There are 0 Euroleague players playing the Bronze medal game.
The Three Tenors Night 😍😍😍
Giannis Antetokounmpo
40 min
40 pts
12/18 2pts
2/7 3pts
10/14 FT
8 reb
5 ast
Nikola Jokic
30 min
29 pts
9/13 2pts
2/3 3pts
5/10 FT
6 reb
1 ast
Luka Doncic
30 min
25 pts
6/10 2pts
3/8 3pts
4/8 FT
11 reb
8 ast
WE ARE ALL WITNESSES.
Mike James scored only 2 pts in the 4th quarters of the three game of the series vs Fenerbahce.
Clearly Monaco didn’t have a single chance this way.
(The other guy in the pic has a quite important role in that stat)
It’s not Elon Musk vs Mark Zuckerberg at Colosseum.
It’s Italy-Romania, 1st game of volleyball European championship, at Arena di Verona.
Simply amazing.
I think everyone expected exemplary punishments for the worst show in modern Euroleague history, but this a mountain that gave birth to a mouse.
(No sanctions for Llull? Are you serious??? And Yabusele will be back before Exum...)
In 2003 a rookie that is going to be the leading scorer of Italian Serie A2 with Fabriano.
In 2023 the NBA title as Director of Scouting for the Denver Nuggets.
I don’t think many people have at least one title in NCAA, Euroleague and NBA (and much more…) like Drew Nicholas.
@ThiasLsf
Do you mean the same Alba that lost by 45 vs Fenerbahce two weeks ago or by 45 vs Maccabi one month ago?
If Partizan has someone to blame for not making it to the play-in is only itself. Putting your destiny in someone else's hands is rarely a good idea...
Euroleague teams by NBA games played by their players:
Panathinaikos 1026
Khimki 1019
Fenerbahce 972
Milano 833
Cska 795
Real 734
Bayern 708
Barca 695
Maccabi 664
Efes 535
Zvezda 318
Olympiacos 297
Zenit 135
Asvel 107
Baskonia 50
Alba 50
Valencia 34
Zalgiris 9
Hands up for Tomas Satoransky's World Cup.
14,8 pts
44,0% 2pts
44,4% 3pts
87,5% FT (10th)
6,5 reb (2nd among guards)
8,3 ast (2nd)
21,5 eff (4th)
Give him an NBA starting five!
My 2 cents: when Campazzo signed for Zvezda, the club was already under Euroleague's ban. It's not something that happened after the signing and nobody put a gun on his head to sign the contract. He took the risk, he pays the consequences.
Datome è il miglior tiratore da 3 della storia dell'
#Euroleague
tra coloro che hanno giocato 100+ partite (167/377, 44,3%) e uno degli unici 8 giocatori della storia con il 90%+ ai tiri liberi (184/203, 90,6%).
4/5/2016: Virtus Bologna is relegated in Serie A2.
11/5/2022: Virtus Bologna is qualified for Euroleague.
One guy was there in Serie A2 and is there today...
Arturs Zagars seemed the new Navarro when leaded Latvia to an amazing silver medal at Eurobasket U18 in 2018. Then he had some injuries and many troubles to adapt to the highest level.
Today he was a beast vs France:
22 pts
5/6 2pts
3/5 3pts
3/9 FT🤨
4 ast
2 stl
18 eff
Best part of
#TheLastDance
?
Barack Obama, your average former Chicago resident😂
(Obvioysly there is a looooot more. Go and find a Netflix account if you don't have one: it's even better than we dreamed)