Sources: Milicic, Pekovic sign with Timberwolves for $33 million combined

Pekovic finally a Timberwolf Incredible, unbelievable and who’d a thunk it just nine months ago? Sources are reporting to ESPN this afternoon EST that the Minnesota Timberwolves are on the verge of .....

Devotion down 3.5 percent: Final 2009-10 Euroleague attendance figures

During the 2009-10 Euroleague season, one of the most watched statistics was totally off-court; with financial stress pervasive throughout The Continent, most European basketball franchises prepared f...

Prokhorov, Thorn, Johnson to meet with Lebron, D-Wade, Bosh

Just a quick note, surely the first of many in the loooooooooooong NBA free-agency season to come. Reportedly, the New Jersey Nets are sending something of a dream team to meet with LeBron James in Oh...

Kobe Bryant: “I would love to play in Italy”

It’s a dream dreamt by every follower of Italian basketball, not to mention all of us refugees of Los Angeles Lakers fandom in Europe: the fantasy that longtime Northern Italy resident Kobe Bryant m.....

On 2010 NBA Draft night, four Europeans hear names called

See you in Atlanta -- i mean, Oklahoma City -- Tibor! While there may be a dearth of European rookies actually cracking NBA squads in 2009-10, at least the rights to a quartet of promising Continental...

Asseco Prokom’s Seczkowski named Euroleague Exec of 2009-10

Congratulations from BallinEurope to Asseco Prokom Gdynia and its CEO Przemyslaw Seczkowski, who deservedly took the 2010 Euroleague Club Executive of the Year after what the EL is justifiably calling...

“Colorful, attractive, spectacular” Rubio still kinda likes Minnesota; won’t play there until 2011-1...

The Associated Press released an interview with FC Barcelona/prospective Minnesota Timberwolves PG Ricky Rubio this morning in which the Human YouTube Clip proclaimed he won’t be entering the NBA un.....

Istanbul not Constantinople: Ratgeber wants to rock Fenerbahce

BallinEurope so rarely gets to write about basketball issues from home base Hungary, so it was quite cheering to see a little coverage of László Ratgeber, new coach of Fenerbahçe Istanbul’s Eurol...

Donatas Motiejunas pulls out of 2010 NBA Draft; BallinEurope waits for 2011

So much for that potential lottery pick: Lithuanian big man Donatas Motiejunas, perhaps after having seen his stock drop off a bit in the past couple of months, has announced he’ll pull his name fro.....