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Jacob Doerksen signs pro basketball deal

Jacob Doerksen, considered to be the greatest basketball player to ever play for the Trinity Western University Spartans, signed his first pro contract with Germany's United Basketball Club (UBC) Tige...

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Has Dirk Nowitzki retired from Team Germany?

After an incredible 13th year with Team Germany came to an end with its defeat at the hands of Lithuania yesterday, Dirk Nowitzki may be contemplating retirement?

Lebron touts wicked dunk from Germany

Tweeted King James: “Yo everybody check out this from my homie @marcus32johnson. WOW!! Ridiculous Man” Indeed, below the break you may witness a dunk teeming with ridiculousness from the former Uni...

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Jermaine Bucknor Feeling The Pressure in Germany

Canadian National Team Member Jermaine Bucknor discusses his current situation Deutsche Bank Skyliners including to pressure to perform under a short contract.

BallinEurope’s 2010 FIBA World Championship power rankings 4.0

BiE was waiting for a result from last night’s Brazil-Argentina game in Spain before preparing this week’s edition of the official BallinEurope 2010 FIBA World Championship Power Rankings. Now that th...

BallinEurope’s 2010 FIBA World Championship power rankings 3.1

While nearly everybody (perhaps too many, in BiE’s opinion) await the final shape of Team USA’s roster going into the 2010 FIBA World Championship, a bunch of other teams spent the weekend making stat...

Sunday roundup: Serbia, Germany, Greece, Tall Blacks win

Krstic krushed for Serbia A few exhibition games between national teams were played this weekend as the Istanbul Cup and the Love Cyprus Basketball Tournament wrapped with some interesting clashes, in...

Love Cyprus Tournament: Greece tramples Russia, Croatia survives Germany

Bourousis: Be afraid. Be very, very afraid. From the four-team Love Cyprus Basketball Tournament, Team Greece has sent a loud and clear message to the international hoops world: Fear us. Team Hellas u...

Power rankings (already updated): 2010 FIBA World Championship

See, BiE secretly knew this would happen … you break down, make a few fearless predictions online and bam! The inconvenient fact of a loss – two losses in fact, one particularly egregious – ...

Power ratings: 2010 FIBA World Championship

August is here and it’s full speed ahead for the 2010 FIBA World Championship in Turkey later this month. In coming weeks, we’ll be seeing the national teams competing in the tournament playing wa...

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Look out, Bundesliga (basketball): Here comes Bayern Munchen!

Rarely is the introduction of a new second-division basketball team greeted with such fanfare; of course, it’s not every day that a world-renowned football brand like FC Bayern joins the hoops world.....

The 35 Greatest Basketball YouTubes of All-Time: Nos. 11-15

It’s a bit of a dunkathon today at BallinEurope as we enter the top 15 of BiE’s official 35 Greatest Basketball YouTubes of All-Time, which were determined by these guidelines. (Usage of “guidel...