Another honor has been bestowed on Spain’s 19-year-old point guard, Ricky Rubio. (Discuss Spanish Basketball in our forum) The Euroleague has announced that the Barcelona playmaker is to receive this season’s Rising Star Trophy. Rubio, who joined the Catalan club last summer from DKV Joventut, started and played big minutes for Xavier Pascual’s Barcelona team [...]

FC Barcelona have given Real Madrid fits all season, no matter what the competition. On Thursday night, Ettore Messina and Madrid finally turned the tables and defeated their rivals 70-63 in the Euroleague to level their best-of-five Quarter-Final showdown at one game apiece. (Discuss Real Madrid and the Euroleague in our forum) The recent addition [...]

Three American players were named to the Euroleague’s all-decade team. (Discuss the Euroleague in our forum) Former Duke star Trajan Langdon, naturalized Russian player J.R. Holden, and current NBA player Anthony Parker made the list of the ten best Euroleague players  for the past decade. The choice was made through online fan voting (1.25 million [...]

(FIBA) – Euroleague superstars Ricky Rubio and Ramūnas Šiškauskas led their respective teams to victories Thursday night. (Discuss Euroleague basketball in our forum) Rubio turned in his best performance of the EuroLeague campaign for Barcelona on Thursday against Montepashi Siena while Ramunas Siskauskas showed why everyone in Lithuania wants him to come out of international [...]

Real Madrid center Darjus Lavrinovič beat out his better known brother Kšyštof Lavrinovič, to win the Euroleague’s regular season Week one MVP Darjus’ performance index rating of 49 ranks as the sixth-best total of the decade. (Talk about Euroleague regular season basketball) Darjus took home the honor despite Real Madrid losing to BC Khimki 84-81 in [...]

Speaking with the press, NBA’s commissioner David Stern believes it’s inevitable that NBA franchises land in Europe. “There’s some good possibility over the course of many years, that if there’s appropriate arena development in Europe, there could be actual NBA franchises in Europe.” Stern said. “That’s the way we see the development of basketball in [...]

The 2009 Euroleague American Tour and NBA Europe Live are set to begin pittingNBA teams and Euroleague clubs in preseason competition. Two Euroleague teams, Olympiacos Piraeus of Greece and Partizan Belgrade of Serbia, will go against four NBA opponents: the Denver Nuggets, the Phoenix Suns, the San Antonio Spurs and the Cleveland Cavaliers from October 03-12, [...]