San Francisco is set to host the NBA All-Star Game in 2025. The announcement, made by the NBA on Monday November 6th, revealed that the Chase Center in San Francisco will be the venue for the game on Feb. 16, […]
Tag: Lithuania
The 33 times Team USA was challenged (or lost) in the Olympics, World Cup and international basketball play
It’s been nearly 30 years since The Dream Team mopped the floor with the competition in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Not only did they defeat the teams, but the starstruck opponents posed for group photos before and after the game, shook their […]
Watch Lithuania vs. Spain, France vs. Serbia in Eurobasket Finals
When it comes down to it, there’s something special about teams with a history of performing. Both Spain and Lithuania stumbled a few times during the 2015 Eurobasket, but when they both faced teams that were undefeated, the two historical […]
Watch Eurobasket Live: Serbia vs. Lithuania, Czech Republic vs. Latvia
Eurobasket 2015 is wrapping up. Friday features Latvia vs. Czech Republic in the important seventh/eighth place game for the final invite to next year’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament. Follow the 2015 Eurobasket games in our forum. That game will be the […]
Watch Eurobasket 2015: Italy vs. Israel, Lithuania vs. Georgia
Follow Eurobasket 2015 in our Forum The first batch of games during Eurobasket’s Round of 16 were completed on Saturday with the winners moving onto the quarterfinals. . It’ll be Greece vs. Spain (click to follow) which will prove to […]
Watch Eurobasket Online: Serbia vs. Spain, France and Croatia
The 1st day of Eurobasket 2015 starts with three games on the schedule including important games featuring Serbia vs. Spain, France, Italy, Croatia, and Slovenia. Follow along with all the Eurobasket games in our forum and find out where you can […]
Eurobasket 2015: Everything you need to know about the tournament
With the final warm up games coming to an end, Eurobasket 2015 is set to begin in less than a week. This is the 39th edition of the FIBA European championship. This year it’ll be played on September 5–20 2015 across […]
USA-Slovenia Boxscore, Recap: U.S. slaughters Slovenia by 43 points
After a close first half which saw the United States up just seven points at halftime, the USA exploded in the second half, ultimately beating Slovenia by 43 points — 119-76 — in what was supposed to be a much […]
Cleveland to Honor Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Retire His #11 Jersey
The Cleveland Cavaliers have announced that will retire Zydrunas Ilgauskas‘ #11 jersey this season. The jersey raising ceremony will occur on the March 8 game against the New York Knicks. Ilguaskas, a 7-3 Lithuanian center, spent 12 seasons with the […]
Tony Parker joins Gasol, Dragic, Kleiza on All-Tournament Team
No surprise that Tony Parker was named MVP of the Eurobasket tournament, he was the indispensable to France’s offense. He headlined a team that featured three other NBA players in Goran Dragic of Slovenia, Linas Kleiza of Lithuania, and Marc […]
Basketball: France wins European Title Over Lithuania 80-66
After coming so close in 2005 with a bronze, and a silver in 2011, France has finally won their first ever Eurobasket title, defeating Lithuania 80-66 in the championship game. (Discuss France-Lithuania Online). Down three points after one quarter, France blitzed Lithuania […]
Watch Lithuania, France collide in the Eurobasket Championship
After nearly three weeks of play, Eurobasket has been whittled down from 24 teams to just two national teams. France and Lithuania are the only teams standing and they’ll meet in the Eurobasket championship game on Sunday, September 22 (Watch […]
Eurobasket: Serbia vs. Italy, Slovenia vs. Ukraine
It’s all been settled. It’s France vs. Lithuania in the Eurobasket championship game on Sunday. Lithuania dominated Croatia in the third quarter and sailed to a decisive semifinal victory, 77-62. Jonas Maciulis led Lithuania with 23 points. Linas Kleiza had 22 […]
Final Four: Watch Spain vs. France, Lithuania vs. Croatia in Eurobasket Semis
It’s down to the final four teams in this year’s Eurobasket – Croatia, France, Lithuania and Spain will battle tomorrow to see who will play in the title game. The first game on the Friday night schedule will be a qualification […]
Watch: Lithuania vs. Italy, Croatia vs. Ukraine Online
Two of the four teams have been determined for the Eurobasket semifinals – with France and Spain going head to head – but who will join them? The quarterfinals continues with Lithuania taking on Italy, and Croatia against Ukraine, with the […]
Watch Serbia vs. France, Lithuania in Eurobasket 2013
The third day of round two of Eurobasket has three games scheduled for Stozice Arena. The first game features Latvia taking on Belgium, Urkraine vs. Lithuania in the second game and an important third game between Serbia and France. Follow […]
Eurobasket 2013: 24 Teams Compete to be Europe’s Basketball Champions
The 2013 FIBA European Championships of Basketball, formerly Eurobasket, started several days ago with 24 teams competing for bragging rights in Europe. The tournament began on September 4, and will finish with the title game on September 22, 2013. Spain […]
Is Donatas Motiejunas the NBA’s Next Great Lithuanian Big Man?
There have been several great basketball players to come out of the Baltic nation of Lithuania, but perhaps none became as successful or well known as center Arvydas Sabonis. Sabonis has long since retired, so naturally international basketball fans have […]
FIBA expresses concerns about Lithuanian Basketball
January 11, 2013 – FIBA Europe has expressed its deep concern about the recent developments in Lithuania, with the reported arrest and detention of Lithuanian Basketball Federation (LBF) Secretary General Mindaugas Balciunas on suspicion of embezzlement of public funds. In a letter […]
Video: Arvydas Sabonis plays in Legends Game
This just in, Arvydas Sabonis, even at 48 years old, still has mad skills. Sabonis recently participated in a Legends game with fellow Lithuanians against a Russian team and as you can see, the man can still play some hoops. […]