According to Sportando, FIBA’s front-office will host the CEO of Euroleague, Jordi Bertomeu, in FIBA Europe’s headquarters in Munich on Tuesday. David Pick added on a new tweet that both parties want to find a solution in a peaceful way.
Source: FIBA to host Jordi Bertomeu, Euroleague associates at Munich headquarters on Tuesday.
— David Pick (@IAmDPick) 29 avril 2016
In order to make us wait before the Final Four which will take place in Berlin on May 13 to 15, Euroleague released the best plays’ movie of the 2016 playoffs.
According to USA Today, the Italian coach, Ettore Messina is a front-runner to get the job of Los Angeles Lakers’ head-coach. The former coach of CSKA Moscow is currently one of the assistant coaches of Gregg Popovich in San Antonio.
Lakers have already got the agreement of the Texan team to talk with coach Pop’s assistant. Messina already has been in Los Angeles during the 2011-2012 season when he was one of Mike Brown’s assistant coaches.
Ettore Messina est l’un des entraîneurs européens les plus titrés. Il a été nommé deux fois meilleur entraîneur de l’Euroleague et a remporté à quatre reprises cette compétition avec le Virtus Bologne (1998 et 2001) et le CSKA Moscou (2006 et 2008). Il est seulement devancé par le Serbe Željko Obradović qui a, lui, décroché huit fois l’Euroleague.
Selon USA Today l’actuel assistant de Gregg Popovich à San Antonio, serait une piste sérieuse pour devenir le nouveau coach principal de la franchise californienne qui vient de remercier son coach Byron Scott.
Les dirigeants des Lakers ont d’ailleurs été autorisés à commencer les discussions avec l’ancien entraîneur du Real Madrid. En obtenant ce poste, le tacticien italien ne se dirigerait pas vers l’inconnu puisqu’il a déjà passé une saison sur le banc des Lakers en tant qu’assistant de Mike Brown, c’était lors de l’édition 2011-2012.
According to El Mundo Deportivo, FIBA suspended Spain from the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, which will take place in August and from the next World Championships. The reason of this suspension would be the support that Liga ACB gives to the Euroleague, which is a concurrent of the new Champion’s League that FIBA will organize next year.
According to Sportando, Sasha Djordjevic is no longer the head-coach of Panathinaikos.
Panathinaikos fire Sasha Djordjevic https://t.co/zgcfdHaSDU
— Sportando (@Sportando) 19 avril 2016
Satoransky on the break for the huge dunk !
.@satoransky on the break and all @FCBbasket fans know what it comes next!!! A HUGE DUNK! #FCBLOKhttps://t.co/OAAYZekNLp
— Euroleague TV (@EuroleagueTV) 19 avril 2016
We already knew that Turkish were huge fans of basketball and it has been confirmed today. 60 000 asked for a ticket to see the Eurocup’s Final but the 12 000 tickets available in the Abdi İpekçi Arena were sold in only 5 minutes.
According to David Pick, ALBA Berlin could have some interest in Ainars Bagatskis for next season. He is the current head-coach of the Latvian National Team and of Nizhny Novgorod.
ALBA Berlin, source said, have shown significant interest in coach Ainars Bagatskis.
— David Pick (@IAmDPick) 18 avril 2016
Strasbourg (France) won against Nizhny Novgorod (Russia) yesterday in the quarter finals of the Eurocup (85-94).
A trip of about 1550 milles, the absence of a key player, the center Matt Howard, injured, and a game against a team qualified for the Euroleague Top 16 last season. Strasbourg’s challenge was complicated yesterday, for the quarter finals of the Eurocup against Nizhny Novgorod, which plays in russian first division.
But the Frenchmen took the lead at the end of the first quarter (25-28), and kept their (short) advantage at the half (48-50). Then, they widened the gap at the end of the third quarter (67-75), and even obtained a +18 advantage during the last quarter (70-88).
Unforunately for them, they conceded a 13-0 in three minutes, which let the Russians to reduce the gap to only five points. Strasbourg finally won 85-94. As a consequence, the french coach Vincent Collet and his players have an advantage of nine points in order to qualify for the semi-finals.
A future historic achievement for french basket ?
Three men played a significant role in this success : Mardy Collins scored 24 points, Romain Duport 18 points and Jérémy Leloup 16 points. Thanks to his 3-point performance (4/4), the small forward increased the great 3-point percentage of this team (71%). Rodrigue Beaubois (11 points) and Louis Cambell (10 points) also scored in double figures.
The team hasn’t qualified for the semi-finals of an european cup in her history. In addition, no french team has taken part in the semi-finals of the second european cup since Chalon-sur-Saône in 2001.
If they qualify in their arena next Wednesday, they will face Trento or Milano on 29 March and 6 April, and try to write a new chapter in french basket’s history.