After couple of months of preparations, it seems that Balkan basketball league is ready to be established. The representatives of Basketball federations of Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Macedonia and Serbia will meet in Sofia this weekend in order to make a decisions about the rules and regulations as well as to agree terms about competition schedule. Read more...

Zalgiris-Lietuvos Rytas 87:80 Zalgiris won its first Final home game and tied the series against Lietuvos Rytas at 1-1. The winner of Baltic league overcame its rivals 87:80 with a perfect start in the early beginning. DeJuan Collins (188-G-76, college: Tuskegee) led the winners with 18 points. Damir Markota (209-C/F-85) collected 15 points and 7 rebounds, while Brown netted 15 and Jonas Maciulis (200-G/F-85, agency: Interperformances) had 11. Read more...

Khimky-Ural Great 99:90 Another victory from Khimky in the semifinal game against Ural Great lifted them to 2-0 in the series. Trailing after the first half the second team of the regular season spurt in the third quarter to win 99:90. Maciej Lampe (210-C-85, agency: Edge Sports) led the winners with 29 points. Daniel Ewing (191-G-83, college: Duke) nailed 21, while Kelly McCarty (201-F-75, agency: Avi Zilberman, college: S.Mississippi) posted 18 in the winning effort. Read more...

Two more Quarterfinal games had been played in Turkish Play-offs. Banvit did not allow Besiktas Cola Turka to advance to the semis, cutting the series to 2-1 for the latter. Banvit trailed 88:89, but won the game Besiktas Cola Turka 90:89. The game was tough from the beginning until the end and proved the class of both teams in this stage. Four quarters were not enough for the teams and only 10-9 in the extra time remained Banvit alive. Read more...

Round 24 MVP: Omar Sneed (203-F/C-76, college: Memphis) First team Omar Sneed, Omar was great, he lead Rishon to important win when he scored 31 points, grabed 9 rebounds, and 2 steals Brian Tolbert (188-G-74, agency: Ronsport, college: E.Michigan), Brian scored 28 points in just 30 minutes, and 9-of-11 from the 2 points Michael Kubler. Read more...

PGE Turow Zgorzelec became the first finalist of the Polish Play-offs. In Game 5 the team overcame ASCO Slssk Wroclaw 83:70 mostly due to the last quarter. The latter opened the campaign with 18:16 win after the first quarter. Both teams remained close to each other after the first half when the board showed 33:32 for the hosts. A 22:16 in the third and 28:22 in the last sent Turow to the Final of Poland. David Logan (184-G-82, college: Indianapolis) paced all the winners with 26 points. Read more...

RSV Eintracht Stahnsdorf is planning the next season in the 2. Bundesliga Pro B. Today the club announced that Steve Krajewski (205-C-81) is the first player who decided to extend his contract with RSV for the 2008-2009 campaign. The 27-year-old Center appeared in all 30 league-games of this past season and averaged 12.9 points, 6.4 rebounds per game. Meanwhile, the team's most effective player of the 2007-2008 season is not going to return to Stahnsdorf after the summer break. Read more...

TBB Trier and Head Coach Yves Defraigne have agreed to a new two-year contract extension, it was announced by the club today. The new deal also includes an option for another year. Defraigne took over the head coaching position in December 07. His assistant Frank De Meulemeester is going to stay in Trier as well. He inked a new contract for one season. Read more...

Union Olimpija led as many as 40 points at half and crushed TCG Mercator by 106-48. Sasa Doncic (201-G-74, agency: VTBM/SRBM) lead seven scorers in double figures with 15 points. Mirza Begic posted 14, Goran Dragic and Miha Zupan 12 apiece and Chris Booker, Hasan Rizvic and Maurice Bailey while Jure Erzen had 15 points for Mercator and Ljek Nicaj posted 13. . . Read more...

Aris friesland have added two new players to the selection for 2008-2009 season: Bob van den Enden (192-G/F-89) and Patrick Frimpong (202-C-87). Both players came over from Eiffel Towers Den Bosch within the framework of cooperation between Aris Friesland en Eiffel Towers Den Bosch. Bob van den Enden is a forward and is known as one of the biggest talents of the Netherlands. Patrick Frimpong, 20 years old, is attracted to reinforce the inside at Aris Friesland. Read more...

Djoenie Steenvoorde (195-G/F-81, agency: R.H.Consultancy) will play as of the coming season for the Dutch Champion of 2007 EiffelTowers Den Bosch. This season he averaged 14 points for Rotterdam. Steenvoorde made his debut in the eredivisie at Omniworld Almere on the age of 18. After 7 seasons to have played in Almere, Steenvoorde signed in 2006 a contract with the Rotterdam Challengers. Read more...

MABETX SUPER LEAGUE Second final match PEJA SIGAL PRISHTINA 1:2 , Sunday at 19,00 TOYOTA WOMEN LEAGUE Second final match BASHKIMI SIGAL PRISHTINA 1:0, Saturday at 13,00 Referees: Hajredin Zeka, Agim Halili Monitors: Tafil Hoxha STOBI FLIPS PIONEERS LEAGUE Third semi final match SHB 12 MEGABASKET 1:1 ,Sunday at 12,00 Referees: Agim Halili, Labninot Belegu Monitors: Read more...

Game 3 between OZAA and Vitalyur is scheduled for May 10, but after the first two it might be the last game the spectatoiors will see. A thrilling development discussed closer to the male basketball play-off championship was no longer special in an inappropriate time. Hardly had the final series started on, the Vitalur team was but a few steps from the fourth championship. OZAA was a horrible but bearable opponent during the weekend match. Read more...

Pawel Mroz (216-C-84) together with Slask in Poland could not advance to the Finals, even being the top-scorer in the semifinal. PGE Turow Zgorzelec became the first finalist of the Polish Play-offs. In Game 5 the team overcame ASCO Slssk Wroclaw 83:70 mostly due to the last quarter. The latter opened the campaign with 18:16 win after the first quarter. Both teams remained close to each other after the first half when the board showed 33:32 for the hosts. Read more...

The first game in Szekesfehervar the home team lost against ASE 86-77 and the security guards had to help the referees to get out from the gym . The 4th place team Albacomp lost even the second game in Paks and got a punishment of 730.000 HUF from the Hungarian Basketball Federation. But Albacomp did not give up and won the second home game by 18 points and the surprising victory in Paks they could tie the series. Read more...

The winner of the regular season and the third team of the league will face each other in the Final of Romanian Play-offs. Both teams advanced to it after the third victories last night. CSU Ploiesti beat Rapid Bucuresti 84:87 away from home to win the series 3-1 in the semifinals. CSU Ploiesti had difficulties throughout the whole game but will play in the Final of the Play-offs. Read more...

Kalev - Pirita 70:65 Kalev Tallinn narrowly defeated Pirita in the third game of the semifinal clash and advanced to the Final. Yesterday TU/Rock booked their spot in the championship series and the archrivals would meet once again in the best-of-seven series tipping off on May 13. Pirita entered the game being on the ropes trailing 0-2. They needed to come up with a huge sensation to stay alive in the series and looked like capable of doing the one as they got to a dramatic start. Read more...

Geofin overcame USK Praha in the capital to complete a 3-1 series win. Geofin looked confident and easily ran away to a 13-point lead at halftime. USK Praha had little chances to save the game in the second half as Geofin controlled the pace and kept the hosts at bay. Joe Chapman (193-G-84, agency: AMI, college: Marquette) scored 29 points to lead all scorers. Ondrej Soska (208-C-78) provided 16 points and 8 boards for the winners. Daniel Dvorak (204-F-77) nailed 19 points for USK Praha. Read more...

A former Benetton Player Maurice Evans took to the court last night with his Orlando Magic team mates in an effort not to go down 3-0 against the Detroit Pistons. Led with his tenancious defense and athletic abilities in a must win situation Orlando prevailed with a 111-86 victory and now the series is 2-1 in favor of Detroit. Game four is slated for Saturday afternoon again in Orlando. Read more...

Soulis Markopoulos's Marousi is the fourth team to join Panathinaikos, Olympiakos and Panionios in the Semi finals after the second amazing road win in Amexandreion Melathron over Arisn Thessalonikis. Markopoulos team was more decisive than ever and with players full of passion and an amazing Branko Milisavljevic (193-G-76) for a third game in the row (he scored 85 points in three games against Aris and he is definitely the MVP of the quarter finals) managed to eliminate Coach Herberts team. Read more...