Euro-League Basketball CSKA 2016

Most Home Teams Dominate Round-11 of Euro-League Basketball CSKA Continue to Lead

 December 13, 2016   R K Gupta

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Six out of eight teams recorded victories on their home venues in Turkish Airlines Euro-League Basketball Round-11 matches last week. Those who recorded road wins were CSKA Moscow, the table-toppers and lowly-placed Brose Bamberg. Another feature of Round-11 games was wide margins of victories with just two games being decided within 5-point margins. CSKA Moscow […]

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Euro-League Regular Season

After 10 Rounds of Euro-League Regular Season Every Team Still in Competition Zone

 December 8, 2016   R K Gupta

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Though CSKA Moscow continue their leadership status in Turkish Airlines Euro-League Basketball’s Regular Season, it is not the end of the road for other 15 teams.  CSKA, however, came close to tasting their second defeat this season but Vitaly Fridzon’s buzzer-ending baseline jumper saw them narrowly through on road. Last year’s runner-up Fenerbahce also notched-up […]

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Euro-League Basketball: Felipe Reyes Scores His 2500th Point as Real Madrid Record 3rd Win

 November 27, 2016   R K Gupta

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One of the talking points in this week’s Round-9 games was Real Madrid captain Felipe Reyes crossing the 2500-point barrier in his 18-year old basketball career. Reyes achieved this feat in style as the lead-scorer in his team’s 89-75 win against Unics Kazan at Madrid. This was Real Madrid’s third consecutive win in the Turkish […]

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After 8 Rounds Reigning Champions CSKA Moscow Lead in New Euro-League Basketball Season

 November 24, 2016   R K Gupta

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The 2016–17 Turkish Airlines Euro-League Basketball season is already 8-rounds old. The 17th season of modern era of Euro-League basketball comes with a new format and unlike previous years, it has only 16 teams in Regular Season. Each team will play 30 rounds in home-and-away basis until April 7, 2017 and the best 8 will […]

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2016 Rio Olympic Basketball Qualification

France Serbia and Croatia Complete Men’s Basketball Line-up for 2016 Rio Olympic Games

 July 12, 2016   R K Gupta

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On a day, when France lost the 2016 European football championship game to Portugal, they still had some good news from the basketball performance from their men’s national team. In the final at Manila on July, France defeated Canada 83-74 and confirmed their passage to Brazil. A day earlier, Serbia had also sealed their Rio […]

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Rio Olympic Basketball

Last-Ditch Effort by 18 Men’s National Basketball Teams to Clinch 3 Remaining Spots for Rio

 July 7, 2016   R K Gupta

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While all 12 women’s teams for Rio Olympic Basketball Games have already qualified for the quadrennial Games, beginning in less than a month’s time, three quota places are still left for the men’s national basketball teams. Olympic Qualification Tournaments began on Monday July 4 simultaneously at three venues of Belgrade in Serbia, Manila in the […]

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CSKA Moscow

CSKA Moscow Win the Title Game of 2016 Turkish Airlines Euro-League Basketball in Berlin

 May 19, 2016   R K Gupta

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Curtain came down on the long 2016 Turkish Airlines Euro-league season with CSKA Moscow winning their seventh continental crown by defeating Fenerbahce Istanbul 101-96. The match turned out to be an overtime classic of a final played out in Berlin’s Mercedes Benz Arena on Sunday May 15, 2016. While the Russian Club could be regarded […]

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Fenerbahce Istanbul to Play CSKA Moscow in 2016 Euro-League Final in Berlin on May 15

 May 15, 2016   R K Gupta

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The semifinal games on Friday night saw 2016 Turkish Airlines Euro-league’s two best teams reach the finals. Fenerbahce Istanbul and CSKA Moscow fully justified their performances in the last seven months, beginning with regular season in October 2015. Playing at Berlin’s Mercedes-Benz Arena on May 13, the two teams won their matches in contrasting styles […]

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Lokomotiv Enter First Final Four to Make Turkish Airlines Euro-League Basketball History

 April 29, 2016   R K Gupta

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Of the four playoff-game series in this year’s Euro-league Basketball, three ended with a 3-0 sweep while it took all 5 games, before the fourth contender could be known. Inscribing their name in Turkish Airlines Euro-league basketball history, Russia’s Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar leapfrogged into the Final Four to be held at Berlin in a little […]

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Euro-League playoff classic

Loko’s Randolph Forces Game 5 Despite Hard Battle By Barcelona for Berlin at Blaugrana

 April 26, 2016   R K Gupta

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In a Euro-League playoff classic at Palau Blaugrana, Anthony Randolph of Lokomotiv came in Barcelona’s way by scoring 10 points in overtime that gave Lokomotiv a 92-80 win over the home side. Randolph thus denied Barcelona not only the home advantage but took the deciding fifth game on the home turf at Krasnodar, Russia on […]

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