Basketball World Cup in Spain

Top Teams Assess Their Chances as Countdown Begins For 2014 Basketball World Cup in Spain

 August 20, 2014   R K Gupta

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The World Basketball Championship, which has been rechristened as Basketball World Cup in 2014 is merely 10 days away and the World Cup cities in Spain are already bearing a festive and colorful appearances. The event may not generate the same frenzy as did the Brazil’s football World Cup but there are millions of avid […]

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Carmelo Anthony

Carmelo Anthony: The American basketball legend in making

 July 15, 2014   Kirti Daga

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Playing basketball since high school, Carmelo Kyam Anthony born in New York City is a member of the USA National Team as a player of the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association. Anthony has always set world records wherever he has played. While playing for his college in Syracuse, he helped the college […]

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Basketball

A New World Cup Coming Up in 45 Days in Spain and This Time You Have Basketball.

 July 12, 2014   R K Gupta

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Well only the name is different. The world basketball championship has been in existence since 1950 under the auspices of FIBA, the International Basketball Federation. From Argentina in 1950, FIBA’s flagship tournament has been staged every four years with the 16th edition having been hosted by Turkey in 2010. Until now the tournament has been […]

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Maccabi Electra

Underdogs Maccabi Electra Sink Real Madrid To Become Basketball Kings of Europe

 May 20, 2014   R K Gupta

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In the most unexpected way, Israel’s Maccabi Electra emerged as European Basketball champions by defeating the fancied Spanish club Real Madrid 96-86 in overtime in Sunday night’s euro-league final at Milan. After 1969, Sunday’s final was the first to go into the overtime. It was Maccabi Electra’s sixth title victory in euro-league basketball and the […]

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Euro-league

Miraculous Maccabi To Take on Real Madrid in Euro-league Basketball Final on Sunday

 May 18, 2014   R K Gupta

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In two entirely contrasting semifinal games played on Friday night, Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv and Real Madrid won their games and came on course to meet each other in the grand finale on Sunday, May 18, 2014. While the first match between Maccabi Electra and CSKA Moscow was full of thrills, the second between Real […]

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Euro-League Basketball

Final Four Emerge After Absorbing Play-off Games In Euro-League Basketball

 May 3, 2014   R K Gupta

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From April 15 to 25, 2014, 17 play-off games were held in Milan, Madrid, Moscow, Barcelona, Tel Aviv, Istanbul and Athens. The Final Four, which will now travel to Milan for the last four games of 2014 Turkish Airlines Euro-League Basketball are; FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, CSKA Moscow and Maccabi Electra. In the season’s most […]

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Euro-league Basketball

2013-14 Euro-league Basketball Regular Season Ends on Memorable Notes

 December 21, 2013   R K Gupta

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Finally, a grueling regular season for Turkish Airlines sponsored Euro-League Basketball competition; has come to an end.  The season began on October 17 and lasted until yesterday, December 20, 2013. The 24 qualifiers were divided in 4 Groups, A, B, C & D and as per the tournament format, the 6 teams in each Group […]

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Eurobasket 2013 poster

Eurobasket 2013 reached new levels of social networking

 October 1, 2013   Maria Mitsova

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The 2013 European basketball championship in Slovenia might be remembered as the first one to be completely covered by the social media cloud. With Twitter developing every day new circles of connections, Eurobasket 2013 used it to reach out to media and people on another level. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube were constantly updated from the FIBA […]

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EuroBasket2013 France winning Team

Eurobasket 2013: When the players do the talking

 September 28, 2013   Maria Mitsova

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Great coaches make great players. Talent, work, and good coaching is what it takes to climb up the ladder.When it comes to National teams though, we might have witnessed something different. I can’t claim to be the best analyst in the business of basketball writing, and there are surely thousands of experts to make better […]

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Photo from EuroBasket 2013

Turkey and Russia fall in flames out of Eurobasket 2013

 September 16, 2013   Maria Mitsova

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Turkey and Russia may as well compete who is the bigger disappointment on Eurobasket 2013.Both teams left for Slovenia with great expectations, and came back home after just one week of the tournament. Both were placed in the same group, together with Greece, Italy, Finland and Sweden, with the three best to move to the […]

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