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The League The Baltic Basketball League (BBL) is a regional competition comprised primarily of teams in the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania but has included clubs from Finland, Kazakhstan, Sweden and Russia in previous years. The Format The BBL includes a regular season featuring two groups of six teams and one group of
Tyler Olander returns to the Top 10 with an alley-oop dunk over his former team Siauliai (#2). TO finished with 9 points and 2 rebounds for #11 Mazeikiai but Ryan Olander (4 points/3 rebounds) and #7 Siauliai got the last laugh, holding on for a 90-81 victory. Game Highlights: Full Game:
Jerome Dyson continues to stuff the stat sheet with 11 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists in #3 Dinamo Sassari’s victory over #11 Air Avellino. The flashiest dish shows up in the Legabasket Serie A Top Ten plays at #8, when Dyson serves one up to Nigerian center Shane Lawal (Oakland/Wayne State). In honor of
This team just didn’t have it. There is no other way to put it. Ryan Boatright is not Kemba Walker, Ryan Boatright is not Shabazz Napier and the UConn Huskies fell short in the American Athletic Conference Tournament Championship game yesterday. Although our NCAA Tournament hopes rimmed around and bounced out, I saw something in
This Milk Star is officially an All-Star. A big congratulations to former UConn forward Alex Oriakhi who was named an All-Star starter in the 2015 BEKO-LKL All-Star game. Oriakhi, averaging 10 points/7 rebounds for #4 Pieno Zvaigzdes (Milk Stars), was recently named BEKO-LKL player of the month for January. If you missed it, here is
The Baltic Region was ripe with victory last week as both Olanders picked up big wins for their respective clubs. Ryan Olander dropped 13 points/4 rebounds in a win for #7 Siauliai over #8 Lietkabelis while Tyler Olander just missed a double-double contributing 9 points/9 rebounds for #11 Mazeikiai in their upset of #9 Tonybet. If
Jerome Dyson does his best Rajon Rondo impression at #8 in this week’s Legabasket Serie A Top 10 plays: Dyson finished with 17 points in #3 Sassari’s 75-71 victory over former Georgetown guard Chris Wright and #15 VL Pesaro.
Watch below as Niels Giffey scores 9 of ALBA Berlin’s final 11 points, including the game-tying and game-winning three over Khalid El-Amin’s Goettingen. Although as UConn fans already know, the two-time National Champion’s shooting touch gets much softer come March… Giffey finished with 14 points/4 rebounds in just 21 minutes of action while El-Amin added
It has definitely been an adjustment year for Tyler Olander, transitioning from a senior season which saw him struggle to find minutes to a professional league competing against seasoned veterans. Last month, Olander was loaned from Siauliai to fellow league member Mazeikiai in order to get the young lefty more playing time. Loans are common