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  • In a statement released by his agent, ten-time NBA All-Star Ray Allen will not play during the 2014-15 NBA season but leaves the door open for 2015-16. As the picture above suggests, he sure seems to be enjoying his time off. “Over the past several months, I have taken a lot of time to deliberate

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  • The United Nations is investigating an alleged air assault on Georgia after this video surfaced online. Clearly 7’1 center Giorgi Shermadini doesn’t read mattwemet.com. A flashback to Dyson’s January exchange with Italian center Tomas Ress: Good thing Dyson can ball because foreign affairs is clearly not his forte… Did a few names on that countdown

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  • 2015 BEKO-LKL voting is now underway until March 8th. Help Siauliai Center Ryan Olander return to Vilnius by following these voting instructions below. You may also win a trip for two to Turkey in the process… Note: DO NOT translate the page to English, for whatever reason I could not submit my vote. The pictures below

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  • The LKF Cup is an annual professional basketball competition held among the top 8 teams in the Lithuanian National League (LKL). At #7, Siauliai barely qualified for the tournament. They did however create the most buzz, knocking off heavily favored #2 Neptunas of the Euroleague in the quarterfinals, a club who had only lost three

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  • Dinamo Sassari dominates the 2015 Beko Final Eight Top 10 plays including two from Jerome Dyson. Also of note- though the smallest state in the United States, Rhode Island produced #1 and #2 in the countdown, MarShon Brooks (Providence College) and Rakim Sanders (Pawtucket). Dyson and Sassari return to action February 28th when they battle

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  • In a tournament full of star power and prolific scorers, Jerome Dyson led them all. Dyson’s 54 combined tournament points led #4 Sassari to its second consecutive Italian Cup, including 27 in a championship win over #1 seed Milan. The Italian Cup is a professional basketball competition between the top 8 pro clubs from the

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  • No this is not a trailer from a new Spiderman movie but Byron Jones, former UConn DB who destroyed the NFL Combine broad jump record today by 8 INCHES! According to one tweet, Jones’ mark could be the best on record in human history. What’s more impressive, Jones isn’t even 100% healthy after season ending surgery

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  • Jerome Dyson with the ridiculous finish in the Beko Final 8 against Milan. More on this game later… Jerome Dyson with CIRCUS SHOT and One https://t.co/dOZQpNMPBk — Sportando (@Sportando) February 22, 2015

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  • Alex Oriakhi was awarded the BEKO-LKL player of the month for January after posting averages of 12 points and 7 rebounds for Pieno Zvaigzdes. Oriakhi and former Missouri teammate Michael Dixon have starred for Zvaigzdes -or “Milk Stars”- during a recent win streak that has propelled the club to fifth place in the LKL standings. As

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  • State of the UConn

    State of the UConn   President Herbst, AD Manuel, Coach Ollie and all those who bleed blue: We are two years into this new conference. No longer a member of the most dominant conference in college basketball but rather, the American Athletic Conference. A conference reminiscent of the island of misfit toys in the Christmas

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