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Chris Dowe signing with Brose Bamberg

Veteran guard Chris Dowe has reached an agreement on a deal with Brose Bamberg in Germany’s Bundesliga, sources told Sportando.

Dowe, 30, recently became a free agent after his former team, Ukraine’s Prometey, withdrew from competition for the rest of the season due to the critical situation in the country.

Dowe averaged 10.9 points, 4.7 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game in the Basketball Champions League, and 10.7 points, four rebounds and 2.3 assists in the Ukrainian Superleague.

Real Madrid’s Pablo Laso reportedly on the hot seat

Real Madrid legendary coach Pablo Laso is on the hot seat as reported by Marca.

Spanish powerhouse starts tomorrow a crucial week in Belgrade. After Crvena Zvedza the opponents will be Olimpia Milano and San Pablo Burgos.

Laso inked his firt contract with Real Madrid in 2011 and won 2 EuroLeague, 5 Spanish League, 6 Spanish Cup, 6 Spanish Supercup.

Vanoli Cremona signs Adas Juskevicius

Vanoli Cremona signs Adas Juskevicius until the end of the season, Im told.

Lithuanian guard averaged 12.6 points, 2.8 rebounds and 4.5 assists this season in VTB with Parma Perm.

Sources: D’Angelo Harrison returning to Happy Casa Brindisi

D’Angelo Harrison reached an agreement to return to Brindisi, sources tell Sportando.

The St.John’s product will sign a contract until the end of the season, with a player option for next year.

Harrison had started the season in Ukraine with Prometey, the club that yesterday decided to withdraw the team from BCL due to the war.

Jared Savage returns to BC Lavrio

Jared Savage returns to Greece and signs with BC Lavrio, where he played his rookie year.

The guard played the first part of the season in Germany with Merlins Crailsheim (5.6 ppg, 2.8 rpg)

Happy Casa Brindisi interested in bringing D’Angelo Harrison back

Happy Casa Brindisi is trying to sign D’Angelo Harrison, sources tell Sportando and Israeli reporter Yakov Meir.
The American has left Ukrainian team Prometey and is a free agent.

The Italian team made an offer to Harrison and is trying to convince him to rejoin the club where he has played last season averaging 16.8ppg in Serie A and more than 18ppg in BCL.

Harrison was averaging 15ppg in both BCL and Ukrainian Superleague this season.

UNICS Kazan reportedly suing Jarrell Brantley for $250,000 after player departure

UNICS Kazan is reportedly suing forward Jarrell Brantley for $250,000, according to Ian Begley of SNY. Begley adds that the Russian club has reportedly expressed “disappointment” for the player’s departure from the team and that Brantley is trying to sign in G-League, with UNICS is making an effort to stop the transfer

Brantley averaged 3.3 ppg and 1.6 rpg in 23 Euroleague games in his first experience overseas

Malcom Brogdon reportedly leaning towards playing for Poland NT

Indiana Pacers guard Malcolm Brogdon would like to suit up for Poland’s national team in future international competitions, according to Lukasz Ceglinski of Sport.pl. Former Rookie of the Year is interested into accepting Polish citizenship and the Polish Basketball Federation is working to make the move happen. Poland will play Serbia, Czech Republic, Finland, Israel, and Netherlands in Prague in the upcoming Eurobasket group

Brogdon, whose wife has Polish roots, visited Poland last summer. He’s averaging 18.9 ppg and 5.9 apg over 31 games this season with the Pacers

Virtus Bologna has verbal agreement with Hackett through June 2024 but no deal yet with CSKA

Virtus Bologna and Daniel Hackett have reached a verbal agreement till June 2024, sources tell Sportando.

The Italian reigning champions has been pursued Hackett since weeks (Hackett has not been offered) and they are close to signing him but there is no deal yet.

Virtus Bologna and CSKA Moscow are negotiating the release of the Italian International but there is no agreement between the two sides, sources added. The buyout requested by CSKA Moscow is too high and the two clubs continue the talks.

The contract of Hackett with Virtus would be fully guaranteed till June 2024.

Segafredo Virtus Bologna reportedly monitoring Jordan Mickey

As reported by George Zakkas, Virtus Bologna is not only working on the arrival of Daniel Hackett.

In fact, the Italian club has also targeted Zenith St. Petersburg big man Jordan Mickey.

Like Hackett, Mickey also has his contract expiring at the end of the season.

The reporter explains that the Italian team will make a move only if they will terminate the contract with their respective teams.

According to Orazio Cauchi of Basketnews ‘the plan of the Italian team is to add both a backcourt and a frontcourt player.

Fos Provence signs Egidijus Mockevicius, Deishuan Booker

Fos Provence announced the arrivals of center Egidijus Mockevicius and guard Deishuan Booker.

 

Mockevicius spent last season at Le Mans (5.2 points per game, 4 rebounds), while Booker played with the same French team this year (7.2 ppg, 3 apg, 1 spg in BetClic Elite).

 

Archie Goodwin joins Maccabi Rishon

Maccabi Rishon has announced the signing of Archie Goodwin with a contract until the end of the season.

The Kentucky product was playing in Ukraine with BC Budivelnik (16.2 ppg, 6 rpg, 2 spg).

Dante Exum stays with Barcelona until the end of the season

Barça and Dante Exum have reached an agreement to extend the Australian guard’s contract until 30 June 2022. Exum’s current contract ended on Monday 28 February.

Valuable asset

Since his arrival in December 2021, Exum has featured in 17 matches, 11 in the Euroleague, three in the Endesa League and three in the Copa del Rey. In Europe he averages 16 minutes with six points, (53% in three pointers) and 2.7 rebounds whilst in domestic competition he averages 17 minutes with 6.3 points and a valuation of 8.3.

His best game came against Real Madrid in the Euroleague with 13 points, 3 rebounds and a valuation of 19.

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