FC Barcelona guard Kyle Kuric has agreed to a two-year contract extension, according to Mundo Deportivo.
Kuric averaged 9.4 points on 44-percent shooting from 3-point range in the EuroLeague this season.
Fonte: Mundo Deportivo.
Italian forward Valerio Mazzola has signed a multi-year contract extension with EuroCup’s Umana Reyer Venice, the team announced.
Mazzola has already spent two seasons with the Italian club, winning an Italian Serie A championship and an Italian Cup.
Fonte: Umana Reyer Venezia.
ABA Liga club KK Cibona Zagreb announced the signing of guard Mateo Dreznjak to a four-year deal.
The 21-year-old Dreznjak spent this past season in Bosnia with Siroki, averaging 15.1 points and 4.1 assists per game.
Dreznjak made his official debut with the Croatian senior national team at the EuroBasket 2021 qualifiers.
Fonte: KK Cibona.
Former Nebraska guard Terran Petteway has signed a deal with Peristeri of the Greek A1 league, the team announced.
Petteway spent this past season in the Italian Serie A, averaging 16.3 points, 4.3 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game for Pistoia.
Fonte: Peristeri.
Italian newspaper Il Resto del Carlino reports that Fenerbahce guard Nando De Colo is Virtus Bologna’s main target for the upcoming season, and could arrive in Italy if Fenerbahce will part ways with Zeljko Obradovic. For the newspaper, De Colo would not based his decision to join Virtus on the competition played between Euroleague and Eurocup.
French guard has still a 2-year contract with Fenerbahce (but there is an option on 2021-22), and Eurohoops reports that De Colo net salary is $2.6 million per year.
Fonte: Il Resto del Carlino.
Japanese side Gunma Crane Thunders is close to reaching an agreement with Brian Qvale, a source told Sportando.
The former Lokomotiv Kuban and Virtus Bologna center spent the season with Shimane Susanoo Magic averaging 19.5ppg, 10.3rpg and 3.1apg.
Italian side Openjobmetis Varese and guard Josh Mayo have agreed to part ways despite a contract until June 2021, according to La Prealpina.
Mayo’s future will still be in Italy, as former Bonn guard is expected to sign a 2-year deal with Serie A2 side Napoli.
Fonte: La Prealpina.
The Houston Rockets are looking at several options for a roster move in preparation for the return of the NBA season. According to Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle, one player that the Rockets are considering is free agent guard Tyler Johnson.
Johnson was waived by the Phoenix Suns in February after the trade deadline.
Fonte: Houston Chronicle.
Former Troy and North Georgia guard Shawn Hopkins has signed a deal with Pyrinto Tampere of the Finnish Korisliiga, the team announced.
Hopkins played for BC Nokia this past season.
Fonte: Pyrinto Tampere.
Former Milwaukee center Brett Prahl has signed a deal with HydroTruck Radom of the Polish EBL, the team announced.
Prahl has already played in Poland with Polpharma Starogard Gdanski over the past two seasons.
Maccabi Tel Aviv has been fined another 30,000 Israeli new shekels (around 8,700 USD) by the Winner League after Amar’e Stoudemire broke quarantine for the second time.
The league also warned that if Stoudemire breaks again quarantine, he must be in isolation for two weeks without even going to practice and games.
Fonte: ONE.
Former NBA big man Jeff Ayres has signed a deal with the Nagoya Diamond Dolphins of the Japanese league, the team announced.
Ayres has already played in Japan over the past two seasons.
Croatian center Marin Maric has signed a deal with Lietkabelis of the EuroCup and Lithuanian LKL, the team announced.
Maric played for Okapi Aalst in Belgium this past season. He was the best rebounder in the Belgian league with 8.8 boards per game.
EuroCup and ABA Liga club Cedevita Olimpija announced that Jaka Blazic has signed a two-year contract extension.
.@JakaBlazic, veseli in ponosni smo, da ostajaš v Zmajevem gnezdu! 💚🧡 #ZmajevoSrce pic.twitter.com/8pXFRc4cYz
— Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana (@KKCedOL) June 19, 2020
Marcus Foster is expected to sign his contract with Panathinaikos on Friday, according to George Zakkas of SDNA.
The former Creighton guard played for Hapoel Holon this past season and averaged 17.8 points per game in the Basketball Champions League.
Fonte: George Zakkas.
The Jilin Northeast Tigers of the CBA sign Sean Hill. He last played the 2018-2019 season for FC Artsakh in Armenia and Basketball Club Batumi in Georgia. Sean Hill was in China prior to China banning foreign entry to all forgeiners therefore being one of the few basketball players who remained in China prior playing in wildball tournaments.
OFFICIAL: The Jilin Northeast Tigers of the CBA sign Sean Hill. He last played the 2018-2019 season for FC Artsakh in Armenia and Basketball Club Batumi in Georgia. pic.twitter.com/9i22AxsFdl
— HDXposure Basketball (@HDXBasketball) June 19, 2020
Donar signs forward Kjeld Zuidema. The young forward had last season in the U21 12.3 points, 8 rebounds and 3.1 assists.
The New York Knicks will interview Jamahl Mosley for the head coaching job.
Mosley is Carlisle’s assistant in Dallas.
Mosley was one of the candidates for Cavaliers head coaching job last season.
Dallas Mavericks assistant Jamahl Mosley has permission to interview for the New York Knicks coaching job, sources tell ESPN. In his sixth season with Rick Carlisle, Mosley has emerged as a head coaching candidate in league. He interviewed for Cavaliers job last year.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 19, 2020
Polpharma Starogard announced the signing of James Washington.
The player spent last season between Romania and Croatia.
With KK Split he averaged 9.1ppg.
Fonte: PLK.
Pallacanestro Trieste announced the signing of Andrejs Grazulis for one season with an option for a second year.
The Latvian forward comes from Derthona where he averaged 16.8 points and 8.3 rebounds in Serie A2.
Two board members of Galatasaray, Erol Özmandıracı and Ömer Cansever, have resigned due to the differences of opinion regarding the continuation of GM Ömer Yalçınkaya.
Coach Ertugrul Erdogan is still without a contract for next seasons even if the two sides are negotiating since months the extension.
The news was reported by Ismail Senol.
Pallacanestro Cantù announced that Gabriele Procida has signed a four-year deal with the team.
The 2002-born has played 7 games in 2019-2020 scoring 9 points with 3 on 3 from the arc against Reyer Venezia.
Stevan Jelovac has penned a deal in Japan with Neophoenix.
The Serbian forward spent the season with Gaziantep.
“I feel very excited, I can’t wait for the new season to start I hope it will be successful…
I‘ll do my best, and I can play both big positions, I’m especially thankful that I will know better Japanese culture and history, which fascinated me for years” Jelovac said.
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Fonte: Neophoenix.
Fenerbahce announced that Zeljko Obradovic has returned to his country after the negotiations had this week.
The Serbian coach will talk to his family and notify Fenerbahce of his decision early next week.
Fonte: Fenerbahce.
Zeljko Obradovic reportedly has an agreement with Fenerbahce.
According to DHA, after the meeting Zeljko Obradovic agreed 2M € (before it was 3) per year and 20M € (before it was 30) team budget.
Serbian coach would have refused the Ali Koc offer of a private flight to return to Belgrade.
Openjobmetis Varese evaluates a new offer for Toney Douglas as reported by La Prealpina.
American guard signed a contract with Varese before the championship suspension for emergency Covid-19.
VL Pesaro offers a two-year contract with an option for another season to coach Maurizio Buscaglia according with il Resto del Carlino.
The answer is expected for the weekend.
Greek powerhouse Olympiacos has reportedly reached an agreement with American guard, with Serbian passport, Charles Jenkins according to Novosti.
Jenkins comes off a season with Crvena Zvezda, where he averaged 4.6 points per game.
Fonte: Novosti.
Greek powerhouse Panathinaikos is reportedly in advanced talks with sharpshooter Marcus Foster, according to Eurohoops.
American guard comes off a season with Hapoel Holon in which he averaged 19.2 points per game between Winner League and Basketball Champions League.
Fonte: Eurohoops.
Olimpia Milan has reached a deal with Kevin Punter, who was born in New York, on June 25, 1993, and is coming from Red Star Belgrade. He’s a 1.93 mt shooting guard. “I’m ecstatic, I can’t wait to come to Milan and start working to try to do something special in my return to Italy,” Punter said. “Kevin is a young player who is constantly improving, with the necessary experience to help Olimpia: we are happy to have him with us,” Olimpia’s general manager Christos Stavropoulos said.
HIS CAREER – Born and raised in the Bronx, in New York, he attended the Salesian High School in New Rochelle. In 2011 he moved to the Body of Christ Academy in Raleigh, North Carolina where he averaged 24.2 points per game. From 2012 to 2014 he played at the State Fair Community College in Missouri (20.3 points per game in his second year) and finally played from 2014 to 2016 at Tennessee. In his first season he averaged 10.3 points per game, in the second he exploded to 22.2 points per game, made 36.9% of his three-point attempts, 81.7% of his free throws and dished 3.5 assists per game. He was included in the second All-SEC team and was the conference second-best scorer. In 2016, he made his professional debut in Greece, playing for Lavrio and then ended the season in Antwerp in Belgium. In 2017, he played for Rosa Radom in Poland. In February of 2018 he moved to AEK Athens where he won the Greek Cup and the Fiba BCL (15.3 points per game, while converting 41.9% of his threes). The following season he played at Virtus Bologna and again won the Fiba BCL, winnin the Final Four MVP award (he had 26 points and seven rebounds in the championship game against Tenerife). In 2019, he played for Olympiacos Piraeus until December, making his EuroLeague debut, and then finished the season at Red Star Belgrade. In 12 games with the team he averaged 15.9 points per game, made 48.1% of his threes and 89.4% of his free throws, with an open streak of nine consecutive double-digit games, including the 24 points that he scored against Alba Berlin and Panathinaikos Athens.
NOTES – He averaged 19.3 points per game in the Polish game, playing for Rosa Radom. He appeared in 29 Italian games in 2018/19, averaging 14.2 points per game.