Former Princeton guard Amir Bell has signed a contract with Hapoel Beer Sheva for the remainder of the Israeli Winner League season.
Bell is coming off a stint in the ASEAN League with the WM Dragons (Malaysia). In Israel, he will reunite with former Princeton teammate Spencer Weisz.
Fonte: Hapoel Beer Sheva.
Reale Mutua Torino will be the promoted from the Italian Serie A2 to the Serie A as the 18th team for the 2020-21 season.
The club is owned by Stefano Sardara who is also the president of Dinamo Sassari. He is now obliged to sell Torino as he can’t own more than one Serie A team.
The four EuroLeague teams from Spain are against the resumption of the Liga ACB season, according to Nova.rs.
The Liga ACB has been planning to finish the season with a tournament and will decide whether to go ahead or cancel the season by the end of May.
Fonte: Nova.rs.
Real Betis and forward Demitrius Conger have parted ways, the Spanish team announced.
Conger averaged 8.4 points and two rebounds in 18 minutes per game this season.
Fonte: Real Betis.
The list of teams from Italy that are expected to compete in the European leagues, based on the standings of the Italian Serie A’s 2019-20 season (subject to change if there are wild cards awarded):
Olimpia Milano: EuroLeague
Virtus Bologna: EuroCup
Germani Brescia: EuroCup
Dinamo Sassari: Basketball Champions League
Fortitudo Bologna: Basketball Champions League
Happy Casa Brindisi: Basketball Champions League
Teams can be added in EuroCup via wild cards (Venezia and/or Trento) or if Virtus goes to EuroLeague
The Italian Serie A’s 2020-21 season will be composed of 18 teams, including the 17 clubs from the 2019-20 season plus one from the Serie A2 (second division), sources told Sportando.
There will be one relegation from the Serie A to the A2 at the end of the 2020-21 season.
The season is expected to start on August 30 with a “Supercup” tournament with all Serie A teams. The regular season expected to begin on September 27.
For the Supercup, the teams will be divided into six groups of three teams each. The best team of each group plus the two best 2nd-place teams will advance to the quarterfinals. The Final Four to end the competition. The tournament will run from August 20 through September 20.
Former Nevada forward Jordan Caroline has signed a contract with Hapoel Eilat for the remainder of the Israeli Winner League season, the team announced.
Caroline most recently played for the South Bay Lakers in the NBA G League, averaging 11.7 points and 8.1 rebounds in 15 games.
Fonte: Hapoel Eilat.
Ayoub Nouhi will start his pro career in Belgium with Phoenix Brussels.
The rookie comes from Texas Arlington.
KK Buducnost Voli has announced the re-signing of Justin Cobbs. The American guard with passport from Montenegro penned a two-year deal.
Khimki Moscow GM Pavel Astakhov talked about Alexey Shved contract with Russian news agency RIA :
«There are no contract talks with Shved at this point. Overall, all possible negotiations are paused, everything is stopped».
Justin Cobbs re-signs with KK Buducnost .
American guard played 29 games this season with Montenegro team averaging 15.4 points and 7.3 assists in EuroCup.
Justin Cobbs has re-signed with KK Buducnost, I am told
— Emiliano Carchia (@Carchia) May 15, 2020
Darussafaka is seriously considering to leave EuroLeague Basketball competitions starting from 2021-2022
Turkish powerhouse Darussafaka is in talks with FIBA to join Basketball Champions League from next season, a source told Sportando and Trendbasket.
Dacka has played three seasons in EuroLeague, two with a wild card and one after winning the EuroCup title in 2018.
Darussafaka is mad at EuroLeague for how it was handled the decisive EuroCup Top 16 game against Virtus Bologna.
The Turkish team, after Virtus was not allowed to fly to Istanbul, tried to play the game in Berlin but EuroLeague refused to accept the proposal and organized the game in Belgrade without fans.
The game cost Darussafaka around €100k considering that they had to pay the Stark Arena around €80k plus the refund of tickets to the fans that had already bought the ticket for the game in Istanbul. Darussafaka asked to share the cost of arena but the request was denied.
Former New Mexico big man Joe Furstinger has agreed to a deal with Hapoel Beer Sheva of the Israeli Winner League, a source told Sportando.
The two sides reached an agreement for the rest of the current season – which will resume in June – with an option for 2020-21.
Furstinger played 22 games for GTK Gliwice in Poland this season, averaging 12.5 points, 7.5 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game while shooting 57.4 percent from the field.
Panathinaikos BC owner, Dimitris Giannakopoulos (aka dpg7000) unfollowed Nick Calathes on Instagram as reported by sport24.gr.
Dimitris Giannakopoulos alzo unfollowed Ioannis Papapetrou .
As reported by Sport 24, Georgios Vovoras will coach Panathinaikos next season.
Greek side, however, is in a midst of a revolution according to the same source, as Jimmer Fredette is engaged in complicated talks to terminate his contract and DeShaun Thomas is likely to leave Panathinaikos as well.
Both Thomas and Fredette had contracts until June 2021 with the ‘Greens’.
Fonte: Sport 24.
According to Dnevnik, Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana has engaged in a ‘serious campaign’ to host the possible Euroleague final phase to complete the current season.
Belgrade is however considered as a front runner, with Athens, Cologne and Kaunas whom has applied as well. As of today, Slovenia has recorded 102 deaths among 1460 COVID-19 cases.
Fonte: Dnevnik.
Pallacanestro Cantù signed coach Cesare Pancotto to a one-year contract extension.
The coach moved to Cantù last summer.
“I am proud to remain as head coach of Cantù” Pancotto said.
Interviewed by the Serbian website Espreso, Joffrey Lauvergne said that his goal is to win the EuroLeague title.
The French big man is playing with Fenerbahce this season.
“My dream is to win the EuroLeague. All the options (about the future) are in play and it is not impossibile a return to the NBA. Nothing is safe at the moment due to the coronavirus pandemic. We will see what will happen, but the most important thing is to continue playing, to be healthy, I hope that the season will continue, and if not, then I look forward for the next one.”
Despite reports, Zenit St. Petersburg has not made any offer to Nick Calathes, a league source told Sportando .
The Russian team doesn’t not know the budget for next season yet and they have not talked to any players regarding next year.
Greek media reported that Zenit offered a three-year contract worth more than €8 million to the point guard who is expected to leave Panathinaikos when the season ends.
Zenit St. Petersburg has offered Nick Calathes a three-year contract worth more than €8 million, according to Trifilara.
The proposal is €2.7 million per season, per three seasons.
The American-Greek point guard is expected to leave Panathinaikos when the season ends and may rejoin his former coach Xavi Pascual in the Russian team.
Zenit is trying to build a contender after a difficult first season in EuroLeague and wants to start from the Panathinaikos star.
Fonte: Trifilara.
Nick Calathes and Panathinaikos are ‘moving towards an amicable divorce’ after the end of the 2019-20 season, according to Nikos Varlas of Eurohoops.
Per Varlas, the two sides are working on parting ways as Panathinaikos is not willing to fully support Calathes’ big contract due to the COVID-19 crisis.
Fonte: Eurohoops.
Ukrainian president of AS Monaco Sergey Dyadechko said that the goal is to keep the core of team for next season.
“We will try to keep the core of the team. It is hard to say now if this is possible. There are too many uncertainties. But I am glad that all the players with whom we are in contact have said that they want to return to Montecarlo” he said.
Fonte: AS Monaco.
Aleksej Nikolic confirmed that he won’t return to Treviso Basket now that his loan expired.
The point guard, who has a contract with Partizan next season, may be back to the Serbian powerhouse or try to play for a team that will be in the European Cups.
“I think my experience with Treviso is over” Nikolic said. “I am already focused on next season. We’ll see if Partizan plays in EuroCup or EuroLeague. Playing a Cup is my desire for the future” Nikolic told La Tribuna di Treviso. “My experience with Treviso was great, very positive. Logan taught me a lot of things. I had a great relation with him”.
Michał Aleksandrowicz has signed a contract extension with Enea Astoria through the end of the 2021-22 season, the Polish team announced.
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? Michał Aleksandrowicz obchodzi dzisiaj 31. urodziny i postanowił zostać w naszym klubie na kolejne 2️⃣ lata ?
Panda ? życzymy Ci baaardzo dużo zdrowia, pociechy z rodziny i przede wszystkim jak najwięcej punktów w czarno-czerwonych barwach ?❤#Enea #Bydgoszcz #plkpl pic.twitter.com/HwQHKz0SMk
— Enea Astoria Bydgoszcz (@EneaAstoria) May 10, 2020
Former Buffalo forward Xavier Ford has signed a deal with Aix-Maurienne of the French Pro B, the team announced.
Ford played in Switzerland this season. He led the league in scoring with 24 points per game for Boncourt.
Fonte: Aix-Maurienne.
BM Slam Stal head coach Lukasz Majewski will remain with the team for the 2020-21 season.
The Polish side finished the season with 10 wins and 12 losses.
Fonte: PLK.
Former Virginia forward Anthony Gill will not stay with Khimki Moscow beyond this season, according to Nikos Varlas of Eurohoops.
Gill averaged 8.3 points, 4.5 rebounds this season in the EuroLeague before the hiatus. He also posted 11.2 points and 4.5 rebounds in VTB League action.
Fonte: Eurohoops.
Georgian 19-year-old point guard Rati Andronikashvili has committed to Creighton, he told ESPN’s Jonathan Givony.
Andronikashvili has played for his national team at the junior level in every age group. He has also played seven games at the senior level.
Fonte: ESPN.
French guard Benjamin Sene is expected to sign a deal with Boulazac Basket, according to BeBasket.
Sene parted ways with Gravelines-Dunkerque on Wednesday.
Fonte: BeBasket.
Telekom Baskets Bonn and center Alec Brown agreed to terminate the contract, the German team announced.
Brown averaged 10.8 points, 3.0 rebounds, and 1.1 blocks per game in the German BBL this season.
Fonte: Telekom Baskets Bonn.