February 4, 2012 - Doron Perkins headed to Cantu With
what could turn out to be exquisite timing, Bennet Cantu announced
Saturday that combo guard Doron Perkins would join the club, pending
medical exams on Monday, just a couple days before the Turkish Airlines
Euroleague signing deadline for the season. Read more here.
February 4, 2012 - Heat use late run to top 76ers 99-79 With
LeBron James running the show, Miami ran the Sixers out of their
building. Dwyane Wade scored 26 points, and James had 19 points and 12
rebounds to lift the Miami Heat to a 99-79 win over the Philadelphia
76ers on Friday night. Read more here.
February 4, 2012 - Wolves overcome Morrow’s 42 to beat Nets 108-105 The
Minnesota Timberwolves almost never won away from home last season.
Now, they don’t seem eager to go back there. Luke Ridnour made the
tiebreaking 3-pointer with 1:23 left, Nikola Pekovic scored a
career-high 27 points, and the Timberwolves beat the New Jersey Nets
108-105 on Friday night to surpass last season’s road victory total.
Read more here.
February 4, 2012 - Efes loses Kuqo to injury On
the heels of a loaning one veteran away this week, Anadolu Efes
Istanbul announced Friday that it had lost another to a long-term
injury. On Friday, a day after loaning point guard Vlado Ilievski to
Eurocup contender Lokomotiv Kuban of Russia, Efes announced that center
Ermal Kuqo would be out two months after undergoing surgery for an
unspecified injury. Read more here.
February 3, 2012 - Steven Smith two weeks out Steven
Smith of Panathinaikos underwent an MRI scan on Friday that showed a
muscular tear in his left leg and will be sidelined for about two
weeks. Smith was injured seven minutes into the game against Fenerbahce
in Istanbul. Read more here.
February 3, 2012 - Lazovski to coach FYR of Macedonia Marjan
Lazovski has been appointed the new coach of FYR of Macedonia. This
follows the departure of Marin Dokuzovski who left to focus on his
Bulgarian club side Lukoil Academic. Read more here.
February 3, 2012 - ABA Adriatic League, Regular Season, Game 21 Believe
or not, this weekend we will have Game 21, even most of the teams
played only 18 games, Cedevita Zagreb and Crvena Zvezda Beograd only
17. Ohh well, people from ABA Adriatic league changes schedule due to
Maccabi and their Turkish Airlines Euroleague games, but couldn’t you
guys just change numbers of scheduled weeks? Read more here.
February 3, 2012 - 2012 All-Star starters named Two cities and three franchises accounted for six of the 10 players voted starters for the 2012 NBA All-Star Game,
announced Thursday. Dwyane Wade and LeBron James of the Miami Heat were
voted Eastern Conference starters for the Feb. 26 game at Amway Center
in Orlando. Read more here.
February 3, 2012 - CSKA's Khryapa, out until March As
confirmed by the club, CSKA Moscow forward Viktor Khryapa will be out
for approximately one month, due to a dislocation on his index finger.
Khryapa is expected to be back in March, which means that he will miss
the rest of the Top 16. Read more here.
February 3, 2012 - Euroleague Top 16, Week 3 bwin MVP: Nenad Krstic, CSKA Moscow One
of the central figures in what is shaping up to be a season for the
record books for CSKA Moscow is center Nenad Krstic. The big man added
to his stellar campaign this week by picking up Top 16, Week 3 bwin MVP
honors and thus joining teammate Andrei Kirilenko among only three
players to claim that title twice this season. Read more here.
February 2, 2012 - Turkish Airlines Euroleague, Week 3 The
Turkish Airlines Euroleague Top 16 hit its halfway mark with Week 3’s
eight contests. With three games left in this phase of the competition,
all teams are still alive and none have made the playoffs yet, but that
could change as soon as next week. In fact, there is the potential for
seven of the eight playoffs tickets to be handed out in one week’s
time! Read more here.
February 1, 2012 - Anadolu Efes loans Ilievski out to Lokomotiv Kuban Anadolu
Efes has agreed to send veteran playmaker Vlado Ilievski on loan to
Eurocup contender Lokomotiv Kuban for the remainder of the season.
Ilievski (1.88 meters, 32 years old) will be eligible to compete in the
Eurocup from the next game against Benetton Basket. Read more here.
February 1, 2012 - Eurocup Last 16 Game 3 MVP: Nando De Colo, Valencia Basket Former
Eurocup champion and First Team All-Eurocup selection Nando De Colo
added another achievement in the competition as he set career highs in
scoring, steals and performance index rating en route to an important
Valencia Basket victory and Last 16, Game 3 MVP honors. Read more here.
February 1, 2012 - Euroleague Top 16, Week 3: High hopes heading into halfway point! The
Turkish Airlines Euroleague Top 16 is about to reach its halfway mark
with four undefeated teams eyeing early qualification to the playoffs,
another four - one per group - looking first victories and eight teams
with 1-1 records aiming for second place or higher. Action starts with
three games on Wednesday. Read more here.
February 1, 2012 - Zalgiris releases Nelson Zalgiris
Kaunas released rookie forward Reeves Nelson, the club announced
Tuesday. Nelson was originally signed for one-month with a team option
to extend the deal for the rest of the season, but Zalgiris declined
the option on the last day of January. Read more here.
February 1, 2012 - Bojan Krstovic reaches 100th Eurocup game! Eurocup
veteran Bojan Krstovic reached a new milestone Tuesday when he became
the first player to reach 100 Eurocup games. In his 100th Eurocup game,
Krstovic scoring 6 points in 22 minutes for Buducnost Voli against
Banvit BK. Read more here.
