5 By easily disposing of Vitoria (87-69) in Basque soil, Maccabi Tel-Aviv has chained a fifth straight victory in the Euroleague, carried by the 21 points and 7 rebounds of Derrick Williams, as well as 14 points and 8 assists by Keenan Evans. With 6 wins for 2 losses, the Israeli club, points, tied with … Read more
Jaylen Brown, the Boston winger, was comfortably seated on the bench awaiting the final buzzer, with 36 points. His Celtics, far ahead in the fourth quarter (113-86, 41st), had only to finish the job on the floor of the Staples Center in Los Angeles, against the still decimated Lakers, deprived of their duo LeBron James … Read more
It is the first day of his new life. After seven years at the Orlando Magic (19.7 points last season before his ephemeral transfer to Boston) and a divine Olympic silver medal this summer in Tokyo, Evan Fournier (2.01 m, 28) wants to accomplish what no one before him, he has not succeeded in the … Read more
Just three weeks away from resuming the NBA, one week away from training camps, Minnesota made a rare and radical decision on Wednesday by sacking its president of basketball operations, Colombian Gersson Rosas. – – “The Timberwolves have decided to part ways with Gersson Rosas”, jointly announced, in a statement, the franchise and Glen Taylor, … Read more
The blue bus left the Stark Arena waddling. After their final training in the den which hosts their quarter-final of the Euro against Serbia this evening, the French women returned to their hotel, enveloped by the swaying and colorful vocals, between afrobeat and zouk, by the Nigerian artist Olamide . The young Amélie Rotar, untenable … Read more
New York and Washington, two of the great stories of this NBA season, are on vacation. Knicks and Wizards were respectively eliminated by Atlanta (103-89) and Philadelphia (129-112) on the night of Wednesday to Thursday. The Hawks and the Sixers, both winners of their series of the first round of the play-offs on the final … Read more
It was like an explosion. It was around eleven o’clock, four o’clock in France, and Evan Fournier was hanging out in tap dancing in the living room of his home in Winter Park, in the suburb of Orlando, when his wife Laura stood in front of him and started to walk. gesticulate to let him … Read more
Miami full-back Victor Oladipo (1.93m, 29) decided to step onto the pool table to heal his right quadriceps, the Florida franchise announced on Wednesday. The operation will take place on Thursday. We will therefore not see the player on the court again this season in the NBA. – – The bad memory of 2019 Oladipo … Read more
After Facundo Campazzo and Gabriel Deck, who both left Real Madrid, in the middle of the season, respectively for Denver and Oklahoma City, a third Argentine international, Vitoria’s point guard Luca Vildoza (1.91 m, 25 years old), will also cross the Atlantic to join the New York Knicks, multiple sources said on Wednesday. The club … Read more
While waiting in Philadelphia, where he landed in the last offseason but hardly played (10 matches, 4 minutes, 0.8 point average), the international pivot Vincent Poirier (2.13 m, 27 years old) ) will bounce back in New York, among the Knicks, according to our information, since confirmed, in particular by a tweet from the player. … Read more