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2008–09 Korisliiga Season
The Korisliiga is the premier basketball league in Finland. The 2008-09 season was the 69th Finnish club basketball season. It began on October 3, 2008 and ended on May 16, 2009. Namika Lahti won the Final series by 3-0 against Joensuun Kataja. Antti Nikkilä won the MVP Award and Vesa Mäkäläinen Vesa Mäkäläinen (born September 3, 1986) is a Finnish professional basketball player. He currently plays for Lahti Basketball in Finland. Standing at 6 ft 6.7 in (2.00 m), he usually plays as forward (basketball), forward. External links Playe ... won the Finals MVP Award. Regular season Individual leaders Statistics are for the regular season. Scoring Assists Rebounds Playoffs ReferencesKorisliiga Schedule & Results {{DEFAULTSORT:2008-09 Korisliiga season Korisliiga seasons Finnish Koris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007–08 Korisliiga Season
The Korisliiga is the premier basketball league in Finland. The 2007-08 season was the 68th Finnish club basketball season. It began on October 6, 2007 and ended on April 27, 2008. The Espoon Honka successfully defended their national championship with a 3-1 victory over the Kouvot. Petteri Koponen won the MVP Award and Akeem Scott won the Finals MVP Award. Regular season Individual leaders Statistics are for the regular season. Scoring Assists Rebounds Playoffs ReferencesKorisliiga Schedule & Results {{DEFAULTSORT:2007-08 Korisliiga season Korisliiga seasons Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ... Koris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UU-Korihait
Korihait ( en, Basket Sharks) is a Finnish basketball team from Uusikaupunki. It was formed as Uudenkaupungin Urheilijat, shortly UU, in 1898 and has won one Korisliiga Finnish Championship (1990) and two Finnish Cups (1986, 1988). In 1994 UU had financial problems and entered bankruptcy. Korihait then took UU's place in the league. The club play at Pohitullin Sports Hall, which has also hosted the Finland men's national handball team. Players {{player1 , num = 1 , nat = USA , first = Trevor , last = Blondin , pos = PG/SG {{player3 , num = 2 , nat = USA , first = Casey , last = Benson , pos = PG , m = 1.91 , kgs = 85 {{player3 , num = 3 , nat = FIN , first = Elias , last = Eerikinharju , pos = SG , m = 1.87 , kgs = 83 {{player3 , num = 4 , nat = FIN , first = Eemil , last = Wahlbäck , pos = SF , m = 1.95 , kgs = 80 {{player3 , num = 5 , nat = FIN , first = Elias , last = Lahdensuu , pos = SF , m = 1.93 , kgs = 88 {{player3 , num = 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Cunningham (basketball)
Raymond Lee Cunningham (January 17, 1905 – July 30, 2005) was an American third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1931 and 1932. He batted and threw right-handed. A native of Mesquite, Texas, Cunningham played briefly for the Cardinals at third base before an injury cut short his career. He injured himself, whipping a sidearm throw to first base on a swinging bunt. Life Cunningham was a 26-year-old rookie when he joined the Cardinals for the final weeks of the 1931 season. His salary was $500 a year. During his time with St. Louis, Cunningham roomed with two Cardinal legends, Dizzy Dean and Pepper Martin. In a two-season career, Cunningham was a .154 hitter with one RBI and no home runs in 14 games. Following his retirement as a player, Cunningham worked as a salesman and for an oil company. In 2004, he was recognized as the oldest living former Major League Baseball player. He gained this distinction when a former pitcher fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chanan Colman
Chanan Safir Colman ( he, חנן ספיר קולמן; born March 10, 1984) is a Danish-Israeli professional basketball player for Hapoel Haifa of the Israel Basketball Premier League. He played college basketball for Chipola before playing professionally in Finland, Israel, Denmark. Colman was named the Finnish League Finals MVP in 2006 and the Danish League MVP in 2012. Personal life Colman was born in Gladsaxe, Denmark to an Israeli mother and an American Jewish father. He started playing basketball when he was 9 years old. During an interview in 2017, Chanan revealed that he speaks a total of three languages; Danish, English and Hebrew. Since 2014, Colman has ran a basketball camp for children in Denmark aged 8-19, named Camp Colman, which hosts hundreds of children each year. In 2021, Colman began dating British singer/songwriter Jessie J. On January 6th 2023, the couple announced they are expecting their first baby together later in the year Professional career Early ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damon Williams
Damon Williams (born December 13, 1973) is an American former professional basketball player from Seattle. He achieved notable success playing for Tampereen Pyrintö in the Finnish Korisliiga. During his professional playing career he also played multiple seasons in Italy. Pyrintö retired Williams′ jersey #32 in December 2018. Honors * Jersey #32 retired by Pyrintö *3x Korisliiga (2010–2011, 2014) *Finnish Cup The Finnish Cup ( fi, Suomen cup; sv, Finlands cup) is Finland's main national cup competition in football. This yearly competition is open for all member clubs of the FA of Finland and has been played since 1955. The winner qualifies for the ... (2013) *2x Finnish League MVP (2001, 2011) *3x Finnish Finals MVP (2010–2011, 2014) References External links Profileat Eurobasket.com Profileat Finnish Basketball Association 1973 births Living people Alba Fehérvár players American expatriate basketball people in Finland American expatriate basketbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Smith (basketball Player)
Stephen, Steve, Stevie, or Steven Smith may refer to: Academics * Steve Smith (political scientist) (born 1952), British international relations theorist and senior university manager *Stephen Smith (journalist) (born 1956), American journalist, anthropologist, biographer, editor, historian, and writer * Stephen Smith (surgeon) (1823–1922), U.S. researcher in public health *Stephen Alexander Smith, Canadian legal scholar, writer, professor of law at McGill University *Steven B. Smith (professor) (born 1951), Yale professor *Stephen C. Smith (economist) (born 1955), George Washington University professor * Stephen C. Smith (sociologist) (born 1968), Brigham Young University-Idaho professor *Steven S. Smith (born 1953), Washington University professor *Stephen Edward Smith (1927–1990), professor and legal scholar in New Zealand *Stephen D. Smith (born 1967), British Holocaust specialist *Stephen J Smith (physiologist), professor of physiology at the Stanford University School of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HL Coleman
HL may refer to: In arts and entertainment * ''Half-Life'' (series), a video game series by Valve ** ''Half-Life'' (video game), the first game in that series * ''Horseland'', an online community and virtual game * ''Harry Styles'' and ''Louis Tomlinson'', part of the popular boyband '' One Direction'' known as HL when referred to together Businesses * Hangars Liquides, an electronic music label * Hargreaves Lansdown, a British investment company * Hitachi-LG Data Storage, an optical disc drive manufacturer * Hogan Lovells, an international law firm * Houlihan Lokey, an international investment bank * Hovedstadens Lokalbaner, a Danish local railway company In linguistics * , a Latin-script digraph * Reduction of /hl/ to /l/ in Old/Middle English * Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative, a sound sometimes represented as Science, technology, and mathematics * HL gas, a mixture of sulfur mustard and lewisite * Half-life, in nuclear physics * Hectolitre, a unit of volu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Blair (basketball)
Larry Blair may refer to: *Larry Blair (basketball) player in 2006–07 NCAA Division I men's basketball season *Larry Blair (surfer) in Billabong Pipeline Masters *Larry Blair (businessman), co-founder of Kalpana (company), Kalpana See also *Lawrence Blair (born 1942), British anthropologist, author, explorer and filmmaker *Lawrence Blair (bishop) (1868–1925), English bishop {{hndis, Blair, Larry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Componenta
A team is a group of individuals (human or non-human) working together to achieve their goal. As defined by Professor Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management, " team is a group of people who are interdependent with respect to information, resources, knowledge and skills and who seek to combine their efforts to achieve a common goal". A group does not necessarily constitute a team. Teams normally have members with complementary skills and generate synergy through a coordinated effort which allows each member to maximize their strengths and minimize their weaknesses. Naresh Jain (2009) claims: Team members need to learn how to help one another, help other team members realize their true potential, and create an environment that allows everyone to go beyond their limitations. While academic research on teams and teamwork has grown consistently and has shown a sharp increase over the past recent 40 years, the societal diffusion of teams and teamwork actually follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forssan Koripojat
The Korisliiga is the top-tier professional basketball league in Finland, comprising the top 12 teams of the country. In its current format, each team plays all other teams two times in the regular season, once at home and once away, for a total of 22 regular season games. The top six teams advances continues to upper stage and the bottom six teams plays lower stage after 22 games, 5 games at home and 5 games at away versus all other teams in stage. The best two teams from lower group joins to playoffs with upper group teams. Playoffs are played best of seven format, except the quarter-finals which are played best of 5 format. Pantterit holds the record for the most league titles won, with 14. The top level Finnish league for women is the Naisten Korisliiga. Logos Korisliiga logo.png, The official Korisliiga logo used until the 2015–16 season Teams Current teams From 2000s, Korisliiga in timeline Title holders * 1938-39 Ylioppilaskoripalloilijat * 1939-40 Eiran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lappeenrannan NMKY
Lappeenrannan NMKY (also known as LrNMKY for short or as Team Lappeenranta in European competitions) is a basketball club based in a city of Lappeenranta, Finland. It was formed in 1951 as a Young Men's Christian Association (NMKY in Finnish) and has won two Finnish Championships (2005, 2006) and two Finnish Cups (2005, 2006). Team Lappeenranta participated in Fiba EuroCup challenge in 2005/2006 finishing in semi-finals. In 2007/2008 season team is willing to make another run in Europe, this time in FIBA EuroCup. After the 2013–14 season, NMKY left the Korisliiga because of financial problems. Honours *Korisliiga **Winners (2): 2005, 2006 *Finnish Cup The Finnish Cup ( fi, Suomen cup; sv, Finlands cup) is Finland's main national cup competition in football. This yearly competition is open for all member clubs of the FA of Finland and has been played since 1955. The winner qualifies for the ... **Winners (4): 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Season by season References Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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