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2014 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship
The 2014 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship was the 28th edition of the European Under-16 Basketball Championship. 16 teams participated in the competition, held in the four Latvian cities of Ogre, Grobiņa, Liepāja and Riga, from 20 to 30 August 2014. Spain were the defending champions. Participating teams * (Runners-up, 2013 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship Division B) * * (Winners, 2013 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship Division B) * (3rd place, 2013 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship Division B) * * * * * * * * * * * * First round The first-round groups draw took place on 1 December 2013 in Freising, Germany. In this round, sixteen teams are allocated in four groups of four teams each. The top three teams of each group will advance to the Second Round. The last teams will play in the Classification Group G first, then in the 9th – 16th place playoffs. Group A ---- ---- ---- Group B ---- ---- ---- Group C ---- ---- ---- Group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latvia
Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the Baltic states; and is bordered by Estonia to the north, Lithuania to the south, Russia to the east, Belarus to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Sweden to the west. Latvia covers an area of , with a population of 1.9 million. The country has a temperate seasonal climate. Its capital and largest city is Riga. Latvians belong to the ethno-linguistic group of the Balts; and speak Latvian, one of the only two surviving Baltic languages. Russians are the most prominent minority in the country, at almost a quarter of the population. After centuries of Teutonic, Swedish, Polish-Lithuanian and Russian rule, which was mainly executed by the local Baltic German aristocracy, the independent R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ömer Yurtseven
Ömer Faruk Yurtseven (born June 19, 1998) is a Turkish professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the NC State Wolfpack and the Georgetown Hoyas. Listed at and , he plays the center position. Early life and career He was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan to Turkish parents and played basketball in Turkey and for the Turkish youth national team. Yurtseven was selected to the Best Five of the 2014 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship. He was also invited to play at the Jordan Brand Classic International Game. On March 20, 2015, he made his EuroLeague debut, in a game against Emporio Armani Milano, scoring 2 points, in 1 minute and 4 seconds of playing time. On October 5, 2015, he played against the Brooklyn Nets, at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, New York. He had 8 points and 7 rebounds, with one block, in 15 minutes and 18 seconds of playing time, in his team's win over the Nets. He would bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kostja Mushidi
Kostja Kalonda Didier Mushidi (born June 18, 1998) is a German professional basketball player for Mitteldeutscher BC of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL). Born in Belgium to a Belgian mother and a Russian father, Mushidi moved to Germany with his family at the age of 2. Mushidi stands tall and plays the shooting guard position. Career A product of ART Düsseldorf, Mushidi later transferred to the Dragons Rhöndorf, where he played in the youth system and strengthened Team Rhöndorf/Bonn's JBBL (under-16 Bundesliga) side starting with the 2012-13 season. After moving to the organization's under 19 side, Mushidi averaged 20.2 points, 7.2 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.6 steals per game in the 2014-15 season. He had made his first appearances on Rhoendorf's men's team in Germany's third division during the 2013-14 campaign. In August 2015, Mushidi inked a two-year deal with French powerhouse Strasbourg IG. He played a total of six minutes for SIG's men's team in the 2015–16 LNB Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Olinde
Louis Franklin Olinde (born March 19, 1998) is a German professional basketball player for Alba Berlin of the German Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) and the EuroLeague. Standing at 205 cm (6 ft 9 in), Olinde plays at both the small forward and power forward positions. His father Wilbert Olinde won the 1975 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament with UCLA and took his game to Germany following his collegiate career. Career Olinde's career began in the youth ranks of BC Hamburg. He joined the Piraten Hamburg organization in 2011 to compete in the JBBL, Germany's under 16 division. In 2014, he made the Piraten under 19 side which plays in the NBBL, Germany's highest youth league. Olinde earned a spot on the roster of SC Rist Wedel, a member of Germany's third-tier men's league ProB, for the 2014–15 season, but had to wait until the following campaign to see playing time. In accordance with an agreement of cooperation between SC Rist Wedel and Pro A side Hamburg Towe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaiah Hartenstein
Isaiah Hartenstein (born May 5, 1998) is a German-American professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Early life Born in Eugene, Oregon, Hartenstein is the son of Florian, a German basketball coach and former professional basketball player of Afro-German descent. His mother is American. His parents met in the United States when his father attended the University of Oregon. In 2008, Hartenstein and his family moved to Germany, where his father was playing professionally. Professional career Artland Dragons (2015–2016) Hartenstein joined the MTV Gießen youth ranks and continued his career at the youth teams of QTSV Quakenbrück/ Artland Dragons, after his father had signed to play with the Artland Dragons in 2009. In the 2013–14 season, Hartenstein led the Artland Dragons' junior team to a German championship in the Under-16 Bundesliga JBBL, while being named Most Valuable Player. He averaged 20.9 points, 12.1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grobiņa Sport Hall
Grobiņa (; german: Grobin) is a town in South Kurzeme Municipality in the Courland Courland (; lv, Kurzeme; liv, Kurāmō; German and Scandinavian languages: ''Kurland''; la, Curonia/; russian: Курляндия; Estonian: ''Kuramaa''; lt, Kuršas; pl, Kurlandia) is one of the Historical Latvian Lands in western Latvia. ... region of Latvia, eleven kilometers east of Liepāja. It was founded by the Teutonic Order, Teutonic Knights in the 13th century. Some ruins of their Grobina castle are still visible. The town was given its charter in 1695. During the Early Middle Ages, Grobiņa (or Grobin) was the most important political centre on the territory of Latvia. There was a centre of Scandinavian settlement on the Baltic Sea, comparable in many ways to Hedeby and Birka but probably predating them both. About 3,000 surviving burial mounds contain the most impressive remains of the Vendel Age in Northern Europe. Scandinavian settlement The settlement at Grobin was excav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
