CSA Steaua București (Basketball)
Steaua București (Basketball) is the basketball section of CSA Steaua București sport club, based in Bucharest, Romania. The club competes in Liga Națională, the top tier of Romanian basketball. Being part of one of Romania's biggest sports clubs, famous especially for its football team, Steaua's basketball club enjoyed plenty of success over the years, but also disappointments. Many of the last few years have been spent in the second division, including the previous season. In 2008, BC Steaua merged with BC Targoviste, thus changing its name again, this time to , and taking over Târgoviște's place in the Liga Națională. In 2013, the team merged with CSM Bucharest and became . History After the Romanian Revolution, Baschet Club Steaua București was the first basketball club in Romania to turn private. However, after only a few years it went bankrupt, and CSA Steaua operated only a youth club for basketball, under the name of Clubul Sportiv Școlar Steaua București. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Liga Națională (men's Basketball)
The Liga Națională Baschet de Masculin (LNBM) () is the top-tier professional basketball league of Romania. Founded in 1950, the winner of the league is crowned the Romanian national champion. Currently, the league consists of 24 teams playing in three different divisions. The most successful club in the league's history is Dinamo București, who has won a record 22 titles. The clubs from the Liga Națională also participate in the European competitions, as they can qualify for the Basketball Champions League or the FIBA Europe Cup based on their performance in the national league and cup competition. History The championship was founded in 1950. The most successful club is Dinamo București with 22 titles, followed closely by Steaua București with 21. In recent years Asesoft Ploieşti is the best team in the country, winning the championship seven times in a row from 2004 to 2010 and again in 2012–2014. Asesoft is the only Romanian team who won a European title, namely the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2014–15 Liga Națională (men's Basketball)
The 2014–15 Liga Națională season was the 65th season of the Liga Națională, the highest professional basketball league in Romania. The first half of the season consisted of 13 teams and 156-game regular season games (24 games for each of the 13 teams) beginning on 1 October 2014 and ended on 28 March 2015, just before the play-offs. Teams for 2014–15 season Personnel and sponsorship Regular season Play-offs Awards * Finals MVP : Vladimir Tica – CSU Asesoft Ploiești References External linksOfficial site of the Romanian basketball federation Halfcourt.info (Romanian and English) Numaibaschet.ro (Romanian) [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nicolae Pirsu
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Nicolae may refer to: * Nicolae (name), a Romanian name * ''Nicolae'' (novel), a 1997 novel See also *Nicolai (other) *Nicolao Nicolao is an Italian given name and a surname. It may refer to the following: Given name *Nicolao Civitali (1482 - after 1560), Italian sculptor and architect *Nicolao Colletti (18th century), Italian mathematician *Nicolao Dorati (c. 1513 – 159 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mircea Câmpeanu
Mircea is a Romanian masculine given name, a form of the South Slavic name Mirče (Мирче) that derives from the Slavic word ''mir'', meaning 'peace'. It may refer to: People Princes of Wallachia * Mircea I of Wallachia (1355–1418), also known as Mircea the Elder * Mircea II of Wallachia (1428–1447), grandson of Mircea I * Mircea III Dracul, Voivode (Prince) of Wallachia in 1510 * Mircea the Shepherd (died 1559), son of Radu cel Mare * Alexander II Mircea, Voivode of Wallachia from 1568 to 1574 and 1574 to 1577 * Prince Mircea of Romania (1913–1916) Others * Mircea Albulescu, professional name of Iorgu Constantin Albulescu (1934–2016), Romanian actor, university professor, journalist, poet and writer * Mircea Badea (born 1974), Romanian political satirist, television host, media critic, radio personality and occasional actor * Mircea Baniciu (born 1949), Romanian musician, singer and songwriter * Mircea Brînzea (born 1986), Romanian aerobic gymnast *Mirce ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mihai Nedef
Mihai Nedef (November 8, 1931 – 10 June 2017) was a Romanian basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born in Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of .... He was part of the Romanian basketball team, which was eliminated in the first round of the 1952 tournament. He played both matches. He died on 10 June 2017.Mihai Nedef's obituary [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vasile Popescu
Vasile Popescu (May 1, 1925 in Bucharest – 2003) was a Romanian basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin .... He was part of the Romanian basketball team, which was eliminated in the first round of the 1952 tournament. He played both matches. References 1925 births 2003 deaths Basketball players at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic basketball players for Romania Romanian men's basketball players Basketball players from Bucharest {{Romania-basketball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Constantin Herold
Constantin Herold (4 February 1912 – 28 August 1984) was a Romanian multi-sport athlete that practiced through his career 14 sports. He was mostly known for his activity in basketball, where he was a player and coach. On 17 June 2005, he received post-mortem the Honorary Citizen of Moreni title. Early life Constantin Herold was born in Moreni from a family of six children. He had an attraction for sport while being a pre-school child, playing football at the M.A.T.I.L.U.S. sports association. At the age of 10, he won a children athletics competition in Moreni, being first at all five disciplines ( shot put, long jump, high jump, sprint run and long-distance running). Later he moved in Ploiești at the "Saints Peter and Pavel" High School where he continued exercising athletics and football, also starting to participate at gymnastics disciplines. In 1926 he moved to Brașov, where he attended the Ioan Meșotă and Andrei Șaguna High Schools and where he continued to dev ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ronnie Harrell
Ronnie Harrell Jr. (born March 11, 1996) is an American basketball player for Ironi Ness Ziona of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He plays the guard and forward positions. He played college basketball for Creighton University and the University of Denver. Early life His parents are Ronnie and Shawn Harrell, and Tiffany Peterson, and he has eight siblings. Harrell is a cousin of former NBA guard and current coach Chauncey Billups. His nickname is "Slim". His hometown is Denver, Colorado. Growing up, he was a Denver Nuggets ball boy. He is 6" 7" (201 cm), and weighs 200 pounds (91 kg). High school career Harrell attended Denver East High School, where he played for the basketball team. He was 5' 8" as a high school freshman, but grew seven inches that summer, then grew another three inches after his sophomore year. As a junior, he averaged 13 points, 7.3 rebounds, and 2.1 steals per game. As a senior, Harrell averaged 16.5 points, 8.0 rebounds, and 2.3 assists per game. H ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2018–19 FIBA Europe Cup
The 2018–19 FIBA Europe Cup was the fourth season of the FIBA Europe Cup, a European professional basketball competition for clubs, that was launched by FIBA. The competition began on 20 September 2018, with the qualifying rounds, and concluded on 1 May 2019. Dinamo Sassari won its first European title after beating s.Oliver Würzburg in the 2019 FIBA Europe Cup Finals. Team allocation Teams The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round: *1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.: League position after eventual Playoffs *CL: Transferred from Champions League **RS: Fifth-placed and sixth-placed teams from regular season **QR: Losers from qualifying rounds Round and draw dates The draw will take place on the 31 July 2018 in the FIBA headquarters in Munich, Germany. The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at the FIBA headquarters in Munich, Germany, unless stated otherwise): Qualifying rounds The draw for the qualifying roun ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2018–19 Liga Națională (men's Basketball)
The 2018–19 Liga Națională season will be the 69th season of the Liga Națională, the highest professional basketball league in Romania. This will be the first season under a new format, which increases the number of teams to 22. CSM U Oradea are the defending champions. Competition format The Romanian Basketball Federation agreed a change in the competition format for the 2018–19 season: * 22 teams (divided into 3 value groups: A, B and C) played the regular season, consisting in a double-legged round robin format. ** Group A consist of the top 8 ranked teams from the 2017–18 Liga Națională. ** Group B consist of top 4 ranked teams from the 2017–18 Liga I. ** Group C consist of the other teams that played in the 2017–18 Liga Națională, 2017–18 Liga I or newly formed teams (which respect the financial and infrastructure criteria), but which not have the right to advance in this season to the final stages of the championship. * At the end of the regular season ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2017–18 FIBA Europe Cup
The 2017–18 FIBA Europe Cup was the third season of the FIBA Europe Cup, a European professional basketball competition for clubs that was launched by FIBA. The competition began on 20 September 2017, with the qualifying rounds, and concluded with the second leg of the final on 2 May 2018. Umana Reyer Venezia won its first European competition, after defeating Sidigas Scandone in the all-Italian Finals. Format changes For the 2017–18 season, the FIBA Europe Cup was reduced to 32 teams in the regular season. This included eight groups of four teams divided into two conferences and the two top teams from each regular season group would advance to the second round of four groups of four teams followed by the two-legged play-offs. 19 out of 22 teams were dropped from Champions League qualifying rounds while 10 teams come (with additional 3 lucky losers team) from the qualifying rounds that were implemented. Eligibility of players FIBA agreed to adopt eligibility rules, forcing th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2017–18 Liga Națională (men's Basketball)
The 2017–18 Liga Națională season was the 68th season of the Liga Națională, the highest professional basketball league in Romania. U-BT Cluj-Napoca were the defending champion. Competition format The competition format will be the same as in the previous season. * 12 teams played the regular season, consisting in a double-legged round robin format. * At the end of the regular season, teams are split into two groups, one of them composed by the first six teams and the other one by the rest. In this second stage all points of the regular season are counted and the teams will face each other from its group twice. * All teams from the group from 1st to 6th and the two first qualified teams from the bottom group will join the playoffs. In this knockout stage, quarterfinals and semifinals will be played with a best-of-three-games format and the final with a best-of-five one. Teams Timba Timișoara and Politehnica Iași promoted from the last Liga I. There were not any relegat ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |