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2016–17 Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament
The 2016–17 Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament, also called Adidas Next Generation Tournament by sponsorship reasons, is the 15th edition of the international junior basketball tournament organized by the Euroleague Basketball Company. As in past years, 32 teams joined the first stage, which are played in four qualifying tournaments between January and February 2017. Qualifying tournaments Torneig de Bàsquet Junior Ciutat de L'Hospitalet The Torneig de Bàsquet Junior Ciutat de L'Hospitalet was played between 6 and 8 January 2017. Group A Group B Semifinals Classification games Final Kaunas Tournament The Kaunas Tournament was played between 12 and 14 January 2017. Group A Group B Classification games Final Coín Tournament The Coín Tournament was played between 10 and 12 February 2017. Group A Group B Classification games Final Belgrade Tournament The Belgrade Tournament was played between 24 and 26 February 2017. Group A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015–16 Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament
The 2015–16 Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament, also called Adidas Next Generation Tournament by sponsorship reasons, is the 14th edition of the international junior basketball tournament organized by the Euroleague Basketball Company. As in past years, 32 teams joined the first stage, which are played in four qualifying tournaments between December 2015 and February 2016. The four group winners, Real Madrid as reigning champions and three wildcarded teams will join the Final Tournament, that will be played in Berlin on May 12–15. Qualifying tournaments Torneo Città di Roma The Torneo Città di Roma was played on December 27 to 29, 2015.2015-16 ADIDAS NEXT GENERATION TOURNAMENT schedules Adidas NGT, 26 November 2015 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luka Šamanić
Luka Šamanić (born 9 January 2000) is a Croatian professional basketball player for Saski Baskonia of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. A power forward, he was drafted 19th overall by the San Antonio Spurs in the 2019 NBA draft. A native of Zagreb, Šamanić started his youth career with the KK Zagreb, eponymous basketball club. In 2016, at age 16, he moved to Barcelona, Spain, where he joined the FC Barcelona Bàsquet, FC Barcelona's FC Barcelona Bàsquet B, reserve team in the Spanish LEB Oro, second-tier league. Šamanić has represented Croatia men's national basketball team, Croatia multiple times in FIBA events, leading his team to a gold medal at the FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship#Division B, FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship Division B in 2017, while earning most valuable player honors. Early life Šamanić was born in Zagreb, Croatia. His father, Marko Šamanić, played basketball professionally for 19 years, including in the EuroLeague, with Slovenian club ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canarias Basketball Academy
Canarias Basketball Academy is a basketball institute based in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Its senior team currently plays in the Spanish Basketball Federation with their U18 and U16 teams. The junior team usually participates in the Euroleague Basketball Nike International Junior Tournament. It also takes part in different tournaments in the USA such as the MaxPreps Tournament, the Hoop Group Under Armour and the Adidas Nations. History Founded in 2007, the Canarias Basketball Academy was created with the aim of developing basketball players from all the world. Every year over 30 nationalities are represented in the academy, and it has grown from 15 players in 2007 to more than 100 in 2015. Canarias Basketball Academy's founder and Director, Rob Orellana, saw that an academy as CBA in Europe could provide a key stepping stone for young players wanting to play college basketball in the United States. Since then Orellana has built a unique project in Europe that has sent mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PBC CSKA Moscow
PBC CSKA Moscow () is a Russian professional basketball team based in Moscow, Russia. The club is a member of the VTB United League, and was a member of the EuroLeague. On February 28, 2022, EuroLeague Basketball suspended all Russian teams because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. CSKA won two titles between 2006 and 2008, as well as between 2016 and 2019, in Europe's principal club competition, the EuroLeague, making the final in all seasons these years, and in total has advanced to the EuroLeague Final Four 18 times in the 21st century. CSKA is dominating in VTB United League, winning all but two titles to date. With 8 EuroLeague championships, 1 NEBL championship, 51 home league championships, 7 home cups, 1 home Supercup and 10 VTB United League titles in total, CSKA is the most successful basketball team in Russia (former Soviet Union), and is also one of the most successful basketball teams in Europe. In EuroLeague in 2006 CSKA won its first title in a long time, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BC Žalgiris
Basketball Club Žalgiris () commonly known as BC Žalgiris, is a professional basketball club based in Kaunas, Lithuania. They compete domestically in the Lietuvos krepšinio lyga, Lithuanian Basketball League (''Lietuvos krepšinio lyga'') and internationally as a long-term licensed EuroLeague team. Since the 2011–12 season, Žalgiris has played its home games in Žalgiris Arena in the Centras Eldership, New Town district of Kaunas. Žalgiris is the most decorated Basketball in Lithuania, basketball club in the country, having won 24 Lithuanian Basketball League championships, five USSR Premier Basketball League, Soviet Union National League championships (the second most behind PBC CSKA Moscow, CSKA Moscow), and one EuroLeague championship. Many Basketball in Lithuania, Lithuanian basketball legends have played for Žalgiris throughout the club's history, including Arvydas Sabonis, Modestas Paulauskas, and Šarūnas Jasikevičius. Eight of the fifteen Lithuanian basketball p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skyliners Frankfurt
The Skyliners Frankfurt, formerly known as Fraport Skyliners for sponsorship reasons, are a professional basketball club based in Frankfurt, Germany. Their home arena is Ballsporthalle. The club has played in the Basketball Bundesliga since 1999. Its greatest accomplishments were the German Cup competition title in 2000, the German national championship in 2004 and the FIBA Europe Cup in 2016. Its most famous player has been Pascal Roller, who was selected as Basketball Bundesliga All-Star seven times and played 122 games for the German national basketball team. Roller played ten seasons for the Frankfurt Skyliners until his retirement in 2011. Besides Roller, numerous other players of the German national team played multiple seasons for the Skyliners. A notable non-German basketball player is Mario Kasun, who played for the Skyliners when he was discovered and eventually drafted by the NBA team Orlando Magic in 2002. History The foundation In 1999, Gunnar Woebke, then ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BC Lietuvos Rytas
Basketball Club Rytas, commonly referred to as Rytas Vilnius, is a professional basketball club based in Vilnius, Lithuania. The club competes in the Lietuvos krepšinio lyga, Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL), the top tier of Basketball in Lithuania, Lithuanian basketball, and internationally in the Basketball Champions League (BCL) since 2020. The club plays its home matches in the 2,741-capacity Active Vilnius Arena, with select domestic and all international matches played at the 10,000-capacity Twinsbet Arena. Nicknamed ''juodai baltai raudoni'' (The Black White Reds), Rytas are one of the most successful basketball clubs in Lithuania. Domestically, the club has won 7 league titles, 3 LKF Cup, LKF Cups and 2 King Mindaugas Cup, King Mindaugas Cups. Internationally, Rytas have won 2 EuroCup Basketball, EuroCup titles and 3 Baltic Basketball League (BBL) titles. The club's affiliate teams, Perlas (basketball club), Rytas-2 and Rytas-MRU, are used for development of young pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaunas
Kaunas (; ) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius, the fourth largest List of cities in the Baltic states by population, city in the Baltic States and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the largest city and the centre of a in the Duchy of Trakai of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Trakai Voivodeship, Trakai Palatinate since 1413. In the Russian Empire, it was the capital of the Kovno Governorate, Kaunas Governorate from 1843 to 1915. During the interwar period, it served as the temporary capital of Lithuania, when Vilnius was Polish–Lithuanian War, seized and controlled by Second Polish Republic, Poland between 1920 and 1939. During that period Kaunas was celebrated for its rich cultural and academic life, fashion, construction of countless Art Deco and Lithuanian National Revival architectural-style buildings as well as popular furniture, interior design of the time, and a widespread café culture. The city in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Barros (basketball)
Pedro Barros (born 15 March 1995), known as Pedrinho Barros, is a Brazilian skateboarder who is specialized in Bowl and Park Skateboarding. He won the silver medal in the inaugural Olympic men's park skateboarding event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Pedro is also an entrepreneur, having his own beer company (LayBack) and his fashion and lifestyle brand, Privê (Privet, in Portuguese). Career His skateboarding career started in 2008. In 2008, Barros won the X Games Skateboarding Vert amateur event; in 2009, he ended up in third place in the same event. These two appearances were Pedro's kick-start into a successful X Games career. Furthermore, he got second at the Red-Bull-Crossover in 2009 where he defeated his big idol Sandro Dias for the first time. In 2010, Barros won X Games gold in Park as a rookie after a battle against Andy Macdonald. Pedro was the first rookie to win skateboard gold since Ryan Sheckler won gold in Park in 2003. He also participated in the X ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric González (basketball)
Eric Gonzalez-Diaz (born September 5, 1986 in San Juan de la Rambla, Canary Islands) is a former professional baseball player. He was drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 24th round of the 2008 MLB Draft out of the University of South Alabama. He had previously attended Cochise Community College in Douglas, Arizona. After playing in the Padres system through 2010 he was released and signed with the Lake Erie Crushers of the Frontier League, an independent league. He remained with independent teams for the remainder of his professional career, last playing for the Camden Riversharks of the Atlantic League and the Kansas City T-Bones of the American Association in 2013. He played for the Spain national baseball team in the 2013 World Baseball Classic The 2013 World Baseball Classic (WBC) was an international professional baseball competition, held from March 2 to 19, 2013. This was the third iteration of the WBC, following the two previous tournaments, held in 2006 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
