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Ivan Aska
Ivan Aska (born June 26, 1990) is a U.S. Virgin Islander-Puerto Rican professional basketball player for the New Taipei CTBC DEA of the Taiwan Professional Basketball League (TPBL). He has also represented the senior men's U.S. Virgin Islands national basketball team. He played college basketball for Murray State's Racers. He is a tall power forward- center. High school Aska played high school basketball at Boyd H. Anderson High School, in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida. College career Aska played college basketball at Murray State University, with the Murray State Racers, from 2008 to 2012. He was named the Ohio Valley Conference Freshman of the Year in 2009, and second-team All-Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) in 2012. As a senior, Aska averaged 10.6 points and six rebounds per game. Professional career Aska signed with the German Basketball Bundesliga club ALBA Berlin, in 2015, but he left the club before playing in any official games with them. He joined the Greek Basket Leagu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Power Forward
The power forward (PF), also known as the four, is one of the five traditional Basketball positions, positions in a regulation basketball game. Traditionally, power forwards have played a role similar to center (basketball), centers and are typically the tallest or second tallest player on the court. During an offensive possession, the power forward typically plays with their backs toward the basket and are typically a "go-to" position in regard to scoring in the Post (basketball), post. In a pick and roll offense, the power forward typically sets a screen for a guard and "rolls" towards the basket to receive a pass (or "pops" towards the perimeter for an open shot). When on Defense (sport), defense, they typically position themselves under the basket in a zone defense or against the opposing power forward in man-to-man defense. The power forward position entails a variety of responsibilities, including rebound (basketball), rebounding, Screen (sports), screen setting, Block (bask ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seoul SK Knights
The Seoul SK Knights () is a professional basketball club in the Korean Basketball League. The club was originally founded by Jinro Group in 1997 as Cheongju Jinro McCass. Before the official launch of the basketball club, Jinro Group filed for bankruptcy due to the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and eventually sold the club to SK Telecom. Honours Domestic *Korean Basketball League championship :: Winners (3): 1999–2000, 2017–18, 2021–22 :: Runners-up (4): 2001–02, 2012–13, 2022–23, 2024–25 *Korean Basketball League regular season :: Winners (3): 2012–13, 2021–22, 2024–25 :: Runners-up (3): 1999–2000, 2001–02, 2017–18 *KBL Cup :: Winners: 2021 :: Runners-up: 2020 Continental *FIBA Asia Champions Cup :: Third place: 2018 * East Asia Super League :: Runners-up: 2019 References External links * Knights A knight is a person granted an honorary title of a knighthood by a head of state (including the pope) or representative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's Basket (basketball), hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a Backboard (basketball), backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A Field goal (basketball), field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the 3 point line, three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one, two or three one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (Overtime (sports), overtime) is mandated. Players advance the ball by boun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohio Valley Conference
The Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States. It participates in Division I of the NCAA; the conference's football programs compete in partnership with the Big South Conference in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS; formerly known as Division I-AA), the lower of two levels of Division I football competition. The OVC has 11 members, seven of which compete in football in the conference. History ''Primary source:'' The Ohio Valley Conference can trace its roots to 1941 when Murray State athletic director Roy Stewart, Eastern Kentucky athletic director Charles "Turkey" Hughes, and Western Kentucky public relations director Kelly Thompson first formulated the idea of establishing a regional athletics conference. The plan was put on hold due to World War II, but it was resurrected after the conclusion of the war. In 1948, the three schools joined with Louisville, Morehead State, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 FIBA CBC Championship
This page shows the results of the 2015 FIBA CBC Championship, which was held in the city of Road Town, British Virgin Islands The British Virgin Islands (BVI), officially the Virgin Islands, are a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, to the east of Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands, US Virgin Islands and north-west ... from June 15 to June 22, 2015. Squads Group stage Group A ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Group B ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Final round 5th-8th place classification bracket Medal bracket 5th-8th place classification playoffs ---- ---- Semifinals ---- ---- Final classification games Ninth place game ---- ---- Seventh place game ---- ---- Fifth place game ---- ---- Third place game ---- ---- Final ---- ---- Awards Final standings ReferencesFIBA Archive {{DEFAULTSORT:CBC FIBA CBC Championship 2014–15 in North American basketball 2015 in Briti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIBA CBC Championship
The CBC Championship or CaribeBasket is a FIBA-sponsored international basketball tournament where national teams from the Caribbean participate. These countries are members of the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC). The top three or four teams typically earn berths to the Centrobasket where they compete for spots in the FIBA AmeriCup, from which they can qualify for the FIBA Basketball World Cup or Summer Olympics. There are currently 24 Caribbean countries that may compete in this event. Celebration of the tournament typically is every two years. Puerto Rico ; abbreviated PR), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a Government of Puerto Rico, self-governing Caribbean Geography of Puerto Rico, archipelago and island organized as an Territories of the United States, unincorporated territo ... is traditionally the strongest team from this region winning Gold in 1985 with players like NBA hopeful Ramon Ramos and Ferdinand Martinez (MVP). They rarely compete a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Taipei CTBC DEA
The New Taipei CTBC DEA ( zh, 新北中信特攻) are a Taiwanese professional basketball team based in New Taipei City. They have competed in the Taiwan Professional Basketball League (TPBL) and play their home games at the Xinzhuang Gymnasium. The DEA became one of the six teams of the inaugural T1 League season, and one of the seven teams of the inaugural TPBL season. Franchise history The CTBC DEA announced their establishment on July 30, 2021, name "DEA" was inspired from the Drug Enforcement Administration, one of United States federal law enforcement agencies. On August 4, 2021, the CTBC DEA acquired 1st round pick from Kaohsiung Aquas. Later in the 2021 draft, they drafted Shih Hsin small forward Mohammad Al Bachir Gadiaga and Chien Hsin Tech shooting guard Hsieh Ya-Hsuan. Bachir lived in Taiwan since he was 8 years old, and he was also the second naturalization player of the Chinese Taipei men's national basketball team. On May 21, 2023, the New Taipei CTBC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urunday Universitario
Club Social y Deportivo Urunday Universitario is an Uruguayan sports club located in the Prado barrio of Montevideo Montevideo (, ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2023 census, the city proper has a population of 1,302,954 (about 37.2% of the country's total population) in an area of . M .... Its name comes from Astronium balansae. Its main sports include basketball, and their team currently plays in the Uruguay Metropolitan League. History It is the result of the union Club Atlético Urunday (Urunday Athletic Club) and Club Universitario del Uruguay (University Club of Uruguay) in 1978. In 1934, joins theLiga Universitaria de Deportes (League of University Sports), where to this day campaigning in the divisional A. In 1946 joins the Uruguayan Basketball Federation (FUBB). Current roster References {{reflist External links Official website Sport in Montevideo Prado, Montevi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Ahli Jeddah (basketball)
Al-Ahli Jeddah is a professional basketball club based in the city of Jeddah in the Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia that plays in the Saudi Premier League. They won the Premier League in 2006 and 2023. The home arena of Al-Ahli is the Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Sports Hall. In the 2023-24 season, Al-Ahli made their debut in the West Asia Super League (WASL). Honours Domestic * Saudi Basketball League ** Champions (1): 2023 ** The elite Championship : champions (1): 2006 *Kingdom League (3) *Western Region Championship (6) *First Class Cup (3) *Saudi Alnokhbah Cup (1) *Saudi Federation Cup (1) *Saudi Olympic Committee Cup (1) International Arab Club Basketball Championship The Arab Club Championship is an annual basketball tournament for Arab teams. The competition is organised by the Arab Basketball Confederation (ABC). Each season is typically held in October and is held in one venue. The tournament typically featu ... * ''Runners-up (1):'' 2007 References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Miguel Beermen
The San Miguel Beermen are a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). It is one of three PBA clubs owned by the San Miguel Corporation group of companies along with Barangay Ginebra San Miguel and Magnolia Chicken Timplados Hotshots. It is the most successful franchise in the history of the PBA and the only remaining original franchise in the league. The Beermen have the most titles with 29 and the most all-time victories with more than 1,200 wins. In addition, it has won the Grand Slam in and the Perpetual Jun Bernardino Trophy after winning three straight PBA Philippine Cups from 2015 to 2017. It is also the only team to have won at least one PBA title in each of the six numerical decades of the league's existence and was the first professional basketball team ever to come back from a 0–3 deficit to win a best-of-seven playoff series which they did during the 2015–16 Philippine Cup Finals. Beginnings San Miguel had a basketbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soles De Mexicali
The Soles de Mexicali (English: ''Mexicali Suns'') is a Mexican professional basketball team based in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, playing in the Northern Division of the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional (LNBP). The team was founded in 2005, and has established as one of Mexico's most successful basketball franchises. They currently play their home games in the Auditorio del Estado and are getting their home auditorium remodeled to match their recent title. After only two years of existence, the team won their first national championship against the Halcones de Xalapa. International tournaments The Soles have represented Mexico in some renowned and important international basketball competitions in such as the Harlem Week Basketball in the Netherlands. On December 4, 2007, Soles de Mexicali was one of the 16 teams to participate in the first annual FIBA Americas League in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico that ended on February 9, 2008. The Soles gave an impressiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Malvín
Club Malvín is a sports club from Montevideo, Uruguay, established on January 28, 1938, in the residential neighbourhood of Malvín. The club engages in several sports: futsal, tennis, and handball, but basketball is by far the most important. History Club Malvín first president was Alberto Nieto. In 1938, the foundation year, Malvín started its sports activity, playing in the Federal Basketball Championship of Fourth Division (organized by the Uruguayan Basketball Federation - Federacion Uruguaya de Basketball-), in the club's first court located in Amazonas street. The first headquarters of the club were located in the crossing of Río de la Plata and Orinoco streets. The second headquarters were ubicated in the crossing of Pilcomayo and Amazonas street. The third headquarters were located in the Orinoco and Amazonas streets. The fourth headquarters were ubicated in Michigan street, between Rambla and Orinoco. In this place, social events that the club organizes nowadays be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
