West Midlands Basketball League

PARIS (Pro A) - Laurent Sciarra rolled back the years over the Christmas and New Year’s holiday with an MVP performance in the seventh edition of the French Pro A All-Star Game at Bercy. Veteran point guard Sciarra, a member of France's silver-medal winning side at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, had 25 points, including a perfect six-of-six showing ...

SAN JUAN (FIBA Americas Championship) - Puerto Rico are keen to add Eldo Caserta's Guillermo Diaz to their squad for this year's FIBA Americas Championship. Diaz, 23, has been a huge hit in Italy's Lega A and the executive director of the Puerto Rican national team, Agustin Diaz, confirmed to El Nuevo Dia: "We are interested in his ...

GRAN CANARIA (ACB) - Canada international Carl English earned MVP of the Week honors in the ACB after firing Kalise Gran Canaria to a big victory over CB Murcia. English, who will play a big role for the Canadians at the FIBA Americas Championship later this year, buried four three-balls on his way to a game-high 30 points in Gran Canaria's 87-64 victory ...

MADRID (2014 FIBA World Championship) - Ricky Rubio, an 'absolute beginner' in the Spanish Senior National Team last summer, became in Beijing 2008 the youngest basketball player (18 years old) in history to have ever won an Olympic medal. Rubio, a current true reference in Spanish basketball, will be almost 24 years of age when the 2014 FIBA World ...

AMSTERDAM (Haarlem Basketball Week) - Minas Tenis Clubé of Brazil defeated Capitanes de Arecibo 69-66 on the opening day of the Haarlem Basketball Week in Amsterdam. Joe Shipp had 21 points for Minas with Leandro Da Cruz Silva pouring in 14. Guard Facundo Sucatzky also had a terrific game with nine points, seven rebounds and seven assists and ...

MADRID (ACB) - Real Madrid and DKV Joventut have bolstered their frontcourts before the Christmas break. With both sides challenging for honors in the Euroleague and the ACB, Madrid have signed former CSKA Moscow center Tomas Van den Spiegel of Belgium while DKV have brought back French pivot Jerome Moiso – a member of their ULEB Cup and Copa del ...

BELGRADE (Humanitarian Game) - A glittering array of talent will be on show on Wednesday when Serbia celebrates 85 years of basketball in the country with a game between its domestic-based stars against a squad of foreign-based players. The contest will also mark the KSS’s 60th anniversary. The game between "Our ours" and "Our ...

PERU (Olympic Solidarity Basketball Coaching Clinic) - The Olympic Solidarity Basketball Coaching Clinic was held from the 5 - 11 June 2006. The last clinic was held six months prior in December 2005. The FIBA expert was Carme Lluveras I Puig. Support from the NOC and NBF The clinic was organized by the association of coaches of Peru and had 28 ...

SOUSSE (FIBA Africa Champions Cup) - Defending champion, Primeiro de Agosto retain the trophy today after beating Etoile du Sahel of Tunisia 57 – 54 in the grand final of the 23rd Africa Champions Cup for men played in Sousse, Tunisia. Primeiro won the first quarter (15 – 11) but both teams ended the second 10 – 10 and Primeiro led 25 – 21 ...

BOSTON (NBA) - Defending champions Boston and fellow Eastern Conference high-fliers Cleveland kept the momentum going with big wins on Sunday. Rajon Rondo had 26 points to fire the Boston Celtics to their 26th victory in 28 games with a 124-105 triumph over the New York Knicks. The Knicks slumped to 11-16 with the setback. Team ...

SARAJEVO (Adriatic League) - Bosna ASA BHT were on the verge of a major upset in the Adriatic League but defending champions Partizan Belgrade prevailed on the road 72-68. Partizan outscored Bosna 30-17 over the final 10 minutes for their 12th triumph victory in 13 games. Stephane Lasme had 21 points for Partizan and while Serbia ...

BEIJING (CBA) - Xinjiang have been lording it over the competition this season but they slipped up against Dongguan. Michael Harris erupted for 38 points and also pulled down 21 rebounds as Dongguan prevailed 96-90 in their clash. Zhang Kai was also in fine fettle, scoring 24 points and hauling in nine boards. Xinjiang bounced back on Sunday with ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Campeonato Nacional Feminino) - Ourinhos won 71-66 at Americana to seal a 3-1 triumph in the best-of-five play-off finals showdown in the Brazil women’s championship. With the game knotted at 36-36 at half-time, Ourinhos outscored Americana 19-12 in the third quarter to get their noses in front and held on to capture their fifth ...

BARCELONA (ACB) - Real Madrid claimed the scalp of defending Euroleague champions CSKA Moscow in midweek but back in Spain on Saturday they crashed to a heavy defeat at Regal Barcelona. Xavier Pascual's Barca followed up their 87-61 destruction of Montepaschi Siena in the Euroleague at Barcelona by hammering Real 87-67 at the Palau Blaugrana. Victor ...

ROME (Euroleague) - Sani Becirovic has been the main man for Lottomatica Roma on a lot of occasions this season and that was the case on Thursday as the Slovenia national team superstar led the Italian outfit to victory and into the Euroleague Top 16. Becirovic had 23 points, five assists and seven rebounds as Roma won 74-69 in overtime at home over ...

PORTLAND (NBA) – Brandon Roy exploded for 52 points as Portland beat Phoenix 124-119 on Thursday while Orlando sent out a loud message about their championship aspirations with a 90-78 home triumph over San Antonio. Portland, a team that has Spain internationals Rudy Fernandez and Sergio Rodriguez and emerging French star Nicolas Batum, got a big ...

CANBERRA (Basketball Australia) - Basketball Australia today announced that interim CEO, Scott Derwin had notified the board he would not be applying for the permanent role. Mr David Thodey, interim chairman of the Board of Basketball stated that while the board was sorry to receive Derwin's notice, it welcomed his agreement to remain in the interim ...

BUENOS AIRES (CABB) - Horacio Muratore has drawn the curtain on his long career as president of Argentina's Basketball Federation with German Vaccaro now taking over. Vaccaro, who served as vice president under Muratore, will be in charge of the CABB through 2012 while Muratore will now become honorary president. With Muratore guiding the federation, ...

MAR DEL PLATA (FIBA Americas League) - Uruguayan powerhouse Bigua booked a place in the FIBA Americas League Final Four on Thursday night with an 84-77 overtime triumph over defending champions and Group B hosts Peñarol. Bigua jumped out to a 37-25 advantage and still led 49-42 at three-quarter time but watched as Sergio Hernandez's team clawed ...

BEIJING (CBA) - Xinjiang won for the 13th time in 14 games at the start of the Chinese CBA with a 109-95 victory over Shaanxi. Juan Mendez led the way for table-toppers Xinjiang with 25 points while Xu Guochong poured in 19 and Myron Allen added 18 while also grabbing eight rebounds, dishing out seven assists and coming up with five steals. Guangdong ...