West Midlands Basketball League

View standings LOS ANGELES (NBA) - Pau Gasol erupted for a game-high 34 points as the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Chicago Bulls 116-109 on Tuesday. The Spain international was 14 of 21 from the floor and six of eight at the line as LA claimed their eighth win in nine games. The points haul was a season high for Gasol. Kobe Bryant contributed 21 and ...

SAN DIEGO (Olympics) - The basketball world lost a legend on Monday when former Team USA coach Pete Newell passed away at the age of 93. Tributes have been pouring in for Newell, the gold-medal winning coach of the Americans at the 1960 Olympics in Rome. Bill Walton, a former UCLA star and NBA center with Portland and later Boston who is now a ...

ASUNCION (ABASU) – Brazil basketball supremo Gerasime Bozikis has been elected president of the South American Basketball Association. Bozikis, the president of the Brazilian Confederation, was elected on Friday in Asuncion, Paraguay, and will hold the office until 2013. “It was a great honor to have been chosen by the presidents of the ...

View standings OKLAHOMA CITY (NBA) - Houston's Olympic stars Luis Scola of Argentina and Yao Ming of China led the way for the Rockets in a 100-89 win at Oklahoma City on Monday night. Yao poured in 19 points and pulled down 13 boards while Scola narrowly missed out on a double-double with a team-high 23 points and nine rebounds. The Rockets look as ...

LAGOS (14th FIBA Africa Champions Club for Women) - Nigeria women league champion, First Bank basketball club Tuesday jet out to Nairobi, Kenya aboard a Kenya Airways flight for the final round of the 14th FIBA Africa Champions Club for Women. The Nigerian side, champion in 2003 is optimistic of a good outing in Kenya. The team, which is made up of 12 ...

LAGOS (FIBA Africa Zone-3 Champions Club Qualifiers for Men) - Togolese champion, Swallows basketball club Monday won the third place game of the FIBA Africa Zone-3 Champions Cup qualifiers with a 84-58 points victory over ASPAC of Benin Republic. The Togolese side began the losers final on a slow pace losing the first quarter by 09-15 points but came ...

MILAN (FIP) – Dino Meneghin has been serving as commissioner of the Italian Basketball Federation (FIP) since September, when Fausto Maifredi made the surprise announcement that he was stepping down as president. Now Italy basketball legend Meneghin is ready to run for president when the election is held on February 7. The regional presidents of ...

TORONTO (NBA) - One of Toronto's biggest fears heading into the season would be the team's performance if Spain playmaker Jose Manuel Calderon wasn't able to play due to injury. The Raptors (5-4) showed on Sunday they could win at least one game without their point guard, beating the Miami Heat 107-96. Calderon, a silver-medal winner with Spain at this summer’s Olympics, missed Sunday’s game with what the team has described as a strained hamstring.

BUENOS AIRES (Liga Nacional) - The melee that followed Penarol's recent Mar Del Plata derby with Quilmes has led to severe punishment for both sides. Both club's fans ran onto the court last week after Quilmes' 102-95 win and ugly scenes followed. Penarol, who are coached by Argentina national team boss Sergio Hernandez, are to be docked four points ...

MANRESA (ACB) - Kalise Gran Canaria stayed at the top of the ACB for another week with defending champions Tau Ceramica at 6-1 after a dramatic win at Ricoh Manresa. After hitting the summit last week for the first time in club history, Gran Canaria won 68-67 thanks to a three-pointer by Josh Fisher in the final seconds. Great Britain's rising star ...

BELGRADE (Adriatic League) - Serbia international Milenko Tepic Partizan missed a lay-up at the end of the game as Red Star won the Belgrade derby 81-80 in the Adriatic League on Sunday. Partizan had survived a few close calls in the competition this season and they almost scraped an unlikely win against Svetislav Pesic's team after ...

ROME (Lega A) - Montepaschi Siena underlined their superiority in Italy on Sunday with an 88-68 triumph at Lottomatica Roma. The defending champions, beaten in midweek in the Euroleague at Panathinaikos, only led 59-53 at the end of the third quarter but pulled away at the PalaLottomatica for an 88-68 win to improve to 6-0 in Italy. Lithuania ...

LAGOS (FIBA Africa Champions Club for Men Zone-3 Qualifiers) - Nigeria champion Sunday display champion stuff by being the first to book a place in the final of the FIBA Africa Champions Club ZONE-3 qualifiers holding at the sports hall of the Lagos national stadium. The Nigeria representative defeated Swallows basketball club of Togo by 71-47 points ...

NAIROBI (Playoff finals) - Co-operative Bank of Kenya will face off against reigning national champions Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) Lions in the 2008 premier league Play Off finals. Co-op responded superbly from their 65-72 Game Two loss to pound Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) 82-68 in a cracking play off semi finals played at Nyayo National Stadium ...

LAGOS (FIBA Africa Zone-3 Men Qualifiers) - Phenix basket club of Cocody, Cote dʼIvoire and Racing Club of Lome, Tome Sunday won their respective classification games against NPA Pythons basketball club of Monrovia, Liberia and Energie basket club of Cotonou, Benin Republic. Racing Club of Togo won its first match since the championship began last ...

VALENCIENNES (EuroLeague Women) - Russia national team center Maria Stepanova came off the bench and scored 10 points and grabbed eight rebounds in just 12 minutes for new club UMMC Ekaterinburg in an 85-65 win at Union Hainaut on Thursday. CSKA Moscow dropped a bombshell last week when they announced the release of their long-time center Stepanova, who ...

View standings MADRID (Euroleague) - Close games marked Thursday night's Euroleague action as Real Madrid, Alba Berlin and Fenerbahce each won by slender margins. Real Madrid edged Armani Jeans Milano at the Vistalegre in the Spanish capital thanks to Louis Bullock's layup with just 3.8 seconds remaining. Felipe Reyes poured in 15 points and hauled ...

LAGOS (FIBA Africa Champions Club for Men Zone-3 qualifiers) - ASPAC basket club of Benin Friday romp into the last four of the FIBA Africa Champions Club Zone-3 qualifiers with a 57-52 pointʼs victory over Phenix basket club of Cocody, Cote dʼIvoire. The Cotonuo-based ASPAC whose assistant coach, Lamatu Tegbe had predicted that her team will make to the ...

LAGOS (FIBA Africa Zone-3 Club Qualifiers) - Phenix basket club, Cocody, Cote d’Ivoire and N P A Pythons basketball club of Liberia Thursday recorded their first ever win at the FIBA Africa Zone-3 Champions Club qualifiers. Phenix who lost its group-B opening by 73-58 points to Nigeria’s Kano Pillars basketball club defeated Racing Club of ...

LAGOS (FIBA Africa Zone-3 Club Qualifiers for Men) - Host of the FIBA Africa Champions Club for Men Zone-3 qualifiers, Union Bank basketball club Thursday book a semi-finals ticket after surviving the scare created by Togo's Swallows basket club in a group-A game. The Nigerian side who was tipped by pundits to over run the Togolese almost became the ...