Azovmash signed Othello Hunter

Azovmash deepened their frontcourt.


The Mariupol team agreed on terms of contract with Hunter Othello (203-F-86, agency: David Lee services, college: Ohio St.). The forward started the season in China. He played for Shandong Flaming Bulls.

Hunter Othello averaged 18.1 points, 12.5 rebounds and 1.5 steals per game in CBA. Last season the forward spent in Italy. He had a spell for Dinamo Sassari. Hunter Othello produced 14.8 points, 7.8 rebounds and 2.3 steals per game in Seria A. He participated at Seria A All-Star Game. Eurobasket.com named the forward into All-Italian Seria A 2nd Team. Previously the forward had stints in Greece, NBA and D-League.


source : eurobasket.com

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Pacesas denies rumors of Motiejunas move

Although Donatas Motiejunas has been linked with a move to Anadolu Efes by Turkish media, it might turn out that these talks are just unweighed rumors.

Tomas Pacesas, the player’s coach at the Polish side Asseco Prokom, was surprised to hear such a scenario.

"He's moving where? Turkey? First time I've heard about it. We're on a bus together with him in Moscow. We have just flown to a VTB League game. There are no talks of someone leaving the club," the Lithuanian specialist told lrytas.lt.

The 21-year-old Motiejunas, whose draft rights belong to the Houston Rockets, was averaging 12.5 points and 7.9 rebounds for Asseco Prokom in the Euroleague this season.


source : lithuaniabasketball.com

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Rawle Marshall to play in Kazakhstan

Apparently they have quite a good team in Astana.


There is another great signing for very ambitious team of BC Astana of Kazakhstan. The new member of VTB league has signed an excellent shooting guard, Rawle Marshall, 201cm, 1982. Rawle has played with a lot of success in Europe, for Hemofarm, Cibona, Lokomotiv Rostov, Valencia, ASVEL and PAOK.

source : beobasket.net

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CSKA announced Milos Teodosic

Vatutin got his wish!


Our club reached an agreement to acquire European Player of the Year 2010 guard Milos Teodosic (24 years, 195 cm) from Olympiakos Pireus. The player currently practices with the Serbian National Team, his 3-year contract will become valid after the medical tests in Moscow.

One of the most promising players of modern European basketball grew in modest BC Reflex in Serbia. His pro career also includes stints in Borac Cacak, Zeleznik and Olympiakos. He made himself notable plating for junior team in his native country, winning U16 (2003), U18 (2005) and U20 (2007, MVP) European Championships. Two years after he became the European vice-champion with Serbian National Team. 2009-10 season was a pinnacle of his club career until now – Milos was named Euroleague MVP and led Olympiakos to the tournament title game.

His averages in previous Euroleague season were 10.9 points, 2.7 rebounds, 3.6 assists, 0.7 steals in 25.5 minutes in 18 games. His averages in Greek League were 9.0 points, 2.2 rebounds, 4.9 assists, 0.9 steals, 21.5 minutes in 21 regular championship games, 11.1 points, 1.1 rebounds, 4.0 assists, 1.3 steals, 22.4 minutes in 8 playoff games.

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Cantu announced Artsiom Parakhouski

Big man made another step in his career.


Artsiom Parakhouski(2.11-C) is the new player of Cantu as it was announced via their official website earlier today. The Belarusian big man had big hopes of being the first player from Belarus in the NBA but he went undrafted in the end. So he signed last season with Riga in Latvia and played in the Eurocup, the Baltic League, the VTB league and helped Riga win the title of the Latvian league.

Now he makes the next step in his career playing for Euroleague rookie, Cantu the finalist of Lega A1. Parakhouski brings a formidable presence in the low-post but he is still developing as a player and this will be the crash test for him as he will battle it out with the best. His most notable performances were in the VTB league and the Baltic league. He averaged 12.2 points and 5.9 rebounds in 10 games in the VTB and also 15.2 points and 5.7 rebounds in 25 games in the Baltic league.


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CSKA and Sani Becirovic part ways

Our club did not use the contract option to leave guard Sani Becirovic on team’s roster for one more season.


CSKA appreciates Sani’s help in the end of the season and wishes him all the best in future.

Though he barely played in the VTB League Final Four (7 minutes, 2 points, 1 assist), Becirovic was one of our team’s key reserves in BEKO PBL, where he played 17 games, averaging 5.7 points, 2.1 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 0.4 steals in 13.3 minutes.

Andrey Vatutin, CSKA President:
Sani took a difficult decision in March to change the club in the course of the season. We appreciate his professionalism, hard work, the desire to be an integral part of our team. He helped CSKA a lot in the end of the season, he starred in several games and lessened the load on our veteran leaders. His charisma, open character, sense of humor added a lot of positive energy into our team chemistry in difficult days for all of us. We’d like to thank Sani for his work which helped us to win just another championship title and we wish him all the best in his future career.


Sani Becirovic:
Surely, I hoped that I will be needed by CSKA in future. I think I was able to help the team as much as I could; I gave all of myself on the court. I am sorry that I did not have another chance to show myself but that’s life. In my opinion, I had good experience, and I leave CSKA with warm feelings towards the great team and organization, and I wish all the best to CSKA in future!

souce : cskabasket.com

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Unics Kazan announced Savrasenko

Another big man for the champs.



Eurocup title holder and Euroleague newbie, Unics Kazan, announced via their official website the signing of Russian-Greek Center Alexey Savrasenko(2.15-C). Savrasenko comes from Russian club Khimki and brings with him lots of experience.

He has played for Olympiacos, CSKA, Peristeri, Dynamo, Spartak and now Unics Kazan. He averaged last season 4.2 points and 3.2 rebounds in 16 games in the Euroleague, 4.6 points and 3.2 rebounds in 12 games in the VTB league.

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Jomantas renewed with Lietuvos Rytas

6th season in a row.


Last renewal comes from Lietuvos Ryvas that signed a new contract with Lithuanian small forward Arturas Jomantas(1.99-SF) for another season with the option to renew for one more season. The deal was announced via the team's official site. This will be 6th season for Jomantas that has been with the team since 2006. This season he averaged 5.3 points 3.6 rebounds and 2.2 assists in 32 games in the Lithuanian LKL league.

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CSKA announced Jonas Kazlauskas

PBC CSKA Board named Jonas Kazlauskas as the new head coach of the team.


Well-know Lithuanian signed the contract until the end of 2012-13 season.

Andrei Vatutin, PBC CSKA President:
During the Board meeting it took a long time for us to carefully discuss all the pluses and minuses of signing the new coach now, with three and a half months until the end of the season. Finally we concluded that certainty on a head coaching position will allow us to solve two tasks – to improve team’s game this season and to start creating the new team for the next season. Taking over in CSKA now will give Kazlauskas enough time to get know the players abilities from inside the process. We are very serious about club’s future so we were very cautious and careful in choosing the coach, we analyzed the market of all the coaches who are available now and who will be available in the summer. Jonas is an experienced and motivated coach who is known for his abilities to build balanced game and who knows how to work with the young players. It is important that he took part in development projects – his work in Chinese National Team can be considered as the one. His knowledge in English and Russian languages is also a big factor. We liked his big desire to work in CSKA. We are grateful to Dmitry Shakulin for his readiness and enthusiasm to work during tough transition times and for several big wins in PBL and VTB League. I am sure that Dmitry got invaluable head coaching experience. As for the coaching staff, it will be confirmed soon.


source : cskabasket.com

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Khimki announced Lazaros Papadopoulos

Today BC Khimki has signed a contract with a famous Greek center, an ex-PAOK player Lazaros Papadopoulos. The consent was agreed to the end of this season.


On Wednesday Lazaros successfully passed medical examination and joined BC Khimki squad.

Victor Bychkov, BC Khimki General Manager:

— After the departure of Benjamin Eze from BC Khimki it became necessary for us to invite a center, since a lot of important games our club will have ahead. They will determine our position in BEKO PBL Championship and VTB United League. Immediately after the departure of Ben Eze, we began to consider candidacies for this position. One of them was Lazaros. He is a strong center, who played a lot of games for the national team of Greece, and in the leading clubs of Europe. He has Russian roots and spent couple of good seasons in Dynamo Moscow, so I don't think he will have any problems with adaptation. We made an offer that immediately interested as the player as his agent. Then, in a quiet and working mode all the matters relating to the contract were settled. Today, after passing a medical examination we are pleased to announce that Lazaros Papadopoulos has became a full member of BC Khimki.


Oleg Meleschenko, BC Khimki acting head coach:

— We needed a player in the rotation of "big" (4th and 5th "numbers"). With Lazaros coming we will have more opportunities. For example, we can use Loncar in position of power forward. At the moment the candidacy of Papadopoulos seems to be the optimal choice for us. His abilities are well known. He is a leader by nature and is able to pass, plays well by his back to the hoop and on the rebounding, and, importantly, puts the team interests above personal ones. We are confident that Lazaros will help us achieve good results.

PERSONAL FILE

Lazaros Papadopoulos

Position — center

Birthday – June 3, 1980.

Height – 213 cm. Weight – 127 kg.

Entry to club since 2011

Career


Teams played:
1992-1996 – AO Stauroupolis (Greece),
1996-2001 – Iraklis (Athens, Greece),
2001-2003 – Panathinaikos (Athens, Greece),
2003-2004 – Iraklis (Athens, Greece),
2004-2007 – Dynamo (Moscow),
2007-2008 – Real (Madrid, Spain),
2008-2009 – Fortitudo (Bologna, Italy),
2009-2001 – PAOK Thessaloniki BC (Thessaloniki, Greece),
Since 2011 – BC Khimki


Achievements:
1998 – The bronze medal winner of the FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship;
2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 – The winner of the Acropolis International Basketball Tournament (aka the Acropolis Cup);
2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 – Greek All Star Game participant;
2002 – The winner of Euroleague Championship;
2003 – The winner of Greek Championship, the winner of the Greek Cup;
2005 – The winner of FIBA European Championship;
2006 – The winner of ULEB Cup, FIBA World Championship silver medalist;
2007 – All-Euroleague Second Team;


Since 1996 – The player of National team of Greece.

source : en.bckhimki.ru


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Khimki to sign Lazaros Papadopoulos?

All he wanted was his monies..


It seems that the days of Lazaros Papadopoulos(2.13-C) in Paok could be over but we've heard that before. Papadopoulos seems to have an offer from Khimki in Russia according to sportando.net. What's interesting here is that Papadopoulos has also Russian citizenship(he was born there) so he can play in Russia as a local player and not as a bosman player. He's already played in Russia before as a player for Dynamo Moscow and he won the Uleb Cup with them back in 2006. Khimki are looking for a replacement for Benjamin Eze who left them for Olimpia Milano.

Papadopoulos has been the cornerstone of Paok throughout this season and that would strike a major blow if he leaves. However Papadopoulos has expressed complaints about his team's inability to pay him on more than one occasions so it's quite possible that he will leave this time. He has averaged so far 11.9 points 7.5 rebounds and 2 assists in 15 games of the Greek A1 league.

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Marjanovic to play on loan for Zalgiris

Our team’s center Boban Marjanovic will play for Zalgiris Kaunas on loan until the end of 2010-11 season.


Marjanovic signed for CSKA before the start of this season. He played in 8 Euroleague games (4.2 points, 3.5 rebounds, 0.6 blocked shots, 11.6 minutes), 5 PBL games (6.4 points, 4.4 rebounds, 0.6 blocked shots, 13.9 minutes) and 4 VTB United League games (8.2 points, 6.0 rebounds, 0.8 blocked shots, 16.9 minutes).

Dmitry Shakulin, CSKA interim coach:
I am thankful to Boban for his hard work during practices, his professional approach, for everything he did for the team. I am sure that he deserves to play more and in our system he does not receive enough playing time. I am glad that he got the chance to continue playing in the Euroleague, moreover he will play for such a glorious club as Zalgiris were he will be able to improve. We consider Boban as a promising player, we count on his progress, we wish him best of luck and we hope that next year upon returning to our team’s camp he will be able to jump to the next level in his game.


source : cskabasket.com

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Prokom released J.R. Giddens

Asseco Prokom informs that J.R.Giddens has left the club by mutual consent.


American forward joined the team in October, he averaged: 9 ppg and 5.2 rpg in Euroleague; 1.8 ppg and 4.3 rpg in TBL; 6.5 ppg and 3.5 rpg in VTB.


source : asseco.prokom.pl

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Sergio Scariolo and Khimki part ways

The contract between BC Khimki and Sergio Scariolo was cancelled by mutual agreement.


Victor Bychkov, BC Khimki general manager:
-We want to thank Sergio for good and serious work during 2 years. We made this very difficult decision together with coach after discussion. We hope it will help it will shake up the team and BC Khimki will play successfully in Russian Championship and VTB league. 

Sergio Scariolo:
-I want to thank general manager and all the Khimki family for these two years, during this time we did many good things together and the team still is in the group of teams who lead PBL league and VTB league. For me is also a very difficult decision, but I believe that at the same time it was the best thing to do for team and myself.


source : bckhimki.ru

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Aris announced Bobby Brown

Not the singer..


Aris announced Bobby Brown(1.88-PG/SG) via their official website and the signing is valid until the end of this season. This was a "last minute bargain" for Aris as the player was ready to return back to his home in California, but then the offer from Aris arrived so he decided that it would be a good opportunity to stick around. Brown comes from Prokom Gdynia that released the player 2 days ago.

Brown graduated from California State Fullerton back in 2007 but he went undrafted. He has played for Alba Berlin in Germany and the Eurocup back in season 2007-2008 and then he played in the NBA for the Sacramento Kings, New Orleans Hornets, Minnesota Timberwolves and Los Angeles Clippers before moving to Prokom.Aris also secured Oliver Lafaytte but they decided to go with Bobby Brown instead. Kenny Hasbrouck also a target, decided to stay in the US. Brown averaged 12.6 points 2 rebounds and 2.2 assists in the VTB league and 10.7 points 3 rebounds and 4.3 assists in 6 games in the Euroleague. He has already started training with Aris BC and his first appearance will be tomorrow in the game against Kavala BC if coach Drucker believes that he is ready to play.

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Brown and Adeleke move to Dnipro BC

Brown is free but only for a while.


Prokom Gdynia released Canadian swingman Denham Brown(1.98-SG/SF). Brown didn't make it in Prokom and so the Polish powerhouse released him announcing it via their official website:

Asseco Prokom informs that mutual agreement was reached and ways with Canadian Denham Brown were parted.

Brown joined Nigerian center Kenny Adeleke(2.05-C) at Dnipro BC in Ukraine. The Ukrainian club announced both signings via their official website. Both players will be playing at Dnipro's first game in the VTB against Finnish champion Honka on the 6th of October.

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Unics Kazan announced McCarty, Pashutin and Rizvic

UNICS Kazan announced signing of Kelly McCarty  (201-F-75, college: S.Mississippi), Zakhar Pashutin  (196-G-74) and Hasan Rizvic  (212-C-84) for the next season.


Kelly McCarty is coming to UNICS from Khimky Moscow Region. He appeared 16 times in Euroleague last season averaging 14.2 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.4 assists. In Russian championship he added 12.3 ppg and 5.8 rpg for 32 games. He joined in Khimky in 2006 from Dynamo St. Petersburg. McCarty was named Eurobasket.com All-Euroleague Honorable Mention this year. He is an active member of the Russian National Team.

Zakhar Pashutin, younger brother of the new UNICS Head Coach Evgeny Pashutin, played last two years for Spartak St. Petersburg. Last season he had 10.5 ppg, 3.4 rpg and 3.3 apg for 24 games in Russian league. In EuroCup, Pashutin added 7.3 ppg and 3.3 rpg. In the past he was a member of CSKA, Ural Great Perm, ASVEL, Avtodor Saratov and Karsiyaka.

Hasan Rizvic is coming to UNICS from the Ukrainian Azovmash. He helped the team to win the title last season with 13 ppg and 6.9 rpg for 39 games. In VTB United League, Rizvic exploded with 20 ppg and 7.5 rpg for 6 games. He joined Azovmash in 2008 and before that played for Slask Wroclaw, Union Olimpija and Pivovarna Lasko. UNICS Kazan already landed Slavko Vranes  (230-C-83) few days ago.


source : eurobasket.com

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