Malaga signed Roderick Blakney for 2 months

Unicaja has reached an agreement with playmaker Roderick Blakney on a two-month deal, the Spanish powerhouse announced Thursday.


Blakney (181, 34) arrives from Panellinios, where he averaged 11.1 points on 52.9% three-pointers, 3.1 assists and 1.6 steals in 16 Eurocup games last season. He helped Panellinios go all the way from the Qualifying Rounds to the Eurocup Finals and led the competition in three-point accuracy, hitting 27 of 51 shots from downtown. Blakney has also played for Turk Telekom in Turkey; Olympiacos, Maroussi, AEK and Iraklis in Greece; Dynamo Moscow Region in Russia; Los Prados and CPD Club in the Dominican Republic, Cincinnati in the IBL, Dakota in the IBA and Sioux Fall in the CBA during his lengthy career. He won the Turkish President's Cup with Turk Telekom in 2009 and made it to the Greek League finals with AEK in 2003, Marousi in 2004 and Olympiacos in 2008. Blakney steps in to replace Terrell McIntyre, who will be sidelined for at least three more weeks due to a foot injury.

source : euroleague.net

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KK Zagreb to bring in Rancic and Gilder

2 new additions for KK Zagreb


KK Zadar will be adding 2 new players according to tportal.hr.

Damir Rancic(1.98-SG/SF) recently left Panellinios but he won't stay without a job for very long. The Croatian swingman will be playing for KK Zagreb in order to help them in the Adriatic League and the FIBA Eurochallenge. Rancic left Panellinios citing personal reasons and he will be returning to more familiar grounds with KK Zagreb. Rancic has been around a lot and he has played for KK Split, Cibona Zagreb, BC Kyiv, Olimpija Ljubljana, KK Zadar and Panellinios but he also played for them in the past as well.

Trey Gilder on the other hand hasn't played in Europe before but he has played very briefly for the Memphis Grizzlies and also in the NBDL for Colorado, Maine and most recently for the Albuquerque Thunderbirds averaging 14 points and 5.9 rebounds in 10 games.


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Panellinios to sign Samo Udrih

They replaced Rancic with a far better player.


According to the vast majority of Greek sports media, Panellinios are very close to securing Samo Udrih(1.95-PG/SG/SF). Samo Udrih is the older brother of Beno Udrih(1.91-PG/SG) of the Sacramento Kings. He will be replacing Damir Rancic(1.98-SG/SF) who returned back to Croatia. Udrih might even make his first appearance in the Greek leagu this Saturday.

Udrih played for Hopsi Polzela in the beginning of the season but then moved on to Cibona where he helped them win the Croatian League and got them to the finals of the Adriatic League. He has also played for Polzela in the beginning of his career. Other teams were Pivovarna Laško, Geoplin Slovan, Union Olimpija, Maurienne SB, Hapoel Tel Aviv, Girona, Granada and Estudiantes. He averaged 9 points 2.3 rebounds 1.8 assists in 13 games in the Adriatic League. He has played 3 games for Slovenia so far averaging 6.7 points 1.3 assists and 1.3 rebounds. He is also a member of the Slovenian National Team.

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Brindisi announced Herve Toure

Enel Brindisi announced the signing from Lottomatica Virtus Roma of Herve Toure (202-F-82) for the remainder of the season.


The French power forward arrived in the team from the Italian capital in the summer 2009 with big expectations but, with the arrival of coach Matteo Boniciolli, he was put out of the rotations.

Herve Toure with Virtus Roma averaged 6.2ppg, 4.2rpg, FGP: 37.0%, 3PT: 44.4%, FT: 70.6% in Euroleague last season and 5.6ppg, 4.2rpg, FGP: 61.2%, 3PT: 26.9%, FT: 82.4% in 17 games in Serie A.
Toure has a long experience in Italy with Capo d'Orlando, Milano and Cantu.  

source : eurobasket.com


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PAOK blocked Deshawn Sims' move to NBDL

He didn't leave them a choice.


Deshawn Sims(2.03-SF/PF) bailed out on PAOK the other day. The American forward that had recently graduated from Michigan in 2009 but went undrafted. He did take part though in quite a few summer camps and did attract a lot of attention from Europe and PAOK decided to sign him.

However Sims decided that this wasn't the right place for him to be so he decided to pack up his stuff and disappear without telling anything to the people at PAOK. Obviously they weren't too happy about that and they had every right to do so because this was very unprofessional, but they replaced him swiftly with Robert Dozier(2.06-PF). According to basketnet.gr, today the letter of clearance of Deshawn Sims was requested by an NBDL team but PAOK decided to request compensation. They feel that they deserve compensation because of the way the team was treated and unfortunately for Sims they are holding all the cards now. It seems unlikely that the NBDL team would offer any kind of compensation so this would have to fall onto the player.

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Orleans recall Ludovic Vaty

His recovery has been going well.


Today Orleans announced via their official website the return of French forward/center Ludovic Vaty(2.06-PF/C) whose recovery has been going quite well. The injury of his right ankle almost voided his 2nd season in the contract with Orleans who brought him back to replace Zach Moss.

Vaty played in Pau Orthez before Orleans and last season he averaged 8.2 points and 4.6 assists in 32 games in the ProA and also 6.3 points and 4.8 rebounds in 14 games in the Euroleague playing for Orleans.

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Roderick Blakney heading to Malaga

After 3 players turning them down..


Roderick Blakney(1.85-PG) could be the new player of Malaga to replace the injured Terrell McIntyre(1.78-PG) according to basketblog.gr. Malaga's star player will be out of action for what is estimated to be about 6 weeks and so the free agent Roderick Blakney is in negotiations with the team of Malaga according to the article and it all seems to be going rather well. Blakney averaged 11.2 points 2.1 rebounds and 3.1 assists in 18 games in the Eurocup and also 12.1 points 1.9 rebounds and 2.4 assists in 36 games in the Greek A1 league last season playing for Panellinios. Blakney has a Bulgarian passport so he doesn't play as foreign player in Europe although he comes from the Dominican Republic.

Other candidates were Sarunas Jasikevicius(1.92-PG), Zabian Dowdell(1.97-PG/SG) and Aaron Miles(1.85-PG) according to laopiniondemalaga.es. Jasikevicius through his agent Mauricio Balducci declared that he is not interested in a 2 month contract where as Dowdell and Miles are still waiting on the possibility of an NBA contract.

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