Now everyone’s playing

PARIS (The Thursday Ballin' Europe Break) - Friendly games are over ! Now we can talk ! 

The NBA season started 2 days ago and we already got millions of things to talk about. Good news like Turkoglu having 24 points in the opener or Andrei Kirilenko nearly registering a quadruple-double. Bad news too like Beno Udrih getting traded and waived or Marco Belinelli not starting in the end and worst, being a very average dancer...

We couldn’t miss either the start of the FIBA Euro Cup season. Count on us to keep you posted about the competition.

The Euroleague season is now well underway since the first games of Day 2 were played yesterday. And even though 100 % of the 24 bloggers we talked to predicted CSKA would reach the Final Four, the Russian Champs had to fight extra hard to get rid of Italian champs Montespachi Siena yesterday night.

Speaking of the Italian League, we mentioned the problems that Fortitudo Bologna is going through ups and downs. We travelled around Europe a lot last week talking about Turkey, France or even Spain.

By the way, if any of you readers have very good European basketball websites to recommend and that is not in our database, please feel free to make us know.

Feel free to join our Euroleague Fantasy League too. You’ll find plenty of good advice from us on the blog. And it seems like it’s actually working if I believe one of our latest posts.

Along with Europeanprospects.com, BallinEurope remains the place to be if you wanna hear about European rising stars and NBA prospects. Tim Ohlbrecht made the headlines of the German version of Vanity Fair but fouls out in 9 minutes against Panathinaikos and Turkish prospect Dogus Balbay injured his knee badly. One news to cheer you up though Nikola Pekovic is dominating Europe at age 21...