Maodo Lo (ankle sprain) re-evaluated in two weeks
Toward the end of last Thursday's game against Real Madrid, Maodo Lo sprained his right ankle. The injury will be re-evaluated in two weeks. Read More »
Toward the end of last Thursday's game against Real Madrid, Maodo Lo sprained his right ankle. The injury will be re-evaluated in two weeks. Read More »
“I was sure I would become a football player. Growing up, I only played football and that was the only thing that I really cared about. But at 11 years of age, I was in junior high school, my best friends, my group of friends, when football season was over, I saw them all going Read More »
Shavon Shields and Nikola Mirotic combined for 50 points and were instrumental in Olimpia big win, 81-76, over the defending champions and league leaders of Real Madrid. Olimpia took the game over late in the first period, when Mirotic entered the court and took the baton from Shields. He led a 21-0 run tha opened Read More »
Not only Real Madrid is the defending champion, but it is the one team that is literally dominating this EuroLeague. Undefeated on its own court, Real Madrid lost once in Barcelona and once in Istanbul-Fenerbahce plus in Monte Carlo when the roster was decimated by absences. Generally they never had major problems even in emergency Read More »
In European competitions, Olimpia Milano and Real Madrid have met 36 times, with a record of 27-9 in Real Madrid favor. Real Madrid-Olimpia awarded the European Cup in 1967 in Madrid and the Cup Winners' Cup in Ostend in 1984: in both circumstances, Real won. This game has been played 18 times in Madrid and Read More »
Olimpia took the game over in the second quarter and responded after a tough stretch in the third to win comfortably 78-72 in Pistoia. It is the fifth straight win in the Italian league. Olimpia struggled in the first period when Pistoia, a hot shooting team, started making six threes out of eight three-point attempts. Read More »
Flying from Istanbul to Pistoia via Florence, across two time zones and almost three hours of flight. For Olimpia there is no time to complain about the missed opportunity in Istanbul, but only to prepare for the game in Tuscany against a solid team, perhaps not very deep, but endowed with considerable talent as it Read More »
An unexplainable collapse in the third quarter doomed Olimpia one more time, 79-73 in Istanbul. After a very promising first half, especially a thunderous second quarter with 29 points scored and Rodney McGruder (16 points at the end) hitting four consecutive threes before missing one, Olimpia led by nine at the half (the biggest lead Read More »
The Istanbul classic between two teams that have often crossed paths in the EuroLeague era comes at a complicated juncture for both. Efes were overwhelmed in Kaunas right from the tip-off, trailing by more than thirty points at one point and was able to narrow the margin late in the game when Zalgiris had the Read More »
