CSKA retains scoring ace James through 2023!

They said it: ‘We need the inspiration’

The intensity and passion that characterizes the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague this week spilled over into the post-game discussions, as well. Here is some of the best of what this week’s protagonists, both winners and losers, had to say following their games.

Mirotic, Barcelona were perfect in Round 1

Playing a EuroLeague game before home fans for the first time since March 2020, FC Barcelona made sure that no one went home disappointed, thrashing ALBA Berlin 96-64 with numbers that, if anything, outdid the final score.

101 Greats: Oleksandr “Sasha” Volkov

“101 Greats of European Basketball,” a limited-edition collection published in 2018 by Euroleague Basketball, honors more than six decades’ worth of stars who helped lift the sport on the Old Continent to its present-day heights.