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Author: Yassine Chokrani

Belgian Players Abroad

Julie Allemand ends her first WNBA season, she sets 2 records in WNBA history (VIDEOS)

The first season in WNBA for Julie Allemand is over. The point-guard played her last game this night against Minnessota (86-98) and she had another big performance: 11 points, 9 assists and 5 rebounds. But unfortunately, Indiana won’t make the Playoffs. But for Julie Allemand this season was amazing. She started the 22 games of…

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Brussels Basketball player tests positive for Coronavirus

A Brussels Basketball player tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday. Brussels played his first game of the preseason against Den Bosch in the Brussels European Tournament. Without some players like Foerts, Washington or Massamba, Ian Hanavan’s team was in front for the most part of the game, but the team coached by Jean-Marc Jaumin managed to…

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Hugh Robertson will not play for Leuven this season, 2 new players to replace him

In April, Leuven announced that Hugh Robertson‘s contract was extended for one more year. But when the Bears were supposed to resume training earlier this month, Robertson was nowhere to be found and he was unreachable. When the Bears finally reached him, he was in Egypt for personal matters. According to HLN, Roberston announced that…

Transfers

Baskonia releases Khadeen Carrington

Khadeen Carrington has been released by Baskonia this Friday. Carrington played some preseason games with Baskonia, he scored 3 points against Real Madrid, 7 points against Bilbao but he was scoreless against San Pablo Burgos. The team decided to let him go before the start of the official games. Carrington played with Limburg United in…

NBA

Easy win for the Lakers (VIDEO)

Easy win for the Lakers last night against the Rockets (110-100). The Lakers are now 3-1 ahead in the series. LeBron James team’s is only one win away from the Western conference Final. Anthony Davis had 29 points and 12 rebounds for the Lakers. James Harden had a rough night on the offensive end, finishing…

European Competitions

Oostende will face Zaragoza if they qualify for the Basketball Champions League Final 8

Oostende is still in the race for the Basketball champions league Final 8. Darios Gjergja’s team needs to win the decisive leg against Tenerife September 16 at 20H30 in Spain, in order to qualify for the Final 8. If they can qualify for the Final 8, they will face Casademont Zaragoza, another team from Spain….

NBA

Raptors force Game 7 with crazy double-overtime win over Celtics (VIDEO)

The defending champion Toronto Raptors are still alive ! After 58 minutes, the Raptors forced a game 7 with the 125-122 double overtime win. Despite being down 3 with only 1 minute 30 to play in the second overtime, the Raptors reacted thanks to Norman Powell (23 points) and Kyle Lowry (33 points, 8 rebounds…

NBA

Brooklyn Nets hire Steve Nash as next head coach !

The Brooklyn Nets have named Steve Nash as the new head coach of the franchise ! According to Adrian Wojnarowski, the Hall Of Famer signed a 4-year contract with Brooklyn. It will be the first coaching experience for the former point guard. Nash played 18 seasons in NBA with Dallas, Phoenix and Los Angeles. He…

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Firsts games of the preseason for Oostende (VIDEO)

Oostende started his preseason Sunday with a game against the London Lions. For the first game of the season, Mario Nakic was already very active for Dario Gjergja’s team, he scored 10 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for his first game. Simon Buysse scored 13 points in the first half, Loic Schwartz scored 11 pints…

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A new center for Oostende (Videos)

Oostende announced the signing of the former NBA center, Thomas Welsh (7’0″). Welsh played 11 games in the NBA with the Denver Nuggets in 2018-2019. Before joining the big league, he played 4 years in NCAA with UCLA. Last season, Welsh played in the G League with the Greensboro Swarm. He averaged 10.9 points, 8.9…