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Brits in Europe

Nick George Retires Due to Health Problems

August 31, 2010

It is being reported by Eurobasket that Nick George, a former Team GB regular, has informed his Italian side Fastweb Junior Casale Monferrato that he is retiring with immediate effect due to serious health reasons. The two sides mutually agreed to break the contract that would have seen the 28 year old George playing at [...]

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Andy Betts Signs to Ukrainian Side Budivelnyk

August 29, 2010

Team GB regular Andy Betts has signed to Ukrainian team Budivelnyk Kiev. The 7 foot, 33 year old centre averaged 8.4 ppg along with 4.4 boards in the Eurocup for Greek side Aris last season. He hasn’t played in this summer’s GB campaign due to family commitments, but averaged 6.5 ppg and 3.5 rpg in [...]

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Video: Robert Archibald Re-Signs With Unicaja Malaga

August 13, 2010

Unicaja Malaga have reached an agreement with Scottish big man and former NBA player Robert Archibald which will see him staying with the Spanish side until the end of next season. He has been with the team for the last two years and averaged 8.4 ppg and 4.2 rpg last season. Archibald had to withdraw [...]

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EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Richards Audio Interview (Part 1)

August 9, 2010

The week before last (Thursday 29th July 2010) San Antonio Spurs draft pick and British baller Ryan Richards spoke exclusively to Hoopsfix about getting drafted, the San Antonio Spurs, his shoulder surgery, haters, and his plans for next season. Full interview transcription coming soon, for now check out the audio. Part 2 coming soon, which [...]

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Pops Mensah-Bonsu Signs With Saski Baskonia

August 9, 2010

Pops Mensah-Bonsu has officially signed a 1 year contract with an option for a second with ACB side and playoff winners Saski Baskonia Caja Laboral. Mensah-Bonsu who end up playing last season in Russia with CSKA Moscow is looking forward to returning to the ACB, talking to Mark Woods he said: “This is as a [...]

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‘That still hurts’-Devon Van Oostrum still feels pain of European Champs ’09

June 30, 2010

Devon Van Oostrum (’93 born), the young British sensation recently named to the Team GB Senior Men’s initial roster, still feels the pain from his England U16 campaign last year and their failure to gain promotion to Division A. In an interview revealing his fiercely competitive nature with FIBA Europe’s Paul Nilson he said; “That [...]

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Pops Mensah-Bonsu Let Go by CSKA Moscow

June 30, 2010

TalkBasket.net are reporting CSKA Moscow won’t be renewing Team GB star Pops Mensah-Bonsu’s contract for next season. In an interview Russian paper Gazeta.ru CSKA’s GM Andrey Vatutin stated; “Pops was one of the most interesting cases of last season. In some games he was effective and some other games not so effective. From a marketing [...]

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Video: Ryan Richards Golden State Warriors Interview/Workout

June 15, 2010

Check out this great video interview with Ryan Richards from the Golden State Warriors when he was there for his pre-draft workout. It covers his career to date, what his thoughts are on his own game and also how his workout with Golden State went.

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Ryan Richards Keeps His Name In the NBA Draft

June 15, 2010

Ryan Richards has decided to keep his name in this year’s NBA Draft according to ESPN’s Chad Ford. The deadline for international underclassmen to withdraw was 5p.m ET yesterday. Tweeting from his account @chadfordinsider, Ford said; “English big man Ryan Richards staying in the draft according to agent. He didn’t get 1st round promise, but [...]

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Video: Ryan Richards Utah Jazz Workout Interview

June 10, 2010

Ryan Richards worked out for the Utah Jazz yesterday, check out what he had to say to the press after his workout including have a joke around with the reporters about coach Jerry Sloan’s use of language; always nice to see the more human side of someone!

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