Self-Styled as the new up- and coming league with a focus on the development of young talent, the BNXT League has the lofty ambition of improving and securing the future of Belgian and Dutch Basketball. Now in its 4th season we at TIB figured it was about time to see exactly how this is playing…
Spirou Charleroi signs the MVP of the FIBA U20 European Championship B 2019, Rafa Lisboa. Portuguese point guard Rafael Lisboa signed a three-year contract with Spirou Charleroi. The 21 years old has been playing since his debut at Benfica Lisbon and has signed a three-season contract with Charleroi. Lisboa was named MVP of the FIBA…
Leuven beats Limburg, wins for Aalst and Charleroi in Euromillions Basketball league. Leuven won at home against Limburg United (35-37 and 79-68) thanks to another big game from Ryan Kriener (28 points and 6 rebounds). After big game, Spirou Charleroi won at the end of the suspense at the Lotto Arena in Antwerp (74-77). Charleroi…
Sergio Llorente signs with Charleroi. Charleroi signed a new point-guard: Sergio Llorente. Llorente played with Axel Hervelle in 2016-2017. But he mainly played in LEB Gold, the second division in Spain. He started the season with Melilla where he averaged 11 points, 2 assists and 1 rebound.
Brussels beats Spirou Charleroi (83-77), in Euromillions Basketball League. It was the first game at the Palais 12 in the EMBL championship this season for Brussels basketball. Quickly, Ian Hanavan’s team took control of the game thanks to Pavle Djurisic (25-21). Gradually, the gap climbed during the second act while Spirou struggled at the offensive…
Axel Hervelle officialy retires from basketball after an amazing career. It was an open secret, but Axel Hervelle decided to make it official yesterday on Twitter: he ends his basketball career. “It’s time for me to admit that the ‘story’ of my life is coming to an end! Thank you basketball for giving me so…
Kenneth “Speedy” Smith joined Maccabi Haifa earlier to finish the season in Israel. The future Antwerp point guard is doing big things in the Israel Basketball Super League. He is averaging 16.6 points, 6.4 assists and 2.8 rebounds. In his last game againt Hapoel Tel Aviv, Smith posted 24 points (6 triples), 7 assists and…
After an emergency meeting the Pro Liga and all its clubs have unanimously decided to end the competition after only 17 games played (out of 26 games in the regular season) due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Current leader Filou Oostende is thus declared as the 2019-’20 Champion, while the tickets for the European competitions next…
In this #ThrowbackThursday we take a look back at the career of Castors Braine’s 2m02 tall Power Forward Tony Marion. Born in Zaïre in 1963 Marion came over to Belgium at a very young age as the family settled at Neder-Over-Heembeek. Inspired by his brother Christian, he quickly picked up playing basketball and joined Racing Club de…
In this episode of our #ThrowBackThursday we take a look at the outstanding career of the American/Belgian Small Forward Bill Varner. The 1m98 lanky forward was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 1983 NBA Draft after graduating from Notre Dame with strong stats in his junior and senior years. Despite getting drafted by the Bucks, Varner…
