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Rick Pitino Has Had It With These Greek Fans Smoking During His Basketball GamesDisgraced former Louisville Cardinals basketball coach Rick Pitino has spent the past six months or so coaching in Greece, where he’s finding success leading Panathinaikos in the Greek League. It’s a madcap new life filled with unfamiliar new experiences, as detailed in this article from The Ringer ...

Lithuanian Basketball Team President Gets Wildly RacistGedvydas Vainauskas, the president of Lithuanian professional basketball team BC Lietuvos Rytas, had this to say about black players on his basketball team....

Tall Basketball Guy Now Has To Quit, Find Another OccupationSame goes for the little guy’s teammate for missing the shot after this spectacular-as-hell move....

Adam Morrison Is Coming Home From Serbia, Where He Was Playing Basketball, Apparently

For today's edition of Former College Hoops Sweathearts: Where Are They Now?, we're checking in with former Gonzaga star and former No. 3 overall pick Adam Morrison. Again....

Brian Scalabrine Is His Team's Second-Leading Scorer In Italy

Brian Scalabrine is one of those NBA players that we all delight in calling a "role player," even if his role was never particularly valuable. In Boston, his role was to occasionally come in to fall on a loose ball and get praised for his hustle, but mostly it was to delight all of the white kids ...

Adam Morrison Gets Thrown Out Of A Game In Serbia, Where He Is Playing Basketball, Apparently

For today's edition of Former College Hoops Sweathearts: Where Are They Now?, we're checking in with former Gonzaga star and former No. 3 overall pick Adam Morrison....

When European Basketball Fans Get Excited, They Light Their Stadiums On Fire

Here we were thinking VCU fans were having "riots" last week, but they're nothing compared to Panathinaikos BC fans. In this European basketball game last Thursday against Barcelona, Greek basketball fans torched their own stadium. Yes, what you see above is a basketball game — not a race riot....

Spanish Announcer Goes Loco After Amazing Final 30 Seconds To Euroleague Basketball Game

We could attempt to recap the final 30 seconds of this Euroleague game between Real Madrid FC and Unicaja Malaga on Saturday, but we wouldn't really know where to begin. It's much better, we think, to listen to this Spanish sportscaster's telling of the epic finish, even if you can't understand hi...