Baltic League

Darrick Leonard moves to Pieno Zvaigzdes

By Latest Basketball News | August 19, 2013 |

Darrick Leonard (190 cm, Aurora’07) makes his return to the roster of Pienos Zvaigzdes Pasvalys from Lithuania’s LKL this 2013-14 season. Leonard is making the move from another Lithuanian club, Juventus-LKSK Utenos where he spent the 2012-13 season. In 16 games in the Baltic league representing Juventus, Leonard averaged 13.9 ppg and 5.8 rpg. Leonard…

Despite loss, Ventspils wins BBL trophy

By Bryce | April 7, 2013 |

Off the strength of a 69:91 road win over Rudipis Prienai in the first game of the Baltic Basketball League (BBL) championships series, Ventspils was able to capture the title even though they lost the second game, 70:73 at home in Latvia. The guests were forced to sit two key starters for the series, Gediminas…

Ventspils shoots their way to BBL ‘ship lead

By Bryce | April 3, 2013 |

Anyone that’s ever played competitive basketball can tell you that there are days that you feel like you couldn’t hit the backboard from five feet and then there are days that no matter what you throw up, it somehow finds the cords. If the latter happens to you the best thing to do is to…

Dwight Burke signs with Siauliai

By Latest Basketball News | March 5, 2013 |

American power forward Dwight Burke (202 cm, Marquette’09) has penned a deal to join the roster at BC Siauliai (Lithuania, LKL and Baltic League) until the end of the season. Burke is heading to Siauliai from Slovakian outfit Nova Ves (Extraliga) where he has played 26 games since joining at the start of the season.…

Baltic Basketball: Top 16 Set to Tip off Jan. 7

By Bryce | December 20, 2012 |

The field is set for the next stage of action in the Baltic Basketball League, as four strongest teams from each of the regular season groups will face off in the Top 16 round. The teams will be divided into four groups of four clubs each, with the two best-placed teams from each of the…

Darrick Leonard named Baltic League Player of the Month

By Bryce | November 6, 2012 |

UTENA – Darrick Leonard (190 cm, Aurora University’07) became the first player of the new season to clinch the Baltic Basketball League (BBL) Player of the Month honors after being chosen as the league’s best player in October. The 28-year-old American guard has emerged as the key player for Juventus, maintaining consistency throughout the whole…

BBL Groupings released for 2012-13

By Bryce | September 21, 2012 |

The Baltic Basketball League (BBL) has released the league groupings for the upcoming season. The league will consist of 23 teams, broken up into four groups. The first day of competition has been set for October 2nd. The competition format will be set into the follow separate sessions: • The Regular Season • Top 16…

Shrinking Baltic League merges two divisions

By CJ Clarkson | September 2, 2012 |

The Basketball League (BBL) is changing the format for the upcoming season by merging the two divisions (Elite and Challenge Cup). It means that the total number of teams competing for the title in 2012/2013 will be 21. This decision was most probably a result of last week’s announcement of several top-teams that they would…

Several teams leave Baltic league

By CJ Clarkson | August 28, 2012 |

Zalgiris Kaunas, Lietuvos Rytas, VEF Riga and Neptunas Kleipeda have decided to leave the Baltic league and have chosen for the VTB league instead. The Baltic league has now in fact become a “best of the rest” league with a second rate rating.