Thomas Abercrombie lands with ASVEL

French Pro A team ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne Basket has added New Zealand player Thomas Abercrombie (198 cm, Washington State’08) for the remainder of the 2013-14 season. The Kiwi has been a long-time member of the New Zealand National Team in 2006, 2009 to 2011 and again in 2013. ASVEL will the first European team that Abercrombie…

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French Pro A: Orleans loses top spot

If you want to watch some tense high stakes Basketball this season, the French Pro A would be a good place to start. The league is extremely tight this year and the competition has proved fierce throughout the campaign, and Round 18 was no different. The results after this week’s round of action means there…

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Tweety Carter links with ASVEL

Tweety Carter (180 cm, Baylor’10) has moved to French ProA team ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne Basket for the remainder of the season. The point guard was playing for S.Oliver Baskets Wuerzburg (Germany, BBL) earlier in the season and played sixteen games with averages of 8.0 points and 2.4 rebounds per game. He left the club at the…

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Eurocup: Cedevita and Valencia head to Last 32

The Eurocup Regular Season is drawing to close this week as Round 10 is completed and attention turns to the Last 32. There were just five games around the continent on Tuesday (the remaining games on Wednesday), but with so much to sort out in the groups there were two more teams booking their places…

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Travis Leslie signs with ASVEL

Travis Leslie (193 cm, Georgia’11) will be playing in France’s ProA league this 2013-14 season for ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne Basket. The 23-year-old was originally set to play for JSF Nanterre (France-ProA), but it appears Leslie will be suiting up for ASVEL instead. Travis spent the 2012-13 season in the NBA’s D-League playing for the Santa Cruz…

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Alex Acker headed to ASVEL

Alex Acker (196 cm, Pepperdine’05) is moving teams. He is slated to join ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne Basket from France’s ProA. He is playing in his final game as a member of Boulazac Basket Dordogne, also from ProA. ASVEL is already locked into the post-season, while Boulazac is a game away from being relegated. In nine games…

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