Andres Nocioni stays with Laboral Kutxa

The services of Andres Nocioni (199 cm) have been secured by Laboral Kutxa from Spain’s ACB for the 2013-14 season. Nocioni, who holds dual citizenship from Argentina and Italy, joined the team in the 2012-13 season after leaving the Philadelphia 76ers in March 2012. In the 2012-13 season the 34-year-old veteran averaged 13.3 ppg and…

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Zan Tabak out of Laboral Kutxa

Zan Tabak had a very short run as head coach of Laboral Kutxa from Spain’s ACB. He will not be coaching the team for the 2013-14 season. The Croatian joined the club in November 2012 as a replacement for Dusko Ivanovic. He got them as far as the Spanish Cup (Copa del Rey) Semifinals this…

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Walter Hodge to join Laboral Kutxa

Walter Hodge (183 cm, Florida’09) will be joining Laboral Kutxa from Spain’s ACB for the next two seasons. Hodge is coming off a good run with Stelmet Zielona Gora from Poland’s TBL. In 38 games this 2012-13 season in the Polish league he averaged 18.1 ppg and 4.7 apg. He was very impressive playing for…

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Baskonia now called Laboral Kutxa

Baskonia Caja Laboral of the Spanish ACB and the Euroleague will be changing its name this Sunday and will now be called Laboral Kutxa. The rebranding comes after the club took on a new sponsor in the form of Kutxa, a savings bank based in Spain meaning Baskonia will now bear the names of its…

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Caja Laboral signs David Jelinek

Spanish Euroleague and ACB team Caja Laboral Vitoria is shaking things up at the shooting guard position by signing sharpshooter David Jelinek (195 cm). Jelinek is a native of the Czech Republic, but played much of the past five seasons in Spain with DKV Joventut Badalona and its second teams. This season David Jelinek started…

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Neven Spahija to coach Chinese national team?

Neven Spahija leaves for China this weekend. He has been invited by the Chinese Basketball Federation to tour the country for two weeks and give clinics. The 50-year-old Croatian coach also confirms that the Chinese want to discuss a “serious project” with him, but stopped short of saying exactly what that was. China does not…

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Coach Dusko Ivanovic ask € 1.225.000 from Caja laboral

Montenegrin top-coach Dusko Ivanovic was fired recently by Spanish ACB team Caja Laboral Vitoria, but the story doesn’t end there. Ivanovic had a guaranteed contract and now wants to be paid for the entire season. He claims € 800.000 in salary plus another € 500.000 (deducted by 15 % taxes) in image rights. This news…

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Žan Tabak new head coach of Caja Laboral

Žan Tabak is the new head coach of Spanish ACB team Caja Laboral. He signed a two year contract and replaces Dusko Ivanovic. This was reported by Tabak’s manager Zoran Savic. What does Croatian Žan Tabak, Montenegrin Dusko Ivanovic, and Bosnian Serb Zoran Savic have in common? Yes, they are all from ex-Yugoslavia, speak the…

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Coach Dusko Ivanovic fired by Caja Laboral

Coach Dusko Ivanovic has been fired by Spanish ACB team Caja Laboral. The Basque team has had a slow start of the season with a 5-3 record in the ACB plus 1-5 in the Euroleague, and has now also lost two home games in a row. This weekend against Spanish team Blusens Monbus Obradiro and…

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