Turk Telekom Ankara signed point guard Can Ugur Ogut to run the offense, the club announced Wednesday

Turk Telekom, Ogut reunite

Ogut (1.78 meters, 29 years old) arrives from Gaziantep, where he spent seven of the last eight seasons – with a stop at Bahcesehir in the middle. He averaged 9.6 points and was second in the Turkish League with 6.6 assists per game last season. Ogut began his career with Turk Telekom and played for the senior squad in the 2010-11 and 2012-13 seasons.

<div style="display: grid; place-items: center;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="tr" dir="ltr">Can Uğur Öğüt yeniden Türk Telekom&#39;da 👊<br>Türk Telekom altyapısında yetişen Can Uğur Öğüt yuvaya geri döndü. Oyun kurucu pozisyonunda görev alan Can Uğur Öğüt, 2010-2011 ve 2012-2013 yıllarında Türk Telekom forması giymişti.<br><br>Yuvana tekrar hoş geldin <a href="https://twitter.com/Canugurogut?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Canugurogut</a> 👏 <a href="https://t.co/KMzcgFQ0rm">pic.twitter.com/KMzcgFQ0rm</a></p>&mdash; Türk Telekom SK (@TurkTelekom_SK) <a href="https://twitter.com/TurkTelekom_SK/status/1410244956422393864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>

Turk Telekom Ankara signed point guard Can Ugur Ogut to run the offense, the club announced Wednesday.

Dolomiti Energia Trento announced small forward Jordan Caroline as its first signing for the 2021-22 season

Trento signs physical forward Caroline

Caroline (2.01 meters, 25 years old) arrives from Kaohsiung Jeoutai Technology, where he averaged 28.0 points and 14.4 rebounds in the Taiwan Super League last season. He began his professional career with South Bay in the 2019-20 season with South Bay in the G-League and also played for Hapoel Eilat in Israel's end-of-season tournament. Caroline played college basketball at Southern Illinois University and the University of Nevada, where he was a two-time All-Mountain West Conference First Team selection.

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"Jordan is our first signing, a versatile player who can cover multiple roles and who can have a great impact on the perimeter and in the painted area on both sides of the court,” Coach Lele Molin said. “We count on him to bring physicality and athleticism to the team. We were looking for this type of profile and are very happy to welcome him to Trento.”

Dolomiti Energia Trento announced small forward Jordan Caroline as its first signing for the 2021-22 season.

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MoraBanc Andorra added size and experience to its roster by signing forward Conor Morgan to a two-year deal, the club announced Wednesday

Andorra lands forward Morgan

Morgan (2.06 meters, 26 years old) averaged 8.9 points and 3.3 rebounds in 18 7DAYS EuroCup games last season, his second in the competition. He started his professional basketball career with SIT Zero Fees Southland Sharks of New Zealand and joined Joventut in 2019. Before that, Morgan played college basketball at the University of British Columbia in his native Canada, where he averaged 23.0 points and 10.7 rebounds in 19 games in the 2017-18 campaign. Morgan helped Southland win the New Zealand NBL title in 2018 and has been a member of the Canadian national team.

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MoraBanc Andorra added size and experience to its roster by signing forward Conor Morgan to a two-year deal, the club announced Wednesday.

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Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar announced on Wednesday that it has signed big man Greg Whittington for the coming season

Lokomotiv tabs Whittington to anchor frontline

Whittington (2.03 meters, 28 years old) spent most last season in the NBA with the Denver Nuggets. He returns to Europe after making a strong 7DAYS EuroCup debut in 2019-20 with Galatasaray Doga Sigorta Istanbul. Whittington posted 12.5 points and 48.4% three-point shooting plus 6.4 rebounds in 11 EuroCup games for Galatasaray. The season before, he led the Israeli League in performance index rating (24.6) and rebounds (9.6 rpg.) with Galil Gilboa. Whittington began his career with Sioux Falls in the D-League and has also played for Sydney Kings in Australia and Hokkaido Sapporo in Japan.

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”We got a versatile forward; he is dangerous from the perimeter and acts very well in the paint,” Coach Evgeny Pashutin said. “He is an aggressive, powerful player. He has a quick first step, makes good use of his athletic ability, loves dynamic basketball with a quick transition from defense to attack, which meets our standards.”

Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar announced on Wednesday that it has signed big man Greg Whittington for the coming season.

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The first step of a new and exciting year of competition will take place on Friday, July 9 at 13:15 CEST, when Euroleague Basketball hosts the draw for the 2021-22 7DAYS Eurocup Regular Season. The draw will be streamed live on the official Euroleague Basketball channel on YouTube, on the official EuroCup Facebook page and on EuroCupbasketball.com.

This season a new format for the competition will be introduced. The draw will divide the 20 teams from 13 countries into two groups of 10 teams. They will play 18 regular-season games – nine at home and nine on the road – with the top eight teams from each group advancing to the elimination rounds.

The draw procedure divides the 20 teams into 10 seeding levels with two teams in each, in accordance with the club ranking, based on results from the previous three seasons. Teams cannot face the corresponding seed in the regular season.
### 2021-22 7DAYS EUROCUP DRAW CRITERIA AND PROCEDURE

The draw will be held according to seeds.

• The 20 qualified teams will be divided into 10 seeds with two teams in each, in accordance with the Club Ranking elaborated for this purpose.

• The performance of teams in Euroleague Basketball competitions during a three year period will be used. Each club will get 2 points for a win and 1 point for a tie or loss from the Regular Season onwards. 2 bonus points are allocated for reaching the last 16, 2 bonus points are allocated for reaching the last 8, 1 bonus point is allocated for reaching the last 4, 1 bonus point is allocated for reaching the Finals. The Club Ranking consists of the sum of the club coefficients from the last three years. The results of the worst performing team from each country/League will be added together every year to create a position for that country/League in the Club Ranking. This is the lowest possible position that any club from that country/League can occupy in the draw.

• If two or more teams have the same Club Ranking, the tie will be resolved by the total number of wins during the three year period. Should a tie persist, the final standings in the EuroLeague and if necessary EuroCup from the previous season will be used to break the tie. Should a tie persist, the final standings in the Domestic Championship from the previous season (after the playoffs) will be used to break the tie. Should a tie persist, a draw will be used to break the tie, with the Company determining the method for the draw.

• The first two teams from the Club Ranking participating in the Regular Season will be 1 Seeds, the next two 2 Seeds, the next two 3 Seeds, the next two 4 Seeds, and so on until the 10 Seeds are completed.
### GROUP DRAW RESTRICTION

The restriction when drawing the teams into groups is the following:

• Two teams from the same domestic league cannot coincide in the same Regular Season group, except when there are more than two teams from the same domestic league participating in the Regular Season. In this case, the draw will try to balance the amount of representatives in each Group until it is physically impossible to preserve the Group Draw Restrictions without blocking the draw.
### GROUP DRAW PROCEDURE

• Teams will be drawn one by one from an urn containing only teams in the same Seed, from the 1 Seeds through to the 10 Seeds, until all 20 teams have been selected.

• The first team drawn will be allocated in the Group A and therefore, the other team in the seed will be allocated in Group B.

• In case of a country restriction, either team can be directly allocated in one Group so the other team in the seed will be allocated in the other Group.

• A team may be placed directly into a Group to follow the restriction mentioned above.

Drawing the teams as explained above will eliminate all possibilities of a blocked situation.
### CALENDAR DRAW

A random computer draw will determine the final position of teams within their group.

• The Regular Season calendar draw will allocate numbers from 1 to 10 to the teams in each group. This will establish the match-ups for the entire Regular Season.

• The Regular Season games will be held according to the following chart:

Non-coincidence numbers: (when one team plays at home, the other plays away):

1 with 6; 2 with 7; 3 with 8; 4 with 10; 5 with 9.
### CALENDAR DRAW RESTRICTIONS

• Non-coincidence numbers will be allocated to teams that play in the same city/arena, so that when one team plays at home the other will play away
### 2021-22 DRAW SEEDS

#### 1 SEEDS
Valencia Basket, MoraBanc Andorra
#### 2 SEEDS
Promitheas Patras, Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar
#### 3 SEEDS
Gran Canaria, Joventut Badalona
#### 4 SEEDS
Buducnost VOLI Podgorica, Partizan NIS Belgrade
#### 5 SEEDS
Virtus Segafredo Bologna, Lietkabelis Panevezys
#### 6 SEEDS
Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana, Dolomiti Energia Trento
#### 7 SEEDS
Boulogne Metropolitans 92, Mincidelice JL Bourg en Bresse
#### 8 SEEDS
ratiopharm Ulm, Turk Telekom Ankara
#### 9 SEEDS
Frutti Extra Bursaspor, Hamburg Towers
#### 10 SEEDS
Umana Reyer Venice, Slask Wroclaw


Euroleague Basketball will host draw for the 2021-22 7DAYS Eurocup Regular Season on Friday, July 9 at 13:15 CEST.

EuroCup turns a page to start new season with 2021-22 draw

Frutti Extra Bursaspor keeps getting ready for its second continental appearance ever as on Wednesday it announced the addition of guard Derek Needham for the next campaign

Bursaspor lands Derek Needham

Needham (1.80 meters, 30 years old) arrives from Mornar Bar of Montenegro, where last season he started in 10 of his 11 7DAYS EuroCup games. In over 23 minutes on court he averaged 7.7 points, 1.5 rebounds, 5.1 assists and 1.0 steals. This will be Needham's third EuroCup season with a third different team. He made his debut in 2018-19 with AS Monaco and then played with Mornar Bar.



<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="tr" dir="ltr">Welcome Derek Needham👋<br><br>Kulübümüz Amerikalı point guard Derek Needham ile anlaşmaya vardı. 1990 doğumlu 1.80 boyundaki Needham aynı zamanda Karadağ Milli Takımında da forma giyiyor. <br><br>Needham&#39;a kulübümüze hoş geldin diyor, başarılı bir sezon geçirmesini diliyoruz. <a href="https://t.co/CVVFlOWe1A">pic.twitter.com/CVVFlOWe1A</a></p>&mdash; Frutti Extra Bursaspor (@BsBasketbol) <a href="https://twitter.com/BsBasketbol/status/1410215240428572673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Frutti Extra Bursaspor keeps getting ready for its second continental appearance ever as on Wednesday it announced the addition of guard Derek Needham for the next campaign.

Joventut Badalona made a move that will keep one of its homegrown players with the club for the foreseeable future, announcing a contract extension with Joel Parra, the club announced on Tuesday

Joventut locks up Parra long term

Parra (2.02 meters, 21 years old) grew up with the club and has now added two more years to a contract that was expiring at the end of the 2022-23 season, meaning the young forward will stay with Joventut until June 2025. Parra made 34 appearances in the 7DAYS EuroCup over the last two years and has posted 3.1 points and 2.7 rebounds while averaging 14:27 minutes per game last season. He also posted 3.8 points and 2.9 rebounds in the Spanish League action. Before 2019, Parra was sent on loans to Spanish lower division sides Arenys Basquet and CB Prat. He was a standout for Joventut in youth categories and won the gold medal at the 2016 U16 European Championship with Spain, as well as silver medals at the U18 European Championship in 2018 and U20 European Championship in 2019.

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Joventut Badalona made a move that will keep one of its homegrown players with the club for the foreseeable future, announcing a contract extension with Joel Parra, the club announced on Tuesday.

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Umana Reyer Venice bolstered its frontcourt by inking center Martynas Echodas to a multi-year deal, the club announced Tuesday

Reyer adds Rising Star trophy winner Echodas

Echodas (2.06 meters, 23 years old) arrives from Rytas Vilnius, where he averaged 11.7 points and 6.6 rebounds in 36 Lithuanian League games last season, helping his team reach the final. Born in Kaunas, Lithuania, Echodas started his career with Zalgiris's youth squads. He played for Siauliai before joining Rytas in 2017. Echodas was chosen as the 2018-19 7DAYS EuroCup Rising Star. He averaged 9.6 points and 5.1 rebounds in 18 EuroCup games, helping Rytas reach the EuroCup Quarterfinals that season, in which his team also won the Lithuanian Cup.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="it" dir="ltr">✍️🇱🇹 Big fella from Lithuania!<br>24 anni a luglio, Martynas Echodas firma un pluriennale con l&#39;Umana Reyer!<br>💬 &quot;Sono emozionato, ho voglia di crescere e di vincere!&quot;.<br>👉 Leggi: <a href="https://t.co/RPZINbKzSe">https://t.co/RPZINbKzSe</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/lastoriacontinua?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#lastoriacontinua</a> <a href="https://t.co/zGK4TM1gPy">pic.twitter.com/zGK4TM1gPy</a></p>&mdash; Reyer Venezia (@REYER1872) <a href="https://twitter.com/REYER1872/status/1409849171729920003?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 29, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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Echodas dominated youth competitions before making his EuroCup debut with Rytas. He helped Zalgiris win the ANGT Kaunas qualifier in 2014 and 2015, earning MVP honors in his second appearance, with 22 points and 10.3 rebounds on average. Echodas also did well in the Euroleague Basketball Adidas Next Generation Tournament in both years, averaging 17.7 points, 8.3 rebounds and 4 blocks in 2014, while earning all-tournament team honors. He averaged 15.3 points and 7.7 rebounds in 2015. He was also successful with the Lithuanian youth national teams, winning a bronze medal at the 2015 U18 European Championships, and a silver medal at the 2018 U20 European Championships. Echodas has also been a member of the Lithuanian senior national team.

Umana Reyer Venice bolstered its frontcourt by inking center Martynas Echodas to a multi-year deal, the club announced Tuesday.

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Hamburg Towers made another move in preparing for their 7DAYS EuroCup premier by signing a one-year deal with swingman Zach Brown, the club announced on Tuesday

Hamburg adds scoring punch with Brown

Brown (1.98 meters, 25 years old), arrived from Szedeak Szeged in Hungary where he averaged 17.1 points, 4.3 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.5 steals in the Hungarian League last season. That was the third professional season for Brown, who has climbed up the ranks since finishing his college career at Wichita State University in 2018. 

"I have always taken one step at a time over the past few years. The move to Hamburg is now a big leap." 

He started his pro career in French third-division side Lorient and played a season with AEK Larnaca in Cyprus, before joining Szeged last season. He is now set to make his 7DAYS EuroCup debut.

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Hamburg Towers made another move in preparing for their 7DAYS EuroCup premier by signing a one-year deal with swingman Zach Brown, the club announced on Tuesday.