Real Madrid officially announced the arrival of point guard Thomas Heurtel, who signed a contract with Los Blancos until the end of the 2021-22 season. Heurtel (1.89 meters, 32 years old) arrives from LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne, where he averaged 14.4 points and 6.2 assists in 23 French League games last season. He helped ASVEL win the French League and the French Cup titles in 2021. He started the 2020-21 season with FC Barcelona, averaging 2.9 points and 2.4 assists in 12 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague games off the bench. Heurtel started his career with Pau-Orthez of his native France. He also played for Strasbourg also of France, Alicante, TD Systems Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz and Barcelona of Spain, and Anadolu Efes Istanbul of Turkey. Heurtel ranks fifth in assists in the EuroLeague's all-time standings with 1,216, and has scored 2,196 points in 226 career games with Baskonia, Efes and Barcelona. He was named the EuroLeague MVP for February 2017, averaging 16.7 points, 10.7 assists and a PIR of 23.0 for Efes. Heurtel led the 2014-15 and 2015-16 EuroLeague in assists, averaging 6.4 and 7.9, respectively. He helped Efes win the Turkish Cup title in 2015, and won consecutive Spanish Copa del Rey crowns with Barcelona in 2018 and 2019, earning tournament MVP honors twice. Heurtel has also been a member of the French national team. He won a gold medal with France at EuroBasket 2013, and a bronze medal in the 2014 World Cup.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="und" dir="ltr">🙌 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BienvenidoHeurtel?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BienvenidoHeurtel</a> 🙌 <a href="https://t.co/bPpwqlEP4a">pic.twitter.com/bPpwqlEP4a</a></p>&mdash; Real Madrid Basket (@RMBaloncesto) <a href="https://twitter.com/RMBaloncesto/status/1412354342955405313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Real Madrid lands point guard Heurtel

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Panathinaikos OPAP Athens reached an agreement with shooting guard Nemanja Nedovic to keep working together until the end of the 2022-23 season, the club announced Monday. Nedovic (1.91 meters, 30 years old) was the fifth-best scorer in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague last season, averaging 16.0 points in 25 games. He also averaged 3.7 assists, 4.6 fouls drawn and a PIR of 14.9. Nedovic helped Panathinaikos win the Greek double - league and cup titles - in 2021. He joined the Greens from AX Armani Exchange Milan where he averaged 7.9 points and 1.7 assists in 17 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague games in the 2019-20 season, his second with the Italian powerhouse. Before that, Nedovic spent the previous three seasons with Unicaja Malaga, where he developed into a star, becoming one of the most dangerous scorers on the continent. Nedovic was third in the EuroLeague in scoring in the 2017-18 season with 16.8 points per game. He also ranked 10th in the competition with 4.8 assists. During his time with Unicaja, which he joined in 2015, Nedovic helped the team win the 2017 7DAYS EuroCup. He is a veteran of 119 EuroLeague games and has career averages of 11.9 points and 3.0 assists.

Nedovic started his professional career with Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade in his native Serbia and made his debut with the first team at 17 years of age. Nedovic moved to Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius in 2012 and made his EuroLeague debut that season. He spent one year playing between Golden State in the NBA and the G-League team Santa Cruz before returning to Europe and joining Valencia Basket for the 2014-15 campaign. Nedovic is also a regular on the Serbian national team, which he helped win a silver medal at 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

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Panathinaikos keeps scoring guard Nedovic

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Reigning EuroLeague champion Anadolu Efes Istanbul will have one of the game's best shooters around for two more seasons after agreeing to a contract extension with Rodrigue Beaubois

Efes, Beaubois pen extension through 2023

The combo guard was already under contract for the coming season and with the new deal he is now committed to Efes through the end of the 2022-23 season. Beaubois (1.90 meters, 33 years old) comes off another fantastic campaign in which he joined the 50-40-90 club, including 49.3% on three-pointers. He averaged 10.6 points and 1.8 assists for the champs, including 15 points in the semifinals at the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Final Four against CSKA Moscow.

Beaubois will likely add two more milestones to his achievements early next season as he is just 138 points away 2,000 for his EuroLeague career and just 5 three-pointers from becoming the 26th player in competition history to make 300 career triples. This season was his third with Efes, which he joined from Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz. He has helped Efes to a pair of Turkish League championships in his time there, too.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="tr" dir="ltr">📝<br><br>2018-2019 sezonundan bu yana formamızı terleten şampiyon oyuncumuz Rodrigue Beaubois ile olan sözleşmemizi 1 yıl daha uzattık!<br><br>Böylece, nam-ı diğer Babuş ile 2022-2023 sezonunun sonuna kadar birlikteyiz! 😉<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BenimYerimBuras%C4%B1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BenimYerimBurası</a> <a href="https://t.co/eAccBf1Lbv">pic.twitter.com/eAccBf1Lbv</a></p>&mdash; Anadolu Efes SK (@AnadoluEfesSK) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnadoluEfesSK/status/1410885980329066496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 2, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Beaubois started his career with Cholet Basket, before leaving for the NBA where he spent four seasons from 2009 until 2013 with Dallas. He played a total of 182 games and was a member of Dallas's NBA championship squad in 2011. Beaubois spent the end of 2013-14 season with Belgacom Spirou Charleroi of Belgium, and also played for Le Mans Sarthe Basket in France before joining Strasbourg for the 2016-16 season, in which he made his EuroLeague debut. He has been a member of the French national team, too.

Reigning EuroLeague champion Anadolu Efes Istanbul will have one of the game's best shooters around for two more seasons after agreeing to a contract extension with Rodrigue Beaubois. 

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Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv signed one of the premier shooters in basketball on Sunday when it penned James Nunally to a one-year deal with an option for a second season. Nunnally (2.01 meters, 30 years old) has made 48.5% of his three-point shots in four EuroLeague seasons, which is the best shooting percentage ever for a player with at least 75 triples. Maccabi will be his third EuroLeague stop after three seasons with Fenerbahce Istanbul, with which he won the championship in 2017, and one with AX Armani Exchange Milan.



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Maccabi will be Nunnally's second stop in Israel; he played for Maccabi Ashdod during the 2014-15 season. He has also played for Estudiantes Madrid in Spain; Avellino and Milan in Italy; Kavala in Greece; Atlanta, Philadelphia, Minnesota, Houston and New Orleans in the NBA; Bakersfield and Frisco in the G-League; and Shanghai in China. In addition to winning the EuroLeague, he also won two Turkish championships and one Turkish Cup with Fenerbahce

"I'm extremely excited to be headed back to Israel, especially to an organization with a tradition like Maccabi Tel Aviv," Nunnally said. "To the fans: I can’t wait to meet you all. Yalla Maccabi!"

Maccabi signs former champ Nunnally

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Panathinaikos OPAP Athens has named Dimitris Priftis, most recently a 7DAYS EuroCup finalist, as the team's new head coach for the next three seasons. Priftis, 52, arrives from UNICS Kazan, where he sat at the head of the bench for the last four seasons. He helped the Russian powerhouse reach the 7DAYS EuroCup Finals and the VTB United League Finals last season. Priftis also guided the team to the EuroCup Semifinals in 2017-18 and took UNICS to the VTB semifinals twice more. Priftis, who made his EuroCup debut with Aris Thessaloniki in 2015-16, has a 52-28 record in the competition on the UNICS bench during his four seasons and is set to make his EuroLeague coaching debut with Panathinaikos, a team he briefly worked for as an assistant coach in 2014. He has previously coached Ikaros Kallitheas, AEK Athens and Enosi Kalathosfairisis Kavalas in his native Greece. Priftis has also worked for Dafni, Ionikos and AEK. He has also been with the Greek national team as an assistant coach for 11 of the last 13 years.

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Panathinaikos hands reins to Priftis

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Olympiacos Piraeus added plenty of size and power to its froncourt by signing center Moustapha Fall to a two-year deal, the club announced on Wednesday. Fall (2.18 meters, 29 years old) arrives from LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne, where he averaged 8.8 points and 5.5 rebounds in 31 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague games last season, his first in the competition. He ranked fifth in two-point shooting (70.1% 2FG) and seventh in PIR per 40 minutes (25.7). Fall joined ASVEL from Turk Telekom Ankara, where he averaged 12.0 points, 8.2 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.5 blocks in 22 Turkish League games in the 2019-20 campaign.

He started his career with Union Poitiers Basket 86 and also played for AS Monaco, Sharks Antibes and ES Chalon-Sur-Saone of France, Sakarya Buyuksehir Basketbol of Turkey and Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar of Russia, where he made his 7DAYS EuroCup debut in the 2018-19 season. Fall averaged 5.6 points on 92.0% two-point shooting (23-of-25), 2.9 rebounds and 0.6 blocks in 10 games in helping Lokomotiv reach the Quarterfinals. He won the French League title with Chalon in 2017 and ASVEL in 2021. Fall also lifted the French second division trophy with Monaco in 2015 and also has been a member of the French national team.

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Olympiacos lands center Fall

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Zalgiris Kaunas continued putting together its roster for the upcoming season by boosting its frontcourt with big man Josh Nebo, the club announced on Monday night. Nebo (2.06 meters, 23 years old) arrives from Hapoel Eilat of the Israeli League where he averaged 13.6 points, led the competition with 9.9 rebounds and also had 1.1 blocks in 26 appearances this past season. It was the first professional season for Nebo, who previously split his four seasons in college between St. Francis University and Texas A&M University. He is now set to make his Turkish Airlines EuroLeague debut in a Zalgiris uniform.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Zalgiris signs Josh Nebo to a 1+1 deal! Welcome to Kaunas and the <a href="https://twitter.com/EuroLeague?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EuroLeague</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/Joshnebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Joshnebo</a>! 🤝 <a href="https://t.co/DR5DIMidBH">pic.twitter.com/DR5DIMidBH</a></p>&mdash; BC Zalgiris Kaunas (@bczalgiris) <a href="https://twitter.com/bczalgiris/status/1407058866836324354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Zalgiris inks big man Nebo

Olympiacos Piraeus struck quickly to sign guard Thomas Walkup to a multiyear deal. Walkup (1.93 meters, 28 years old) spent the past three seasons with Zalgiris Kaunas, where he made his EuroLeague debut. He averaged 8.2 points, 4.5 assists and 1.1 steals per game last season. Walkup helped Zalgiris win the Lithuanian League each season he was there as well as a pair of Lithuanian Cups. After playing college basketball at Stephen F. Austin State University from 2012 to 2016, Walkup started his pro career with Windy City of the D-League. In the summer of 2017, he signed his first contract in Europe with MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg of Germany.

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Olympiacos pens Walkup to three-year deal

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Anadolu Efes Istanbul is the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague champion for the first time! Efes outlasted FC Barcelona 81-86 on Sunday night in the championship game of the 2021 Final Four at Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany. 

Efes wins its first EuroLeague crown

Anadolu Efes Istanbul outlasted FC Barcelona 81-86 on Sunday night in the championship game of the 2021 Final Four at Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany. The victory made all the players on the team champions for the first time as well as Ergin Ataman, who became the first Turkish-born head coach to lift the trophy. Barcelona came back from an 11-point deficit to tie the game in the fourth quarter and was within 1 with 3:25 remaining, but Vasilije Micic scored 7 points in the final 3 minutes to make sure Efes went home with the trophy. Micic finished with 25 points and 5 assists, while his backcourt mate Shane Larkin added 21 points. Sertac Sanli chipped in with 12 for the winners. Cory Higgins led Barcelona with 23 points and Kyle Kuric netted 18. Brandon Davies tallied 17 points and 11 rebounds and Nikola Mirotic added 11 and 9 for Barcelona, which came up short in its bid to win its third continental crown and first since 2010.



Krunoslav Simon, Anadolu Efes Istanbul

Vasilije Micic, Anadolu Efes Istanbul

Shane Larkin, Anadolu Efes Istanbul

A basket-plus-foul from Leandro Bolmaro in transition gave Barcelona a double-digit advantage. Adrien Moerman's tip started the Efes revival. Bolmaro committed an unsportsmanlike foul on Larkin after a steal and the resulting free throws and a Tibor Pleiss triple – Efes's first of the game – made it 25-22, prompting a Barcelona timeout. Simon capped a 0-9 run with a bank shot. Alex Abrines and Higgins gave Barcelona some breathing room with free throws only to see Larkin attack and get to the free-throw line, from where he made 6 shots in a 0-12 run that gave Efes a 29-36 lead. Bolmaro ended the Barcelona drought and Kuric drilled a three from the corner and made a pair of free throws. Rodrigue Beaubois split free throws with 1 second left in the second quarter to send the teams to the locker rooms at halftime with the score 36-39.