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Self-Styled as the new up- and coming league with a focus on the development of young talent, the BNXT League has the lofty ambition of improving and securing the future of Belgian and Dutch Basketball. Now in its 4th season we at TIB figured it was about time to see exactly how this is playing…

Spirou Charleroi signs the MVP of the FIBA U20 European Championship B 2019, Rafa Lisboa. Portuguese point guard Rafael Lisboa signed a three-year contract with Spirou Charleroi. The 21 years old has been playing since his debut at Benfica Lisbon and has signed a three-season contract with Charleroi

Leuven beats Limburg, wins for Aalst and Charleroi in Euromillions Basketball league. Leuven won at home against Limburg United (35-37 and 79-68) thanks to another big game from Ryan Kriener (28 points and 6 rebounds). After big game, Spirou Charleroi won at the end of the suspense at the Lotto Aren

Sergio Llorente signs with Charleroi. Charleroi signed a new point-guard: Sergio Llorente. Llorente played with Axel Hervelle in 2016-2017. But he mainly played in LEB Gold, the second division in Spain. He started the season with Melilla where he averaged 11 points, 2 assists and 1 rebound.

Brussels beats Spirou Charleroi (83-77), in Euromillions Basketball League. It was the first game at the Palais 12 in the EMBL championship this season for Brussels basketball. Quickly, Ian Hanavan’s team took control of the game thanks to Pavle Djurisic (25-21). Gradually, the gap climbed during th

Axel Hervelle officialy retires from basketball after an amazing career. It was an open secret, but Axel Hervelle decided to make it official yesterday on Twitter: he ends his basketball career. “It’s time for me to admit that the ‘story’ of my life is coming to an end! Thank you basketball for givi

In the opening game of the 2020-’21 TDM1 season we saw the Gent Hawks hosting the visitors from Spirou Basket Charleroi B and we immediately got our money’s worth as the game went straight down to the wire. From the start both teams went back and forth with neither team being able to run out…

It’s almost here… the start of a new #TDM1 season. As usual we at TIB will follow the competition closely but unfortunately it seems that there won’t be any live stats during the game. Therefore we would like to ask each team to send their boxscores after each game to poeticsdb@thisisbasketball.eu s

Kenneth “Speedy” Smith joined Maccabi Haifa earlier to finish the season in Israel. The future Antwerp point guard is doing big things in the Israel Basketball Super League. He is averaging 16.6 points, 6.4 assists and 2.8 rebounds. In his last game againt Hapoel Tel Aviv, Smith posted 24 points (6

After an emergency meeting the Pro Liga and all its clubs have unanimously decided to end the competition after only 17 games played (out of 26 games in the regular season) due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Current leader Filou Oostende is thus declared as the 2019-’20 Champion, while the tickets for

Record: 5-8, .385% (9th Place)Wins: vs Gistel, @ Royal IV, vs Melsele, vs Lommel & vs OxacoLosses: @ Sijsele, @ Gent, vs Gembo, @ LDP, vs Ieper, @ Limburg, @ Waregem & vs LierLongest Winning Streak: 2 gamesLongest Losing Streak: 3 gamesTeam Scoring: 64.6 ppg (70.3 ppg allowed)Team Rebounding: 34.8 r

In this #ThrowbackThursday we take a look back at the career of Castors Braine’s 2m02 tall Power Forward Tony Marion. Born in Zaïre in 1963 Marion came over to Belgium at a very young age as the family settled at Neder-Over-Heembeek. Inspired by his brother Christian, he quickly picked up playing ba

In this episode of our #ThrowBackThursday we take a look at the outstanding career of the American/Belgian Small Forward Bill Varner. The 1m98 lanky forward was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 1983 NBA Draft after graduating from Notre Dame with strong stats in his junior and senior years. Des

In our #ThrowBackThursday we take a look back at some of the players who have impacted First Division basketball in Belgium. This time around we’ll look back at a very charismatic and humble big man who dominated the Belgian paints with his defensive presence: none other than Andre Riddick, also kno

It has already been 4 years since the always smiling Ralph Biggs decided to put an end to his playing career.In this #ThrowBackThursday we take a look back at the players who have impacted First Division basketball in Belgium. It is safe to say that Ralph Biggs undoubtedly belongs in that category: