Simonas Serapinas had offer from ukrainian team

Simonas Serapinas had an offer from a ukrainian team according to polish site gazeta.pl. Serapinas and Gurovic will be leaving Prokom Trefl that are trying to reduce their budget this year and if the deal goes through then Serapinas will be making double the salary that he had in Prokom.

Serapinas started this season at Aris Thessaloniki where he played 10 games for greek league A1 and 11 games in the Euroleague. He later on moved to Prokom where he averaged 5.2 points and 1.6 rebounds in 31 games. Prokom won the polish league last season. Before Aris, Simonas Serapinas played for Zalgiris Kaunas.

Aris is interested in Christos Tapoutos

Aris is after Christos Tapoutos according to greek media. The greek small forward played for AEK Athens the last 2 years where he managed to regain his form recovering from a series of serious injuries.

According to greek newspaper metrosport coach Mazzon of Aris called Tapoutos to discuss the possibility of Christos Tapoutos playing for Aris and he was quite positive about it. The rumors that a 3-year contract offer will be made to Tapoutos very soon. He averaged 11.6 points and 4.6 rebounds in 22 games this season.

Anwil wants Gerrod Henderson back.

According to eurobasket.com Anwil is interested in getting back Gerrod Henderson. The 29 year old combo guard finished last season as a player of Azovmash Mariupol winning the ukrainian league but started it as a player of Anwil. He played 13 games in the polish league for Anwil averaging 15.6 points, 4.2 rebounds and 3.1 assists.

In February he joined Azovmash for play-off of the ukrainian league helping them to win the league averaging 11.5 points 3.5 rebounds and 2.8 assists.

Pamesa made offers to Blanco and Sonseca

Pamesa Valencia made offers to Fuenlabrada and Girona for Saul Blanco and Eduardo Sonseca respectively according to spanish media. The offers were made so their hosting teams have now 10 days to decide whether they would exercise the right of first refusal and propose equal offers in order to keep them in their rosters or release them.

The offer for Blanco is for 3 years and 350-400.000 euros per season and for Eduardo Sonseca is for 2 years and 600.000 euros per season. Blanco averaged 8.8 points and and 3 rebounds in 25 games for Fuenlabrada and Sonseca 8 points and 5 rebounds in 34 games for Girona in the ACB.

Maccabi is interested in Jackson Vroman

American forward/center(2.07-PF/C) Jackson Vroman is targeted by Maccabi Tel Aviv according to israeli media. Vroman started the season in Girona where he played 18 games in the spanish league and averaged 9.4 points and 4.8 rebounds. Afterwards he moved to Lietuvos Rytas to help them in the euroleague where he averaged 9.2 points and 6.3 rebounds.

Vroman also played for Gran Canaria and had a brief career in the NBA playing for the Hornets and the Suns.

Carlos Cherry renewed with Granada

The administration of Granada decided to renew the contract of Carlos Cherry for another year. Carlos Cherry said that the quality of life in Granada won him over and that he is also quite happy to stay with the team for another year as he likes the atmosphere in it.

Cherry averaged 3.6 points and 1.3 assists in 28 games in the ACB.

One big mess with Goran Dragic

Goran Dragic signed a contract with Tau Ceramica in the summer of 2006 after paying a 30.000 euros buyout to Geoplin Slovan the team that he initially played for. According to the slovenian site 24ur.com the slovenian judicial system has reversed the decision that sold Dragic to Tau by saying that Tau needs to negotiate with Geoplin now in order to gain the rights of the player for next season.

Slovenian sources mention that if Geoplin re-acquires the rights to the player then they will set a 500.000 dollars buy-out on him in order to sell him either to Olimpija or Phoenix. Is this a coincidence that this happens while Dragic wants to break out of his contract with Tau and move to Phoenix who have his NBA rights? Judicial problems are not something new to slovenia as there were problems with the case of Miha Zupan as well.

Now that is what we call a precision pass..

The cheerleader in this video was not expecting this pass.. it's still a good pass though ;)

Many thanks to our friend Hurude for sending this to us.

You can view the video here.

Katsikaris has approached Dikoudis

According to greek site basketblog, Fotis Katsikaris is meeting today in Athens with Demos Dikoudis to discuss the possibility of Dikoudis playing for Pamesa Valencia next year.

Dikoudis had played for Pamesa Valencia before during season 2003-2004. He has also played under the guidance of Katsikaris in AEK Athens when he was the assistant coach between 1998 and 2002. The two of them go way back and Pamesa Valencia will be a familiar ground for Dikoudis as it was the place where he had his best european year performance-wise. That season Dikoudis averaged 13.4 points and 5.6 rebounds in 25 games in the ACB. Now that Katsikaris is still head coach in Valencia he'd be more than happy to work with Dikoudis again.

Now that he is being released from Panathinaikos this might be the next step in career, that is to return to Valencia.

Tau renewed youngster Ander Arruti

Ander Arruti is one of Spain's rising talents. The youngster was the leading scorer of the U-18 league in Spain and belongs to Tau. His height is 1.90m and he can play both guard positions. Experts in Spain say that despite his talent he needs to add more muscle mass to his figure in order to play pro.

Many teams were after Arruti, first and foremost Zaragoza that offered him a 4-year contract that would get him playing time in the EBA league for 2 years and then moving on to the main team. Pamesa Valencia also stepped in but their offers were rejected as well. The kid shows his alliegence to Tau and with the technical staff of Tau they will work on a plan in the upcoming months for his development as a player and the first plan is to play for Euskotran Baskonia that is Tau's second team in order to get more experiences with tougher opponents.

Gran Canaria decides on Roberto Guerra

Gran Canaria has the right of first refusal, that means they can choose to exercise that clause in the contract of Roberto Guerra in order to book him for next year. If they don't do that within the next 10 days then Zaragoza will step in to claim the young spanish guard according to solobasket.

Roberto Guerra averaged 6.9 points 1.6 rebounds and 1.7 assists in 32 games in the ACB last season playing for Gran Canaria.

Ivan Radenovic renewed with Girona for another year

Ivan Radenovic(2.08-PF) has renewed his contract with Girona for another year. The serbian power forward was targeted by Aris but the deal didn't go through and they booked Blagota Sekulic instead.

Radenovic will have a lot more playing time with the absence of Marc Gasol that will continue his career in the NBA. Playing for Akasvayu Girona last season he averaged in 27(24+3) games 5.7 points 3.8 rebounds and 1.6 assists getting more playing time in the play-offs.