Murcia close to Martinez and Timinskas

Polaris World Murcia is close to signing to spanish guard Gonzalo Martinez and lithuanian forward Mindaugas Timinskas. According to acb.com Murcia is after the experienced guard who played for MMT Estudiantes for the last 3 seasons and although he is 34 years old his vast experience is valued greatly. He averaged 3.3 points and 1.5 assists in 24 games in the ACB last
season.

According to solobasket.com Murcia also made an offer to Mindaugas Timinskas for 200.000 euros per season. Timinskas played for Valencia last season and in 34 games he averaged 4.3 points and 2.4 rebounds.

Hapoel Jerusalem announced Omar Sneed

Hapoel Jerusam announced 31-year old forward Omar Sharriff Sneed for a one-year contract. He also played briefly for Lokomotiv Roshtov and Maccabi Rishon where he averaged 16.4 points 7.5 rebounds and 4.4 assists in 8 games in the israeli league.

Huertas going to DKV

DKV Joventut announced via their official website that they have matched the offer that Bilbao made to Marcellinho Huertas and that the player will be playing for them in the next season in the Euroleague and the ACB. Tau was also interested in Huertas who is now playing preparation games with the National Team of Brazil.

Last season he averaged 14.6 points 3.9 assists 2.7 rebounds and 1.6 steals in 34 games of the ACB.

Kolossos Rhodes is close to Apostolidis

Kolossos Rhodes is close to the transfer of Georgios Apostolidis according to greek media for a year on-loan from Olympiakos. Coach Sferopoulos was an assistant coach in Olympiakos and he still has good relations with the administration of Olympiakos. Apostolidis did not perform as expected last year as a player of Panellinios and this year he gets another opportunity to showcase his skills as a player of Kolossos in the A1 league.

Apostolidis scored 30 points in 16 games and dished 6 assists.

Cantu announced Jason Rich

Cantu announced 22-year old Jason Rich(1.91-SG/SF) via their official website. Jason Rich played for 4 years in college for Florida State where quickly he became a vital member of the roster and ended playing most of his game in the starting-five. He is very athletic and always chases after rebounds. His athleticism helps him not to only to score but also play good defense and adapt a very physical approach to his game.

He averaged 14.5 points 4.4 rebounds and 2 assists in 34 games in his last season with Florida State.

DKV and Roma are after Marconato.

Denis Marconato was not going to go un-noticed. The experienced italian 7-footer center is now free from Barcelona and free to bargain for the best contract that will be the next step of his long and illustrious career. According to championat.ru DKV and Roma are fighting to win over the player, both teams will be participating in the next season of the Euroleague and they will face each other as they are both in Group C.

Marconato played for Barcelona for the past 3 seasons and he averaged 3.6 points and 3 rebounds in 21 games last season in the Euroleague.

Zalgiris and Tau fighting over Marko Popovic

Zalgiris Kaunas and Tau Ceramica have both made offers to Marko Popovic who is now a free-agent as his 2-year contract with Zalgiris Kaunas came to an end this summer. Popovic soon became one of the most popular players in Kaunas and the fans of Zalgiris have demanded to their team to keep him another year.

Tau Ceramica has an opening though, an empty space because of Planinic's move to CSKA and Marko Popovic seems to be one of the best candidates for the point guard position. Popovic mentioned in an interview some weeks ago that he wants to play for a Euroleague team so it seems likely he will go for one of the two offers. According to infosport.lt coach Ivanovic of Tau spoke to Popovic and let me know that he is counting on his presence next year.

He averaged 11.7 points and 2 assists in 20 games in this year's euroleague for Zalgiris.

Blanco remains in Fuenlabrada

Fuenlabrada exercised the right of first refusal and so Saul Blanco will stay for another season in Fuenlabrada although Pamesa Valencia made an offer to the player.

Blanco averaged 8.8 points 3 rebounds and 1.6 assists for Fuenlabrada last season in 25 games for the ACB.

Milic underwent surgery

After successfully held out its first basketball camp in Kranjska Gora, the captain of Union Olimpija Marko Milic decided to underwent a surgery on his injured finger…

Milič suffered the pain in his right finger for months before making the final decision. Due to the nature of the surgery he will have to sty away from the basket ball for about four months and will leaves doubts if he will be ready on time for the start of the team's practicing camp in August.

Milic averaged last season 15.8 points and 6.4 rebounds in 14 games in the Euroleague.

Kyritsis and Wesson to PAOK??

According to greek site basketblog.gr Alexis Kyritsis and K'Zell Wesson will be following Dimitrios Drosos to Paok if he takes over the administration of the team. The betting tycoon has been involved with the administration of Sporting Athens which he abandoned in order to take over AEK Athens. Earlier this summer though he made statements declaring that he will be leaving AEK as he can't agree terms with former AEK chairman Ioannis Filippou. The details are shady and noone really knows why Drosos left AEK take he took over when the club was falling apart and is still falling apart as AEK doesn't have any administration currently.

Another team that is falling apart is PAOK BC which has debts that sum up to about 2.7 million euros and he is interested in taking over. PAOK was almost relegated to the A2 league last season but luckily for them the outcomes of other games were favorable although they lost the last game against Aris. Kyritsis averaged 13.2 points 2.1 rebounds and 1.9 assists in 28 games whereas K'Zell Wesson averaged 12.4 points and 8.8 rebounds.

If the deal is accomplished with PAOK these 2 players will be following Drosos to PAOK. Rumors have it that they are bound by private contracts to his own company as he did in the past for players of Sporting that followed him to AEK when he took over.

Hoskin has offers from Russia, Turkey and Greece

Sam Hoskin, the american forward/center that played last season for Cibona has quite a few offers to continue his career according to championat.ru. There are offers from Russia, Turkey, Greece. It might seem more likely that he will prefer the offer from a russian team as they pay well and as he played before for Dynamo Moscow and Ural Great so he knows the environment.

Hoskin averaged 13.7 points and 5.8 rebounds in 13 games in last season's Euroleague playing for Cibona

DKV set sights on Jasaitis and Barnes

According to acb.orange.es and solobasket.com DKV Juventut has set sights on lithuanian forward Simas Jasaitis and american center with spanish passport Lamont Barnes.

Jasaitis was released from Tau and DKV is looking for a good shooting forward to cover the loss of Rudy Fernandez and possibly Lupos Barton. Jasaitis averaged 4.8 points and 1.8 rebounds in 28 games in the ACB league.

Lamont Barnes played for Leon last season where he averaged 8.1 points 5.6 rebounds and 1.5 blocks in 34 games for Leon. He has a spanish passport from his wife's side of the family.