Maccabi announced Giorgi Shermadini

Giorgi Shermadini signs with Maccabi

Sundiata Gaines signed with BC Armia

Again better later than never. These days the Hoop is not on top form but within the next 2 weeks things will be back to normal.

Will Thomas to play for BC Armia

Another experienced player for the Army club.

Jeremy Richardson and the rumors of the day

These just came in!

Maccabi Tel Aviv interested in Giorgi Shermadini

This just came in..

Gecevski out, Tskitishvili in?

He wants his monies!

Shermadini to play on loan in Olimpija

It's better than being sidelined.

Green and Hosley got Georgian passports

But there can be only one playing for Georgia..

Jasikevicius was withdrawn from Greek league

Jasikevicius will continue playing only in the Euroleague for Panathinaikos.

BC Donetsk signed Giorgi Tsintsadze

BC Donetsk signed Giorgi Tsintsadze (193-PG-86) until the end of the season.

Giorgi Tsintsadze's agent clarifies things

Giorgi Tsintsadze’s agent Levan Mikeladze comments on Eurobasket.com article “Trikalla release Giorgi Tsintsadze”.

Tskitishvili paid and Fuenlabrada announced him

Nikoloz Tskitishvili paid the team of Panionios and they provided his letter of clearance.

Tskitishvili is willing to pay for his release!

Nikoloz Tskitishvili has decided to pay for his release and he even upped his offer.

Tskitishvili wants to return to Panionios!

Nikoloz Tskitishvili recently had a change of heart and asked the Greek team to take him back.

Nikoloz Tskitishvili bailed out!

Nikoloz Tskitishvili(2.10-PF/C) bailed out on the people of Panionios and he is probably heading to Spain!

Panathinaikos will not sign another player

Panathinaikos will not sign another to player to replace the injured Kostas Tsartsaris(2.11-PF/C). The Greek forward/center recently underwent an operation on his left wrist and he will be out of action for about 2 months.

Paok aiming high but already in trouble

The team of Paok are aiming high with their transfers this season and they're trying to sign good players with as less money as possible but it seems that they're already in trouble with the Greek Federation.

Let's start from the beginning though. The team of Paok are interested in Georgian forward/center Nikoloz Tskitisvili(2.13-PF/C) to complement their frontline after signing Wade Heliwell(2.11-C) and Predrag Drobnjak(2.11-C), according to Greek media. They are also interested in bringing back veteran Ioannis Giannoulis(2.07-PF/C) who played for Panionios last season. Obviously the case of Tskitisvili is difficult as Paok don't really have much money so they would need to bring down Tskitisvili's demand for a contract. Giannoulis on the other hand wishes to end his career playing for the team that made him popular, so that case sounds a lot easier.

On the other hand, the Hellenic Professional Basketball Players Association released a statement today saying that they are putting themselves in favor of Panayotis Kafkis(1.95-PG) and Giorgos Tsiaras(2.07-SF/PF) who had signed last season, 2-season contracts with the previous administration of Paok(Dimitris Drossos). The contracts sum up to 180,000 and 230,000 euros respectively and they would form close to half of Paok's players' budget for this season. Hence the Greek team decided to take this matter into court claiming that the players signed their contracts with the previous administration and they are not liable for them. Kafkis and Tsiaras also sued their team, that currently banned them from practicing with the rest of the team. Suffice is to say that Tsiaras and Kafkis are looking for other teams to continue their career in.

AS Trikala announced Giorgi Tsintsadze

AS Trikala announced Georgian point guard Giorgi Tsintsadze(1.92-PG) via their official website. Tsintsadze was a personal choice of head coach Vaggelis Aggelou that had him as a player in Dynamo Moscow when he was the assistant coach to Dusan Ivkovic.

Tsintsadze played initially for the second team of CSKA Moscow and later on moved to CSK Samara and Dynamo Moscow. For the last 3 seasons he has been playing for Estonian team Tartu Rock. He averaged 8.9 points 2.8 rebounds and 4 assists in 21 games of the Estonian League, 16.4 points 3.6 rebounds and 5.3 assists in 21 games of the Baltic League and 10.2 points 2.2 rebounds and 4.7 assists in 6 games of the Eurochallenge. He is also a member of the National Team of Georgia.

AEK Athens interested in Sanikidze

Viktor Sanikidze (203-F-86) is the first target of AEK for the PF position. The Georgian forward got drafted (2rd, N.42) in 2004 from Atlanta Hawks but his rights got traded to the San Antonio Spurs. He started his career from Academy Tbilisi and next year moved in the stronger France Pro-A league to play for Dijon Bourgogne. After playing two years in Dijon he got the big transfer to play in the Spanish ACB league for Estudiantes Madrid.

The things did not go well for the Georgian player in Spain, he was not playing a lot but the second year was worst, he had a serious injury which caused him to sit out the entire season. He started practising months later in Dinamo Tbilisi but he realized in Germany, when he went for a tryout, that his career was on great danger. Viktor said to Eurobasket.com one year ago: I went in Germany for try out and on one practice I didn't feel good on my knee. So, I checked my knee with German doctors and they told me to stop playing, otherwise I would risk my career.

This season Tartu from Estonia gave him the opportunity to be back in courts and had great games. He played 20 games in the Baltic league having 9.3ppg and 6.3rpg. Already teams from France are showing interest for him.

source : eurobasket.com

Pachulia to stay with the Hawks

Free agent center Zaza Pachulia has agreed to terms with the Hawks on a long-term deal, according to two sources familiar with the situation.

Pachulia, 25, spent the last four years with the Hawks on a $16 million deal. His new deal is believed to be for the same amount of years but with a significant raise, according to one of the sources familiar with the situation.

Today is the first day free agents can sign contracts and trades can be completed. Veteran point guard Mike Bibby agreed to terms on a new three-year, $18 million deal with the Hawks Tuesday.

source : ajc.com