
  04 September 2009 Bulgarian volleyball legend Plamen Konstantinov came to basketball relatively late in life. The 2.02m outside hitter grew up in a volleyball family, but once he started playing the sport professionally he found himself more and more attracted to the orange ball.  01 September 2009 Asking handball superstar Ivano Balic what his favorite sport is may seem like a stupid question. After all Balic has an Olympic gold medal and a World Championship to his name, but if you do bother to ask you'll get an unexpected answer. "I still think basketball is the best sport," says the 1.89m middle back.  01 September 2009 If you were living in Slovenia in 1970 it was difficult not to fall in love with the game of basketball. In that year Ljubljana, which is now the capital of Slovenia, but was then a part of Yugoslavia, hosted the final round of the FIBA World Championships, and for locals it was a dream outcome. 01 September 2009 There are few countries in Europe as basketball crazy as Serbia. In 2009, storied club side Partizan Belgrade shattered attendance records when 22,527 fans showed up at Belgrade Arena to watch their team take on Panathanaikos in the Euroleague Top 16. 

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20 September 2009

 Spain tore apart Serbia 85-63 to capture their first-ever EuroBasket gold medal in Katowice, Poland on Sunday night. World champions in 2006, silver-medal winners at EuroBasket 2007 in Madrid and runners-up to Team USA at last year's Olympics, the Spanish underlined their status as the dominant side on the continent. |  | 20.09.2009 20.09.2009 20.09.2009 |  |

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| | | | 23 September 2009 Heads are spinning after two weeks of basketball madness in Poland, and mine is one of them. Here are some closing thoughts from what truly was a memorable EuroBasket. Bear in mind I saw all the games in Group C (Warsaw), Group F (Lodz) and the Quarter-Finals, Semis and Finals (gold and bronze-medal games) in Katowice.
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