Basketball

General Director of Red Star (Crvena Zvezda) football club Zvezdan Terzic has submitted his irrevocable resignation.

This adds up to four members of the club's management leaving in just one day - six in the past two days.

Turkey lost in the final of the U18 European Championship 64-61 to hosts Greece in a hard-fought game on Aug. 2 that came down to the wire. 

In a nail-biting final the Greek U-18 men’s national baseball team edged out Turkey (64-61) to win the Euro 2015 basketball championship at Volos. The Greek team showed great courage and determination to come from behind twice during the match. The Turkish team held the lead for most of the match but did not manage to hang on in the end.

“Spaliaras, Yannis Spaliaras.” That’s the name of a Greek model-cum-TV actor who in a recent magazine interview claimed to have slept with more than … 4,000 women.

The 2015-16 Turkish Airlines Euroleague draw was made on July 9 in Barcelona, and all 24 teams now know their rivals to battle to reach the Last 16. 

Four Turkish teams, Fenerbahçe Ülker, Efes Anadolu, P?nar Kar??yaka and Darü??afaka Dogu?, were placed in four separate groups, according to the regulation that prevents match-ups between teams from the same country. 

Bulgarian basketball player Aleksandar Vezenkov was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the Greek Basket League for the past season.

Vezenkov, who spent the past four years at Aris Thessaloniki, is expected to soon sign a contract with Barcelona.

Turkey defeated Greece 80-71 on June 5 to win the bronze medal at the FIBA U-19 World Championship, held in Crete, as the United States clinched the title. 

Turkey's trip to the podium marks its best ever result in the tournament. 

Bulgaria's rising basketball star Aleksandar Vezenkov reportedly signed a four-year contract with Barcelona.

The 19-year-old power forward joins the Spanish club after spending four years at the Greek team Aris Thessaloniki, daily Dnevnik reports.

According to media reports, among the other clubs expressing interest towards Vezenkov were Olympiacos, Panathinaikos and Valencia.

Four Turkish teams will represent Turkey in the Turkish Airlines Euroleague next season, after Beko Basketball League champion P?nar Kar??yaka was granted a spot in the competition on June 29.

P?nar Kar??yaka will join Anadolu Efes, Fenerbahçe Ülker - which both have A licenses- and Do?u? Darü??afaka, which was given a wildcard for the 2015-2016 season.

Serbian women's basketball team won the European Championship title, after the girls defeated France late Sunday, by 76:68 (15:22, 18:10, 20:17, 23:19).

The team coached by Marina Maljkovic made the greatest success for women's basketball in Serbia, as this was the first gold in a big competition.