Basketball

Kosner Baskonia won a comfortable victory over the Recoletas Salud San Pablo Burgos (89-77) on Saturday, despite the opponent's effort to the end.

Taking advantage of Christmas, Baskonia has conducted a special training today: the doors have been open. The initiative has aroused great expectation and more than a thousand people have approached the Buesa Arena to follow the working session on the spot. 

Paolo Galbiati, coach of the Vitoria team, celebrated the agreement: "He is an important player, on the court and in the locker room."

Galbiati's team made a bad first part and the Valencia team left on the scoreboard. After the break, the Alavés team was better, but it was not enough to go back to the meeting.

Baskonia has turned the matchagainst Unicaja into a huge game of the American escort Markus Howard. The player has scored 30 points and scored a triple that has served to win in the last play, allowing him to go back 17 points (90-93).

With two free shots scored by the American Keandre Cook, the Rio Breogán has defeated the Surne Bilbao Basket (100-99) , seconds earlier with a spectacular triple by Darrun Hilliard, when he nurtured his dream of getting the ticket to the King's Cup.

IDK Euskotren has lost in Ibaeta to the Innova-TSN Leganés (60-73), the Lointek Gernika Bizkaia has lost to the Spar Gran Canaria (87-74) and the Kutxabank Araski has lost by a single point to the Movistar Estudiantes (75-76).

The Vitorians have done a great first part, and in the second they have prevented Barcelona from going back, sending the match to the extension three times.

Paolo Galbiati's team will face Barcelona, who have won ten of the eleven matches they have played since the dismissal of Joan Peñarroya, while the Basque team will seek their first visitor victory in the Euroleague.

The French team is the current champion and the main candidate to win again. The one-way match will be played on Thursday 15 January in Maloste and the return on Thursday 22 in France.

The Vitoria team won the Monaco team, making it their sixth straight home victory.

In the second phase of the tournament, the Basque team has played two games, and has won both, winning on the Slovak team's court.

Lucas Fernández's players have been chasing on the scoreboard throughout the game and have suffered terribly to get the pass to the next round.

On the sixteenth day of the Euroleague, the Basque team will receive the fifth ranked in the tournament.

The three Basque teams have had a difficult weekend, and defeats have tightened the fight for the Cup stalls even further.

The men in black have won with great superiority, even though they have played an equal game at first, but they have ended up with a strong local push.

After leading Baskonia in his last season, the Vitorian will take the reins of the two-time Euroleague champion.

An inspired Howard put the whites in trouble in the last quarter, but it wasn't enough to avoid another Alavés defeat outside the house.

The Biscayans have easily won the first round of the championship, gaining 19 points of advantage for next Wednesday's return match at the Lauber Dezso Sport Hall in Hungary.