The Luxembourg Basketball Academy athletes and their staff traveled to Kaunas, Lithuania, and participated in EYBL third stage held from 20 to 23 February 2014.



Coach Ristic can be satisfied about the results. Apart from a tough game against Russian team BS Samara, his athletes’ performance did indeed not go unnoticed as they secured two wins against BA Tallinn Kalev (Tallinn, Estonia) and BC Runa (Moscow, Russia). Furthermore, they only suffered a one point loss against BC Liepaja (Liepaja, Latvia) on a buzzer shot and played an excellent game against Ventspils (Ventspils, Latvia) who could only secure the win after overtime.



LBBA’s guard Rami Ghanem has been elected MVP of the team with an average of 17.5 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists and a double-double game (31 pts, 10 reb) against BC Ventspils. All LBBA athletes have contributed to the honorable results and improved tremendously over these five intense high level games.



The LBBA Academy is proud to announce its participation in the 2014-2015 EYBL league, which will certainly be a huge challenge for our athletes but most importantly allow us to compete at top U20 European level with excellent, renowned teams. This is definitely the perfect way for our athletes to be seen and put into practice what they will and have been taught during their 9 months stay at LBBA.



The Luxembourg Basketball Academy would like to extend its profound thanks to EYBL league staff for their highly professional work as well as to the Sport Mania team and its staff for the excellent organization of the stage and its warm hospitality. We had a great time in Kaunas and are looking forward to the 2014-2015 EYBL season!