

A proud and always ambitious club from the Slovenian capital, Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana was 2 seconds away from securing a place in the EuroCup Quarterfinals last season but was ultimately eliminated in the Top 16. There is no doubt this team will be gunning for greater heights now. An established core of home-grown players led by Jaka Blazic, the EuroCup's top overall performer last season, meshes well with a coach who also played for the club, Jurica Golemac, giving Cedevita Olimpija a strong anchor of tradition and know-how.

This season will be the third for this club after the historic merger in 2019, the first such instance of two clubs from different countries joining forces. Olimpija and Cedevita combined their respective rich histories and brought loads of silverware into this new team's trophy room. Olimpija is the winner of 17 Slovenian League crowns and 20 Slovenian Cups. It traces its history back to 1946 and adopted the name Olimpija in 1954. The team was an early power in the Yugoslav League with Ivo Daneu leading Olimpija to six domestic titles between 1957 and 1970. Slovenia's independence started a new era of success that saw Olimpija conquer league and cup trophies for 10 consecutive years. Olimpija won the Saporta Cup in 1994 and reached the 1997 EuroLeague Final Four, led by Marko Milic and Arriel McDonald. Olimpija made its EuroCup debut in 2013-14, but it wasn't until 2016-17 that it got back to its winning ways with the Slovenian League and Cup double.

Cedevita Zagreb was founded in the Croatian capital in 1991 under the name KK Botinec. The team reached the Croatian elite in 2002 and its ambitions rose when Atlantic Grupa took over in 2005 and the club changed its name to Cedevita. It rose quickly to reach the 2011 EuroCup Semifinals; Dontaye Draper was named EuroCup MVP and Aco Petrovic EuroCup Coach of the Year. A year later, Cedevita won its first title, the Croatian Cup, led by veteran forward Matjaz Smodis. Cedevita made its EuroLeague debut in the 2012-13 season and later made noise in the 2015-16 EuroLeague by reaching the Top 16.

Last season, Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana was 7-3 in the EuroCup regular season and advanced to the Top 16, but lost the chance to continue on to the quarterfinals on a tiebreaker. Now back for a third EuroCup season, this merged product of two signature clubs in the competition continues to impress.


A proud and always ambitious club from the Slovenian capital, Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana was 2 seconds away from securing a place in the EuroCup Quarterfinals last season but was ultimately eliminated in the Top 16. 

Club profile: Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana

ratiopharm Ulm reached an agreement with forward Jaron Blossomgame to work together next season, the club announced Wednesday

Ulm signs forward Blossomgame

Blossomgame (2.00 meters, 27 years old) arrives from Ironi Nahariya, where he averaged 18.5 points and 6.5 rebounds in 30 Israeli League games last season. He started his professional career with Austin of the G League and also played for Cleveland of the NBA, as well as for Canton, Rio Grande and Windy City of the G League before joining Nahariya in 2020. He helped Austin win the G League title in 2018, averaging 16.0 points and 8.0 rebounds in 54 games. Blossomgame is set to make his 7DAYS EuroCup debut with Ulm in the upcoming 2021-22 campaign.

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ratiopharm Ulm reached an agreement with forward Jaron Blossomgame to work together next season, the club announced Wednesday.

7DAYS EuroCup newcomer Hamburg Towers of Germany reinforced its backcourt on Wednesday with the signing of point guard Jaylon Brown for the upcoming season

Hamburg picks up point man Brown

Brown (1.88 meters, 26 years old) arrives from a three-season stint at Bilbao Basket of Spain, where he averaged 12.2 points and 2.3 assists over 56 games during the last two seasons in the Spanish League. He had previously helped Bilbao gain promotion in the 2018-19 season as the team's leading scorer in the second division, with 11.7 points per game. Prior to landing in Spain, Brown started his pro career at Karpos Sokoli in Northern Macedonia following four collegiate seasons at Evansville University in his native United States.

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7DAYS EuroCup newcomer Hamburg Towers of Germany reinforced its backcourt on Wednesday with the signing of point guard Jaylon Brown for the upcoming season. 



Up-and-coming Turkish club Frutti Extra Bursaspor will be competing in the 7DAYS EuroCup for the second consecutive season. In its debut, the team started with six defeats in a row before finishing the regular season on a high note, winning three of its last four games under newly arrived Coach Dusan Alimpijevic. Now, Bursaspor will return eager to make that debut experience pay off in its second EuroCup campaign.

Frutti Extra Bursaspor was founded in 2014 and started in the Turkish third division, where it placed second in the final stage and earned a jump to the second division. From there, Bursaspor brought in Dejan Borovnjak, who had 62 games of EuroLeague experience and 46 contests in the EuroCup; and Karlo Vragovic, who was a Croatian youth international and played for Cibona Zagreb in the EuroLeague. The Balkan duo carried the team to third place in the 2016-17 season. Borovnjak and Vragovic helped the team reach the second division semifinals the next season and then win the title at that level in 2018-19 to earn promotion to the Turkish top flight. Bursaspor made a strong Turkish League debut, starting 3-1 on the way to an 11-12 record for ninth place when the COVID-19 pandemic canceled the remainder of the season.

In the EuroCup last season, Bursaspor did not notch its first international victory until overtime of a late-season visit to Nanterre of France. Then it waited until the final game of the regular season to give its fans a home win and finish 3-7 on what was an upward swing by the time the team bowed out of the competition.

With one season of European experience under its belt, Bursaspor will be ready to show it belongs at this level and will look, first of all, to improve on the results from its debut campaign. Reaching the single-game elimination rounds could be Bursaspor's reward for its perseverance as it takes the EuroCup head-on.


Up-and-coming Turkish club Frutti Extra Bursaspor will be competing in the 7DAYS EuroCup for the second consecutive season.

Club profile: Frutti Extra Bursaspor

Dolomiti Energia Trento brought back a familiar face into its backcourt, getting guard Diego Flaccadori on loan from FC Bayern Munich

Trento brings back Flaccadori on-loan

Flaccadori (1.93 meters, 25 years old) returns to Trento where he previously spent five years, from 2014 to 2019. He helped Trento reach the 7DAYS EuroCup Semifinals in 2016 and the Italian League finals in 2017 and 2018. Flaccadori has made 46 EuroCup appearances with Trento, averaging 6.8 points, 1.8 assists and 1.8 rebounds. In 2019, Flaccadori left Trento to join Bayern, and has appeared in 22 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague games in each of the last two campaigns. Last season he posted 1.2 points in limited action, averaging 5:17 minutes per game. He started his career with Blu Basket Gruppo Remer Treviglio and also played for AX Armani Exchange Milan's junior team before joining Trento in 2014. Flaccadori has also been a member of the Italian national team.

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Dolomiti Energia Trento brought back a familiar face into its backcourt, getting guard Diego Flaccadori on loan from FC Bayern Munich. 

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Lithuanian side Lietkabelis Panevezys announced the addition of veteran big man Kaspars Berzins for the next season

Lietkabelis adds big man Kaspars Berzins

Berzins (2.13 meters, 36 years old) arrives from Siauliai of the Lithuanian League, where last season he averaged 11.7 points and 4.7 rebounds in 23 games. Berzins will return to the 7DAYS EuroCup for the first time since 2017. He played six seasons in the past with Barons Riga, VEF Riga, Nizhny Novgorod and Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar for a total 48 games, 427 points and 254 rebounds.

Lithuanian side Lietkabelis Panevezys announced the addition of veteran big man Kaspars Berzins for the next season.

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On Tuesday night, Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana announced big man Jackie Carmichael for the next season.

Cedevita Olimpija announces Carmichael

Carmichael (2.06 meters, 31 years old) arrives from Igokea of Bosnia, where he averaged 8.4 points, 3.8 rebounds and 1.6 assists in 24 ABA League games. In that competition, Carmichael led the team to the semifinals. Carmichael made his European debut in 2013 with Bilbao of Spain and has played in several teams since then in Israel, Russia, Turkey or France. During all those years he got to appear in three editions of the 7DAYS EuroCup. His best season was in 2015-16 with Banvit Bandirma, as he averaged 6.1 points in 13 games, reaching the eighthfinals. He has played a total 23 EuroCup games and last played with UNICS Kazan in 2018-19.

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Despite coming off an underwhelming 2020-21 7DAYS EuroCup season, Umana Reyer Venice is in the middle of a golden age. After 74 years without lifting trophies, Reyer won four titles in as many seasons from 2017 to 2020. It has made basketball more popular than ever in a unique city and Reyer hopes to make the most out of its popularity to rebound in the 2021-22 EuroCup.

Founded in 1872 as a gymnastics club, Societa Sportiva Costantino Reyer opened its basketball section in 1925. Venice won its first Italian League titles in 1942 and 1943. It was unable to match that success after World War II and by 1957 Venice dropped to the Italian second division. The club returned to the first division in the 1960s and placed fourth in 1969, 1972 and 1974. It made its European competitions debut in the 1976-77 Korac Cup. By the 1980-81 season, Venice had a powerful roster led by Drazen Dalipagic and Spencer Haywood. The club reached the Korac Cup final before losing in overtime against Joventut Badalona.

Venice remained competitive through the 1980s and the early 1990s, but the club went under financially in 1996 and had to start from the Italian fifth division in 1997. At the end of the 2010-11 season, Venice was granted a spot in the Italian first division, thus completing a sensational return to elite basketball. Venice made it to the Italian League playoffs in 2012 and 2013. Its momentum was confirmed with a berth in the 7DAYS EuroCup for 2015-16. Reyer slowly became a title contender in Italy. It finally won the domestic league again in 2016-17, for the first time in almost 75 years, and followed that with the 2017-18 FIBA Europe Cup crown. In 2018-19, the team had a strong domestic season and qualified for the playoffs, where it played all of the possible 17 games in the quarterfinals, semifinals and final to lift another Italian League trophy.

The 2019-20 campaign saw Reyer reach the EuroCup Quarterfinals, which were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The club added another highlight by defeating Brindisi in the Italian Cup final to win that trophy for the first time. Last season, Reyer fell short of the EuroCup Top 16 and did not add any trophies to its roll of honors, losing against AX Armani Exchange Milan in both the Italian League and the Italian Cup semifinals.

Reyer knows what it takes to be successful and looks ready to bounce back. Few teams will be more motivated in the 2021-22 EuroCup. With a rich cast of characters who have led Reyer to its current golden era returning, the club will look to continue making history.


Despite coming off an underwhelming 2020-21 7DAYS EuroCup season, Umana Reyer Venice is in the middle of a golden age.

Club profile: Umana Reyer Venice

Mincidelice JL Bourg en Bresse kept building its roster for the upcoming season with the announcement of forward JaCorey Williams on Tuesday

Bourg brings power with Williams

Williams (2.03 meters, 27 years old) switches 7DAYS EuroCup sides from Dolomiti Energia Trento, where last season he made his debut with 15.0 points, 7.4 rebounds and 1.1 assists in 14 games as a starter. He put an end to his season with a 27-point and 10-rebound performance at Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar to cap the Top 16. This will be his second season in the competition and first in France after also having played in Greece and Korea.



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Mincidelice JL Bourg en Bresse kept building its roster for the upcoming season with the announcement of forward JaCorey Williams on Tuesday.