Bballzone Time No. 16 2011 September-October

Description of the sixteenth issue

The team of the Bballzone Time is glad to present the 16th issue of our newspaper. As long as our team numbers few members, we are giving over the 100% of our strength to present a fresh and interesting newspaper to our readers.

So, we continue introducing new communities to you in every number. We will present the United Kingdom's community of our game in this issue.

You'll be also able to read some interesting interviews, and many interesting facts related to the real basketball game.

You‘ll find information about some very interesting facts about our game, which will review the updates in the records system and create a fantasy All-Star game.

You can also read some good jokes and funny quotes relative to the sport of basketball in our "Jokes section".

You can participate in our traditional contests "True or false" and "History of Basketball". You will be able to find the answers and results from the last issue of the newspaper, and also the questions for the next rounds.

Announcement from the editors!

You are invited to join Bballzone Time team. All you have to do is write an interesting article and give it to the editors. Or maybe you think you could improve the appearance of the newspaper?

You have a chance to receive Premium package (from 1 week to 1 month, depending on number and complexity of articles you write).

If you are a member from Estonia, Latvia, USA, Italy, Russia, France or United Kingdom, You are invited to join our Bballzone time team as a special reporter in your country. We already have special country reporters in Lithuania and Greece.

Just write a message to the head editor of the English version of our newspaper – redmadness7 (team Redmadness BC, Greece. 1.1 league) and he will explain everything more detailed.

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Articles

Description of countries 3-4 - United Kingdom.

Interesting facts 5-8 - Updates in system of records. - Fantasy All-Star Game in BBallzone.

Leisure section 9 - Jokes about basketball and funny quotes.

Contest "History of Basketball" 10-13 - Results and questions for the next tour. - Presentation of non-Lithuanian winner.

Contest "True or false" 14-15 - Results and questions for the next tour.

In the next issue of the newspaper 16 - Summary of the next issue of the newspaper

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Description of countries

United Kingdom (Article by: redmadness7)

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Northern Ireland at 1.78 million, with much lower Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, population densities than England. the UK or Britain) is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. The The UK is a developed country and has the world's country includes the island of Great Britain, the sixth-largest economy by nominal GDP and seventh- north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many largest economy by purchasing power parity. It was smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the world's first industrialized country and the the UK that shares a land border with another world's foremost power during the 19th and early sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. 20th centuries. The UK remains a great power with leading economic, cultural, military, scientific and The United Kingdom is a unitary state governed political influence. under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system, with its seat of government in the capital The Great Britain men's national basketball team is th city of London. It is a country in its own right and in the 56 place in the FIBA World ranking. Great consists of four countries: England, Northern Britain has participated two times in European Ireland, Scotland and Wales. There are three Championships (2009, 2011), and one time in the devolved national administrations, each with varying Olympic Games of 1948 without showing any powers, situated in Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh; special results. The current governing body for the the capitals of Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland Great Britain team was formed by the national respectively. Associated with the UK, but not basketball organizations of England, Scotland and constitutionally part of it, are three Crown Wales on 1 December 2005 in order to provide a Dependencies and fourteen overseas territories. competitive team for international competition. This These are remnants of the British Empire which, at structure does not include the basketball association its height in 1922, encompassed almost a quarter of of Northern Ireland; Northern Irish players normally the world's land surface and was the largest empire represent the Ireland national basketball team, in history. British influence can still be observed in though they are also eligible to compete for Great the language, culture and legal systems of many of Britain and Northern Ireland at the Olympic Games. its former territories. Its best-known player is NBA small forward Luol Deng. England's population in mid-2008 was estimated to be 51.44 million. It is one of the most densely Did you know that: populated countries in the world, with 383 people The first “hoops” were actually just peach resident per square kilometer in mid-2003, with a baskets and the first backboards were made particular concentration in London and the south of wire. east. The mid-2008 estimates put Scotland's population at 5.17 million, Wales at 2.99 million and

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United Kingdom's community in Bballzone redmadness7: What do you think about this consisting 4 divisions (15 leagues), with a total of manager game? Which features of the game do you 180 clubs. like and which you don't?

United Kingdom.1.1 started at Season 7 and the Wajdaz1: I think it's the best basketball manager most successful teams are "Kings Of Tomorrow" online at the moment, as I had tried some other with 9 total titles, winning also last season's popular ones before and to be honest I didn't really championship. like it at all. I like pretty much everything about this basketball manager apart from maybe being added a In the World League the best United Kingdom's bit more features for the basic users. teams, six in number, are in the third division and competing hard for the places leading to the higher redmadness7: Tell us something about your team one. and your goals for the future.

The highest sponsored team in United Kingdom's Wajdaz1: Like I mentioned before, I've been playing leagues is the team "Kings Of Tomorrow" which is this game from season 7 and I've had some joyful getting 90474 Eu. moments along with frustrating ones. I'm glad to have more competition in the national league, as The best United Kingdom's player is Joe Hanna (C, when I first started playing there were only one real 218cm, 31y.) who is playing for the club "London team in the league - the Condors. I've been United" in United KIngdom.1.1 league and his desperately trying to advance to the World League overall rating is 359. He is also the best player 2, as I've been stuck in the World League 3 from the playing in United Kingdom's leagues and the most time the World League was created. Maybe this well-paid player by getting a salary of 47047 Eu. season I will get lucky.

We had the opportunity to have a talk with redmadness7: Do you play basketball in your free Wajdaz1− the manager of "Kings Of Tomorrow", time? Is basketball your favourite sport? the most successful one from the United Kingdom's community. Wajdaz1: It definitely is my favourite sport and yes I do play it now and again, not as much as I used to redmadness7: Hello. Please introduce yourself. though - perhaps I'm getting old.

Wajdaz1: My name is Vaidas, I'm 27 years old. redmadness7: Which is your favorite team and who Originally from Lithuania, but I'm a permanent is your favorite player? resident of the UK now. I must admit - I do love basketball. I also like football. Wajdaz1: My favourite team is Zalgiris and favourite player Sarunas Jasikevicius. In NBA - LA redmadness7: How did you start playing this Lakers and legendary Michael Jordan. manager game? redmadness7: Thank you and have a good game. Wajdaz1: I was looking for apps on my old nokia phone and accidently discovered this basketball Wajdaz1: Thanks for the interview. Good luck. manager. If my memory doesn't deceive me, I started playing it from season 7.

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Interesting Facts

Updates in system of records (Article by: redmadness7)

In season 25 some serious updates have been done in the system of records. We are going to review these updates and give the opportunity to non-PREMIUM users to check up some of this season's records.

The previous records' system appeared to be inappropriate: - Records were not set in the international tournament. - Records used to include even those matches that were played with bogus opponents. So, records could be improved only when playing with bot teams. Records became a part of the game that uses lots of server's resources but it is mostly not used by anybody. Therefore, updates here were necessary.

The new records' system - Records are set in both - national and international leagues' matches. - Records are set only in the matches where both playing teams are managed by real users and RT difference between the teams (of the players that played in the match) is not bigger than 50RT. - Clubs will be informed of improved records over team news. - Records set in the match and not improved yet, will be displayed in the page of the match. - As the system of setting records has changed, old records were deleted.

According to the new system, records were been set from the beginning of this season (25). - Records' system will remain a PREMIUM feature. Also two more small features appeared in the game for PREMIUM users: - In players' statistics page, each player's +/- statistics is displayed. - In match information page, average RT of players who were in court is displayed.

As long as these updates were been set from the beginning of season 25, we are going to present to you some of the individual and club records, which were recorded during this regular season in the highest national and world league divisions.

Did you know that: Two leagues called the National Basketball League (NBL) and the Basketball Association of America (BAA) merged after the 1948-49 season to become today's National Basketball Association (NBA).

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We have collected records from national leagues of Lithuania, Greece, Italy, USA, UK, France, Russia, Latvia and Estonia, and compared them making the TOP3 in every individual category of statistics. Let's see the best individual performances in each category.

Points made in a single match Reb L Blo No N. Surname Team Trd Min Pts 2 M/A 3 M/A 1 M/A Ast St To Rkg +/- Match Def Off Tot Rv Cm FV AG 1 L. Lopes R.I.P 74% 40 43 12/18 66.7% 6/9 66.7% 1/1 100% 3 0 3 0 0 5 3 1 1 0 39 -23 R.I.P - Klaipeda-93 (98:75) 2 C. Troulialis Red Warriors 67% 29.5 39 10/14 71.4% 5/7 71.4% 4/4 100% 0 1 1 7 0 6 3 1 1 0 44 50 Red Warriors - A.E.K (125:75) 3 M. Hughes All Out Attack 74% 32.2 39 12/16 75% 3/6 50% 6/7 85.7% 5 1 6 1 1 5 2 1 0 1 40 8 Kings Of Tomorrow - All Out Attack (113-107) Rebounds in a single match Reb L Blo No N. Surname Team Trd Min Pts 2 M/A 3 M/A 1 M/A Ast St To Rkg +/- Match Def Off Tot Rv Cm FV AG 1 I. Dubé Mugiwara 91% 40 14 4/5 80% 1/2 50% 3/5 60% 13 5 18 2 4 5 3 3 0 0 33 -5 Perak Proton Sport - Mugiwara (79:74) 2 F. Regoli Fanta Moroz 73% 37.9 12 6/9 66.7% 0/0 0% 0/0 0% 14 2 16 1 0 1 2 2 1 0 24 21 Fanta Moroz - Flying Foxes ( 95:71) 3 S. Krasnov p3ndulum 100% 37.3 6 3/7 42.9% 0/0 0% 0/0 0% 10 6 16 1 1 3 4 1 1 1 18 11 p3ndulum - BC "VICTORY" (74:57) Assists made in a single match Reb L Blo No N. Surname Team Trd Min Pts 2 M/A 3 M/A 1 M/A Ast St To Rkg +/- Match Def Off Tot Rv Cm FV AG 1 A. Elksnītis Ant-T 100% 40 9 2/5 40% 0/1 0% 5/6 83.3% 2 0 2 17 0 5 4 0 0 1 23 36 Ant-T - Ventspils Vilki (111:75) 2 P. Kwame-agede Kings Of Tomorrow 84% 36.9 13 5/6 83.3% 0/0 0% 3/3 100% 1 1 2 16 2 3 3 3 0 0 29 17 Kings Of Tomorrow - All Out Attack (113-107) 3 M. Orro Oscar13 80% 28.3 14 3/5 60% 1/2 50% 5/5 100% 1 0 1 14 3 2 0 3 1 3 26 11 Tartu rock - Oscar13 (72:82) Steals made in a single match Reb L Blo No N. Surname Team Trd Min Pts 2 M/A 3 M/A 1 M/A Ast St To Rkg +/- Match Def Off Tot Rv Cm FV AG 1 C. Johnson Upslased 100% 32.9 12 4/8 50% 1/3 33.3% 1/2 50% 0 0 0 8 24 4 5 5 1 1 31 15 noobid - Upslased (76:72) 2 K. Labedz Red Kazanka 100% 29.6 11 5/7 71.4% 0/1 0% 1/2 50% 0 2 2 8 16 3 5 1 0 1 29 25 Red Kazanka - Pivovar (83:82) 3 N. O'fovre S.C.M. 66% 21.1 8 3/6 50% 0/0 0% 2/4 50% 2 0 2 6 15 7 3 3 1 0 28 17 BBgaby - S.C.M. (71:77) Blocks made in a single match Reb L Blo No N. Surname Team Trd Min Pts 2 M/A 3 M/A 1 M/A Ast St To Rkg +/- Match Def Off Tot Rv Cm FV AG 1 S. Matkovic Политех 100% 32.3 5 1/5 20% 1/1 100% 0/2 0% 3 2 5 1 1 2 1 5 7 0 9 -2 Политех - Yellow Submarine (81:68) 2 R. Renaux Mugiwara 76% 34.8 17 7/13 53.8% 0/2 0% 3/3 100% 1 3 4 3 1 2 4 1 5 1 18 26 Mugiwara - BBgaby (94:62) 3 A. Gonson Difference 64% 31.4 11 4/6 66.7% 0/1 0% 3/5 60% 4 4 8 1 0 3 3 0 5 0 20 25 TheDifference - London City (80:57) Ranking achieved in a single match Reb L Blo No N. Surname Team Trd Min Pts 2 M/A 3 M/A 1 M/A Ast St To Rkg +/- Match Def Off Tot Rv Cm FV AG 1 K. Raudsoo noobid 100% 34.4 32 9/12 75% 4/6 66.7% 2/4 50% 2 0 2 11 13 9 3 2 1 1 55 57 Harvick.Inc. - noobid (64:105) 2 Г. Фадеев Patriots 60% 24.8 38 14/14 100% 2/2 100% 4/6 66.7% 5 1 6 4 7 3 1 2 1 0 54 25 Patriots - TIM-99 (113:80) 3 S. Guichard Gabo jumpers 100% 38 28 11/18 61.1% 1/1 100% 3/4 75% 2 1 3 11 9 6 2 1 1 0 47 24 Gabo jumpers - BBgaby (97:73) Triple-Double Figure Reb L Blo No N. Surname Team Trd Min Pts 2 M/A 3 M/A 1 M/A Ast St To Rkg +/- Match Def Off Tot Rv Cm FV AG 1 K. Raudsoo noobid 100% 34.4 32 9/12 75% 4/6 66.7% 2/4 50% 2 0 2 11 13 9 3 2 1 1 55 57 Harvick.Inc. - noobid (64:105)

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There are also the clubs' records for this regular season compared from national leagues of Lithuania, Greece, Italy, USA, UK, France, Russia, Latvia and Estonia in every individual category of team statistics.

Points made in a single match Oscar13 132 vs Harvick.Inc. Eesti.1.1 Blocks made in a single match Политех 17 vs Yellow Submarine Россия.1.1 Assists made in a single match Oscar13 35 vs Harvick.Inc. Eesti.1.1 Defensive rebounds in a single match Patriots 36 vs TIM-99 Россия.1.1 Offensive rebounds in a single match Harvick.Inc. 24 vs Oscar13 Eesti.1.1 Steals made in a single match Oscar13 48 vs Harvick.Inc. Eesti.1.1 Ranking achieved in a single match Oscar13 189 vs Harvick.Inc. Eesti.1.1 Accurate 3-pointers in a single match Klaipeda-93 19 vs BCZalgiris Lietuva.1.1 Accurate 2-pointers in a single match CCSMilano 49 vs Flying Foxes Italia.1.1 Rebounds in a single match Slatington Serpents 44 vs Bridgeport Ballers United States.1.1 Rebounds in a single match Yellow Submarine 44 vs Oren56 Россия.1.1 Finally, we will give you a sample of the way the records are presented in the game, especially if you are a non- Premium user and haven't ever seen them. Players' and clubs' records for World league 1.1. regular season 25 are the following:

WL1.1 Players Records

Season's records Title Records over the whole history

Etalonas S. Marėnas 38 Points made in a single match 38 S. Marėnas Etalonas (S 25) Gaudytojai N. Kvasas 4 Blocks made in a single match 4 N. Kvasas Gaudytojai (S 25) Etalonas K. Stepsys 16 Assists made in a single match 16 K. Stepsys Etalonas (S 25) BCZali V. Butkus 14 Defensive rebounds in a single match 14 V. Butkus BCZali (S 25) BCZali V. Butkus 7 Offensive rebounds in a single match 7 V. Butkus BCZali (S 25) BC Giles A. Paškevičius 9 Steals made in a single match 9 A. Paškevičius BC Giles (S 25) kobe n1 E. Marcolini 42 Ranking achieved in a single match 42 E. Marcolini kobe n1 (S 25) Linksmai K. Beržas 6 Accurate 3-pointers in a single match 6 K. Beržas Linksmai (S 25) Naviglio T O. Gabrieli 11 Accurate 2-pointers in a single match 11 O. Gabrieli Naviglio T (S 25) LTU-Lakers T. Macijauskas 17 Rebounds in a single match 17 T. Macijauskas LTU-Lakers (S 25)

WL1.1 Clubs Records Records over the Season's records Title whole history Gaudytojai 118 Points made in a single match 118 Gaudytojai (S 25) Ant bajeri 9 Blocks made in a single match 9 Ant bajeri (S 25) BC Paupis 28 Assists made in a single match 28 BC Paupis (S 25) ASK/VEF Ri 29 Defensive rebounds in a single match 29 ASK/VEF Ri (S 25) BC Giles 14 Offensive rebounds in a single match 14 BC Giles (S 25) BC Giles 37 Steals made in a single match 37 BC Giles (S 25) Gaudytojai 158 Ranking achieved in a single match 158 Gaudytojai (S 25) Klp93 18 Accurate 3-pointers in a single match 18 Klp93 (S 25) BC TrY 38 Accurate 2-pointers in a single match 38 BC TrY (S 25) Miami Rain 34 Rebounds in a single match 34 Miami Rain (S 25)

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Fantasy All-Star Game in Bballzone (Article by: redmadness7)

Many times some users are arguing about the "Lithuanian" way of Bballzone. Some users are complaining about the advantages of Lithuanians and the disadvantages of the rest of the world. I decided to put this argument in the court. How about an All-Star game between Lithuanian stars and Rest of the World? Who haven't the curiosity of such a game and the final score of it? The following lineups, by the best RT players in the game in the end of this regular season, could be the possible teams. Let me present them to you.

REST OF WORLD (avg. RT=363) Initials Team League RT Pos Age Hgt Athl Def Off Acc Pot 1 Antonio Grimaldi Naviglio Ticinese Italia.1.1 383 C 30 218 11 10 9 8 10 2 Luís Lopes Klaipeda-93 Lietuva.1.1 376 PF 29 210 11 6 6 11 10 3 Elifio Marcolini kobe n1 Italia.1.1 368 SF 31 203 10 8 9 9 9 4 Kurt Dasher Bedford Mules United States.1.1 377 SG 29 194 10 9 10 9 10 5 Corey Davis Miami Rainbow1 United States.1.1 349 PG 30 182 10 8 10 8 10 6 Carlo Bruno Naviglio Ticinese Italia.1.1 350 SG 29 198 10 6 9 10 9 7 Jagoda Chopp BC Šilainiai Lietuva.1.1 351 SG 30 201 9 6 10 10 9 8 John Karydis Gaudytojai Lietuva.1.1 350 SF 30 204 10 6 10 9 10 9 Игорь Дорошко BC Šilainiai Lietuva.1.1 358 PF 31 208 10 8 8 9 10 10 Gregory Burton Miami Rainbow1 United States.1.1 357 PF 29 207 10 9 9 8 10 11 Ausilio Gentile The President Italia.1.1 376 C 31 219 10 10 9 8 10 12 Lucas Kaiow kobe n1 Italia.1.1 364 C 30 220 10 9 9 7 10 LITHUANIA (avg. RT=360) Initials Team League RT Pos Age Hgt Athl Def Off Acc Pot 1 Tautvydas Leišis The FeniX Lietuva.2.2 369 C 31 224 10 8 10 7 9 2 Romas Jasaitis Gaudytojai Lietuva.1.1 362 PF 30 211 10 3 7 12 9 3 Jonas Staniulis Paradoksas Lietuva.4.4 352 SF 29 203 9 9 10 8 9 4 Mažvydas Niekūnas Jumpin' elniai Lietuva.4.1 359 SG 29 199 10 9 10 8 10 5 Mantas Juška Klaipeda-93 Lietuva.1.1 361 PG 29 189 10 6 11 8 9 6 Darius Mameniskis R.I.P Lietuva.1.1 356 PG 31 194 10 8 10 7 9 7 Dalius Gabenis Telšių Džiugas Lietuva.1.1 358 SG 31 193 10 6 8 10 9 8 Jonas Domarkas R.I.P Lietuva.1.1 350 SF 31 204 10 6 7 11 9 9 Astijus Puodžiūnas Telšių Džiugas Lietuva.1.1 361 PF 29 209 11 9 8 8 9 10 Edvardas Paliušis Laguuna Lietuva.5.15 361 PF 29 209 10 8 9 10 10 11 Traidenis Pelys Papū masažas Lietuva.1.1 365 C 31 216 10 9 8 8 10 12 Rimas Krimša R.I.P Lietuva.1.1 363 C 31 221 11 9 6 8 9 There were some better players also, but as long as the best players in the game are forwards-centers, and every team needs every position to be filled up, I selected these lineups. What would be the score? Is there so big difference between them? The conclusions are yours...

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Leisure Section

Jokes about basketball (Article by: redmadness7)

Funny Quotes

"These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it." Charles Barkley

"I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years Q:What do cheerleaders drink before they go to a before that, either." basketball game? Dave Barry A: Root beer! "The secret is to have eight great players and four    others who will cheer like crazy." Jerry Tarkanian Q: Why do basketball players love cookies? A: Because they can dunk them! "Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up."    Bill Vaughn

At mid-point during a game, the coach calls one of "Magic Johnson is the best player who plays on the his 7-year-old basketball players aside to talk with ground, and Michael Jordan is the best player who him. The coach asks, "Do you understand what plays in the air." cooperation is, and what a team is?" The little boy replies, "Yes." John Paxson "Do you also understand that what matters is not whether we win or lose, but how we play together as a team?" The little boy nods his head. "So," the coach continues, "I'm sure you know, when a foul is called, you shouldn't argue, curse, or attack the referee. Do you understand all that?" Again the little boy nods his head yes. "And when I call you off the court so that another teammate gets a chance to play, it's not good sportsmanship to call your coach a jackass, now is it?" The little boy answered, "No, sir." "Good," said the coach, "Now please go over and explain all of that to your mother."

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Contests Contest "History of Basketball" (Organizer: arix2)

7th round questions and correct answers: Winners of 7th round:

1. What player has the most assists in the history of 1st place - kryziuotis (team R.I.P, Lietuva.1.1 league) Euroleague? 2nd place - M&M's (team TExAS, Lietuva.4.7 league) Answer: Theo Papaloukas. 3rd place - Aurimas. (team BC Lizards, Lietuva.4.3 league) 2. What player has played in the most NBA playoffs games? All these users receive Premium package for 2 Answer: Robert Horry. weeks. 3. What team was previously the Oklahoma City Thunder?

Answer: Seattle SuperSonics.

4. What is the nickname of Andrei Kirilenko? Answer: AK - 47.

5. What team has won the most Baltic Basketball League titles? Answer: Žalgiris Kaunas.

6. What player has the most 60+ points games in the history of the NBA? Answer: Wilt Chamberlain. Did you know that: 7. What teams have played in the longest NBA game On March 2, 1962, which occurred on January 6, 1951 and took six Philadelphia center Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 overtimes to be decided? points in one game Answer: Indianapolis Olympians and Rochester against New York. That Royals. is the most one player has ever scored in one 8. What female player is the only one in WNBA game. history to have recorded 5+ in each of the points, rebounds, assists, blocks, and steals statistical categories.? Answer: Candace Parker.

9. For what team was Dirk Nowitzki playing in Germany before the NBA? Answer: DJK Würzburg.

10. Who is the current head coach of the Miami Heat? Answer: Erik Spoelstra.

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Rules of the contest Questions of 8th round:

You have to send private message with all your 1. Which country was champion of European answers to arix2, the team is called Lidva, Lietuva Basketball Championship and African Basketball 4.7 league. Championship?

The first three, who get all the correct answers will 2. Which NBA player won the most NBA be rewarded with 2 week„s Premium package. If no Championship titles during his career? one gets it right then the ones with the most correct answers will be rewarded instead. 3. What player has the most rebounds in the history of Euroleague? There is a separate prize for the best non- Lithuanian user that gets the most points. He will 4. How many times Greece was European Basketball be given 1 week„s Premium package and an Championship Champion? opportunity to present his club in our newspaper. 5. What is the nickname of Glen Davis? In order to get the points you have to get the name and the surname correct without any spelling 6. For what team was Yao Ming playing in China mistakes. As the questions are pretty difficult, don‟t before the NBA? forget to send the answers even if you don’t 7. What player has the most defensive rebounds in manage to answer them all. Even a few correct the history of the NBA? answers can bring a prize for you! 8. What player was NBA Finals MVP (1977)? Good luck! 9. What Lithuanian player was elected to Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame?

10. What female player has the most blocks in the history of the WNBA?

Did you know that: Michael Jordan scored 16 points in his first official game for Chicago Bulls and the public loved him and became a star right away.

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Presentation of non-Lithuanian Winner (Article by: redmadness7)

Some time ago, LucaBadoer was the best non- redmadness7: Tell us something about your team and Lithuanian user in the contest of "History of your goals for the future. Basketball" and got the opportunity to present himself and his club to our newspaper. LucaBadoer: My goals? Get to the top tier and be competitive along with the established teams. I want redmadness7: Hello and congratulations for being to win three titles in three seasons to get there, but amongst the winners of our contest. Please once I am in the top tier I do not expect to instantly introduce yourself. be competitive. There will be a gradual curve, hopefully my young guns like Bourdais, Favre and LucaBadoer: I'm Alasdair from near Glasgow in Boote will have come of age by then. This is actually Scotland. My first love is Inter Milan, and the second time I've played the game - the first time I motorsports. Even though I am Scottish a certain made it to 1.1 quite quickly but then I gave up for part of me is Italian in a way; I am one of the tifosi. reasons I don't remember anymore. It means I This also explains why I'm a fan of Benetton Basket - already know the game a bit but I still need to learn I first got to know them when Benetton were in F1. more. redmadness7: How did you start playing this redmadness7: Is basketball your favourite sport? Do manager game? you play basketball in your free time? LucaBadoer: I found out about the game while LucaBadoer: Is Basketball my favourite sport? I playing another online basketball game called must be honest and say no, it's not really up there. I Basketsim, maybe some people here have heard of it follow NBA and Eurobasket a little bit but things like - so far I'm a lot more successful there than here! Formula One, World Rally Championship, Serie A, While I'm kicking about the lower leagues in Champions League are all important to me - maybe BBallZone, I'm in the top tier there and also as you can tell from my username! If you look at the managing the UK U18s National Team. club presentation you will see the team uses the redmadness7: What do you think about Bballzone? colours and logo of F.C. Internazionale Milano, a What features do you like and what you don't? team I have supported since I was a little boy. As for playing? Unfortunately my height restricts how LucaBadoer: A bad part of Basketsim is the effective I am, I'm a bit too short to be a decent ridiculous inflation of the economy - in a way basketball player - my three pointers and quick BBallZone has some small problems there too, but passing are my best attributes. But opposing defense overall the market system is much fairer. The only can set records for defensive rebounds when I'm problem is you are only allowed 5 foreign players their opposing player, it's quite ridiculous how bad I and the rest must be homegrown, a rule which gives am at 2 pointers! Lithuanian teams much better chances to succeed.

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redmadness7: Which is your favourite team and who is redmadness7: Would you like to add anything your favourite player? more?

LucaBadoer: Like I said, my favourite team is LucaBadoer: As a parting suggestion, what about an Benetton Basket, which obviously hasn't been a all-star teams' game? The best 10 Lithuanian great thing lately. Siena have been kicking ten colors players versus the best 10 players from the rest of of **** out of everyone in Italy for the last decade. the world. Would be great to see which is better! Although my favourite player would have to be from the NBA - and in a weird kind of twisted way it's redmadness7: Thank you for the interview and Luke Walton. Why? Because it's so fun to laugh at good luck. how pathetic he is!

Did you know that: Slam dunks were deemed illegal in 1967. That lasted nine years

and came back for the

1976-1977 season.

Did you know that: The game became an official Olympic event at the Summer Games in Berlin, Germany in 1936.

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Contest "True or false" (Organizer: marozas)

A new newspaper’s number made its appearance, so Answers of 8th round: here you'll find the next round's questions and the 1. That 1956 years NBA champions is winners of the previous one. Probably, you were Philadelphia's "Warriors"? - True waiting for the time when we will name the winners 2. That Kevin Garnett nickname is "Human Highlight Film"? - False of contest's seventh round, and expecting to see 3. That Ray Allen's nickname is "The Truth"? - yourself amongst them. So, congratulations in False advance for those who are winners, and we suggest 4. That Dejan Bodiroga has won two European to those who failed to try once again. We also invite championship medals? - False everyone to participate actively in the next round, all 5. That Tony Parker in the 2000 years bought the users of our game, not only the Lithuanians, but a 30% Antibes Olympique (France) club the foreigners too. stock? - True 6. That Theodoras Papaloukas has won 6

Russian champion titles? - True th 7. The lowest NBA player, which win NBA Winners of the 7 round: st Slam dunk contest is Nate Robinson? - False 1 place - edwiz., "Jordans" - receives a Premium 8. That the brothers Lavrinovic were sitting in package for one month. the jail? - True 2nd place - Kipsiux, "KK Filosofai" - receives a 9. That most valuable player in the 2001 years Premium package for two weeks. Euroleague Final Four is Emanuel 3rd place - kryziuotis, "R.I.P" - receives a Premium Ginobili? - True package for two weeks. 10. That VTB League champions are Moscow's CSKA club? - False

Did you know that: Basketball was invented by James Naismith in 1891. James Naismith was an Canadian physical education instructor at a YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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Rules of the contest: Questions of 9th round:

1. The contest is not available for the Bballzone True or false, that: Time newspaper's members, administrators and all others people who have access to the forum of the 1. That Tracy McGrady was picked by Houston Rockets in NBA draft? newspaper's team. 2. That Cleveland Cavaliers has won NBA title one time? 2. Answers must be sent to the user marozas by a 3. That Real Madrid club is called royal? personal message. 4. That Chicago Bulls was the last team that Michael Jordan played in? 3. Answers cannot be edited. 5. That the president of NCAA is Myles Bland? 6. That in season 2009/2010 Efes Pilsen became 4. Answers can be sent only once, otherwise they the champion of the Turkish basketball league? will not be examined. 7. That Donatas Motiejunas is currently playing in a Polish club? 5. Winners will be announced in the next 8. That Rimantas Kaukenas has played in newspaper‟s issue. No personal messages will be Barcelona club? sent. 9. That Linas Kleiza was wearing the shirt with number 34 in Denver Nuggets? Winners will be the first three with most correct 10. That Darius Songaila is currently playing in a answers. Prizes are the following: Spanish club?

1st place – Premium package of 1 month.

2nd place – Premium package of 2 weeks. Good luck! 3rd place – Premium package of 2 weeks.

Did you know that: Ron Artest pulled Paul Pierce‟s shorts down while defending him in a game. Paul Pierce quickly made a 3-pointer.

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In the next issue of the newspaper:

We will present to you some other community of our game. You will be able to find more interesting information about our manager and the sport of basketball. You will be able to participate to our contests and win some prizes.

Attention! If you have any interesting information about our game, please introduce us, the members of newspaper, with it. We will do everything that this information will be published.

This newspaper’s English version was created by:

Redmadness7 – head editor of the newspaper, author of articles, Greek 1.1 league’s expert. Marozas – organizer of contest "True or false?". Rudupis – consultant of the newspaper, Lithuanian.1.1 league's expert. Arix2 – organizer of contest "History of Basketball". Easy1 – author of "Did you Know that" texts. a-darius – the main consultant of the newspaper. a-ramune – this edition of the newspaper would not be added to this game wihout her.

Contacts of newspaper are: e-mail: [email protected] (team Redmadness BC, Greek.1.1 league) – only in English. Also, you can to send the personal message to every member of our newspaper’s team.

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