Euroleague, FIBA Europe and FIBA World have reached an agreement on a list of joint working principles intended to improve and consolidate the future of European club basketball.

We reported the offer Efes Pilsen had made to Igor Rakocevic some days ago, and today it was made official. Igor Rakocevic will be playing for the Turkish champions for the next three seasons.

Carlo Recalcati named his early selection of players who will take part in the first part of the Italian National Team camp in Bormeo, from July 2 to 11, and besides Andrea Bargnani and Marco Belinelli, there was another name standing out, that of Shaun Stonerook.

Lottomatica Roma officially announced the extension with coach Nando Gentile for one more season. Gentile replaced Jasmin Repesa in the bench of Lottomatica.

Croatian National Team coach, Jasmin Repesa, has named 24 players in his preliminary squad, from which the final 12-men roster will be selected for the upcoming Eurobasket 2009.

Finding and signing replacement to sacked Pedro Martínez as coach of Cajasol Seville took just a week. Joan Plaza, who was with Real Madrid before being ousted of the Spanish playoff finals, will now be at the helm of Cajasol for the next year with the option of another.

Serbian basketball legend Aleksandar Djordjevic was invited to the official announcement ceremony of FIBA World Championship 2014 host nation where he was interviewd by FIBA. Spain was chosen to host World Championship and Sasha Djordjevic was happy about that as he later revealed.

Montepaschi Siena extended the contract with Shaun Stonerook for three more years. 31-year-old American forward should play for Italian champions till the end of 2011/2012 season. Stonerook himself was delighted to have signed a contract extension and hoped to win more titles in Siena.