Basketball
bwin and Union “Together for the Child”: Offer a brand new stadium for the children of Sapa Rodopi
bwin and the association “Together for the Child” have completely renovated a stadium, making a gift of great importance to children and young people in the rural Rhodope Mountains.
The most beautiful journey continues and Rhodope is the next stop of a wonderful initiative aimed at promoting the noble rivalry and the sporting ideal. The bwin and Union “Together for the Child” initiative has a second stop in 2022. The akritic Rodopi and the Intercultural Primary School of Sapon in the municipality of Maroneia-Sapon.
True to its social responsibility strategy, the internationally recognized gaming platform supports social groups in critical towns and villages in Greece. In cooperation with the association “Together for the Child”, bwin traveled to the municipality of Maroneia-Sapon in the Rodopi prefecture and implemented a project of great importance for children and young people.
The program includes the construction of five new fields in 2022, and the Sapon Intercultural Elementary School had their fault. The smiles of the 128 students accommodated in the school were the best “gift” for us and the … fuel to continue giving back to society! Let us continue to give our children sports facilities where they can learn the virtues of noble competition and the ideal of sport.
Now the students of Sapon Primary School have the opportunity to play on a brand new basketball court as a special safe carpet used in professional facilities was laid, basketball lines were created, backboards were replaced and protective layers were installed for the basketballs while the necessary nets were installed.
Out of respect for the students and the school environment, the work to complete a usable and safe playground was carried out during the summer. At the opening on October 3rd, the enthusiasm of the children and young people was great, because the orange ball can change their everyday life.
The Ambassador of bwin’s Fields Return to Society programme, Vassilis Spanoulis, was unable to attend the opening but sent a signed ball as a gift to the school. The message from everyone is that through sport, children and young people learn to respect, to play with rules and boundaries, to fight and to challenge.
The wonderful event was attended by the mayor of Maroneia – Sapon, Dinos Haritopoulos, the director of the school Sokratis Doropoulos, the president of the Union “Together for the Child” Alexandra Martinou and the director of corporate communications of bwin, Ioanna Beriou.
Alexandra Martinou, President of the Together for the Child Union said: “At Union for the Child, we work every day to offer equal opportunities to every child in every corner of Greece. In this context, with the valuable support of bwin, we have renovated another stadium. Together we offer the young students of the Intercultural Primary School of Sapon in remote Rodopi a safe environment for sport and play essential for their physical, mental and spiritual health and development We are delighted to have been able to deliver over 3,000 sqm with the kind support of bwin . stadiums in different parts of our country and we move on!”.
Ioanna Beriou, Director of Corporate Communications at bwin Greece, said: “We are proud of this project, which implements the reconstruction of stadiums across Greece. In the last two years we have rebuilt a total of eight stadiums, two in Didymoteicho, three in Samothraki, one in Kiato, Corinthia. We are very pleased to have delivered the completely renovated stadium of the Intercultural Primary School of Sapa. The aim of bwin is to give every child in the country access to sport and to “give back” modern, safe and functional stadiums to society.
All of us at bwin believe that sport knows no borders and that all children should have equal opportunities when it comes to sport and fun, regardless of the geographic region they live in. We want to achieve our goal: to give the stadiums back to society where they belong.”
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Source: sport 24
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True, his team was left without a victory.
Over the past year, fans have become accustomed to news about records coming from overseas. Until recently, their main supplier was hockey player Alexander Ovechkin. But in the 2025/26 season, successes in the NBA were added to the achievements of our athletes in the NHL. This became possible thanks to the play of Yegor Demin, who again played a great match the day before with the Brooklyn Nets.
If the Russian does not slow down, then in the future, like Ovechkin, he has every chance to go down in the history of North American sports.
On the way to a dream
Russian representation in the NBA has always been more modest than in the NHL. And even with certain achievements, and Timofey Mozgov and Alexander Kaun, by the way, became league champions, the thought does not arise to compare the successes of Russian hockey players and basketball players overseas. How many American basketball fans now remember Sergei Monya, Yaroslav Korolev, Pavel Podkolzin?
Only Andrei Kirilenko stands out from the general background – the Russian forward played in the NBA for quite a long time. I even once went to an all-star game, where I played side by side with people like Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal, Tim Duncan, Dirk Nowitzki, Yao Ming, Allen Iverson. But how many star matches did our hockey players have overseas?
With all due respect to the AK-47 game, he still does not reach the level of a North American basketball legend. Time will tell whether Yegor Demin, who powerfully broke into the NBA at the age of 19, will be able to write his name into history. But for now, the Brooklyn Nets basketball player is doing everything possible to make his dream come true.
Prolific newcomer
Kirilenko was selected by the Utah Jazz in the first round of the NBA draft as the 24th pick, and Brooklyn took Demin eighth. But these were still advances, which have so far been fully justified. The newcomer regularly appears on the court, and with the exception of the first couple of weeks of the season, in the starting lineup. At the same time, Egor is not just serving his number: in the last six matches he scored at least 14 points, in two cases he reached the 20 point mark.
In the next regular season game, the first basketball player in the league with the letter “e” on his uniform scored 23 points in the match against Golden State. Demin managed not only to repeat his best result, but also set a Brooklyn record for three-pointers among newcomers – seven accurate hits from behind the arc. True, the Russian team still lost with a score of 107:120, but in the context of the personal success of our basketball player overseas, this is a secondary issue.
Of course, to achieve sporting greatness, Egor needs to spend more than one season at this level, but at least a dozen and a half. Demin, with 275 points in the NBA, did not even reach the results of Sergei Karasev (287), although he can do this in the next game. And then new landmarks will appear: Viktor Khryapa (643), Alexey Shved (1349), Timofey Mozgov (3072) and, of course, Andrey Kirilenko (9431). When the Russian surpasses the results of the AK-47, then we can talk about an established star in the NBA. In the meantime, we can only wish our basketball player not to lower his demands on himself and avoid serious injuries.
Source: Sportbox
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Basketball
Vembanyama’s double-double did not help San Antonio avoid defeat from Cleveland in the NBA match
San Antonio lost to Cleveland in a home game of the NBA regular season.
The meeting ended with a score of 113:101 (25:26, 24:29, 27:23, 37:23) in favor of the guests. The most productive player of the match was Cleveland basketball player Jarrett Allen, who scored 27 points. For San Antonio, Victor Vembanyama scored a double-double with 26 points and 14 rebounds.
Cleveland (18 wins/16 losses) is in eighth position in the Eastern Conference standings. San Antonio (23/9) is second in the West.
Results of other matches of the game day:
“Washington” — “Phoenix” — 101:115
“Charlotte” — “Milwaukee” — 113:123
“Toronto” – “Orlando” – 107:106
“Miami” — “Denver” — 147:123
“Chicago” – “Minnesota” – 101:136
“Houston” — “Indiana” — 126:119
“New Orleans” — “New York” — 125:130
“Oklahoma City” — “Atlanta” — 140:129
Portland – Dallas – 125:122
Source: Sportbox
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Russian basketball player Egor Demin set a Brooklyn record among newcomers for the number of three-pointers made in one match, the club’s press service reports.
In the NBA regular season match, Brooklyn lost to Golden State with a score of 107:120. Demin made 7 three-point shots, which is a club record among newcomers.
In total, Demin scored 23 points in the match, the Russian repeated his personal record for scoring in the NBA – he had previously scored 23 points in the November match with Philadelphia (103:115).
Brooklyn has 10 wins and 20 losses in 30 matches. Demin’s team is 12th in the Eastern Conference standings.
Source: Sportbox
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