The best three from the group will continue in the second group stage of the struggle. Team which will be on the last place will have to fight for the play out 12-16th places. There will be three host cities for the European championship in Slovenia in Ljubljana, Domzhale and Krasnaya Gora.

Twenty years old Georgian basketball player Tornike Shengelia ahs broke his foot in one of the games for his Belgian club Charleroi and is forced to take a rest for at least three months. According to Tornike’s father, former player Kakha Shengelia, his son played three games with an injury and only after that he conducted medical test which have shown how serious the injury was.

Igor Kokoshkov has prolonged his contract with Georgian Basketball Federation (GBF) for another 2 years, though contract is on 2+2 terms so in case of mutual agreement it may be prolonged even farther after expiring of first term. The announcement was made by President of GBF Besik Liparteliani in Press-conference room of Courtyard Marriott in Tbilisi today.

Georgian Basketball federation (GBF) has announced its schedule for national team on its way to EuroBasket 2011. Starting from July 24 to August 30, Georgia will have few training camps in Austrian Schteinburn, Tbilisi and Klaipeda. The team will have. The team will play international friendly games with Austria, Israel, Latvia and Lithuania. Georgia will take part in two international tournaments with Estonia, Sweden, NCAA club, Netherlands and Israel.      

The captain of the Georgian national team Zaza Pachulia had played his season game in a match where Atlanta Hawks lost to Denver 87:102. Zaza was best among Hawks spending 32:35 minutes on the field and scoring 19 points with 10 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 block. Atlanta went ahead at the start of the second period by 12 points but Denver was overall better at the end of the night.        

The contract was signed between Natakhtari Company and Georgian Basketball Federation (GBF) at Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs according to which one of the beer brands of Natakhtari - Karva becomes sponsor of the GBF and National Team for the 3 years term. Press-conference was held at the Ministry where Deputy Minister Davit Namgalauri, GBF President Besik Liparteliani, National Team member Anatoly Boisa and Marketing Director of Natakhtari - Tornike Nikolaishvili answered the journalists' question.    

Olimpija from Ljubljana was able to win the Slovenian Cup 17th time in its history and members of the Georgian National Team, Giorgi Shermanidi and Vladimer Boisa were part of that victory this time.  Olimpija had to defeat Helios in easy battle which ended 92:55 in the final. Giorgi Shermadini had 12 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 turnovers and 2 blocks during his 21:53 minutes on the field. Boisa went all-4 with points, rebounds and assists.    

Tbilisi Sports Palace has hosted the final game of the Georgian Basketball Cup where teams of Georgian Army - "Army" and Ministry of Interior Affairs  - "Mia" have met. Army team had an easy game winning 71:51 and claiming its first ever title in existence. Giorgi Sharabidze has scored most with 17 points and 16 rebounds and the title of best player went to his teammate Buba Berishvili.      

Lithuania will host the next European Championship in Basketball from August 31 to September 18, 2011. The draw was held yesterday in National Drama Theatre of Vilnius. 24 teams will play in 4 groups and top 3 teams from each group will continue to participate in next round of the tournament. Georgia went to group D where its opponents will be Slovenia, Russia, Belgium, Bulgaria and Ukraine.     

September 5, 2010 may indeed be counted as a historical day for Georgian basketball as executive committee congress has increased the number of participants of European Championship next year from 16 to 24; meaning that Georgian team which claimed second place in Group C, Division A of qualification round doesn't have to play addition play-off round with 5 other teams and is automatically gaining the ticket to Lithuania.