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This weekend in Madrid the basketball Euroleague 2014/2015 Final Four will be played. Today, Friday, May 15, there will be the semifinals and on Sunday, May 17, there will be the finals. The semifinals are CSKA Moscow – Olympiakos Piraeus and Real Madrid – Fenerbahce Ulker Istanbul.

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Tomorrow, Saturday, April 18, 2015 the NBA playoffs 2015 are starting. In this season injuries heavily influenced some teams’ performance. The result is that three of the four Conference finalists from a year ago, Oklahoma City Thunder, Indiana Pacers and Miami Heat, haven’t reached the playoffs. Instead, all teams of the Shouthwest Division reached them, a sign of the Western Conference’s high level.

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On Tuesday April 14 the basketball Euroleague 2014/2015 quarter-finals will start. This round will be played in a playoff series to the best of five games in which the teams qualified from each group will cross path the the ones qualified from the other group. The first classified teams of each group will play the fourth classified ones of the other group and the second classified ones of each group will play the third classified ones of the other group.

Moses Malone in 2009. Derivative work from a picture including various NBA legends

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Moses Eugene Malone was born on March 23, 1955 in Petersburg, Virginia, USA. After finishing high school, he signed a letter of intent to go to the University of Maryland but then decided to become a professional basketball player and in 1974 was drafted by the Utah Stars of the ABA becoming one of the first players to skip college. He played most of his career in the NBA, where he reached the finals with the Houston Rockets and won a title with the Philadelphia 76ers. He retired in 1995.

In 1997, Moses Malone was voted among the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players. In 2001, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. A technically complete player, he’s best remembered for his incredible intensity and timing in going for the rebounds.