The East finals started in the NBA with Lebron James deciding with a buzzer beater the outcome in the overtime win of Miami Heat over Indiana Pacers who used for 12 minutes French center Ian Mahimni

Defending champions Siena, Cantu and Roma survived the first round of Legabasket’s play offs and EA7 Armani Milano despite having the home court advantage couldn’t prevail. It’s a dissapointing end of the season for the team of coach Scariolo

Bayern Munich and Ulm got the wins in the first games of BBL’s semifinals despite being the guests and of course the win of coach Pesic’s team over the defending champions is turning heads around Europe

Olympiacos and Panathinaikos got the wins in the first game of the play offs, Panionios also defended its home court in overtime and AGOR beat PAOK in Thesaloniki, however the fans of the two bigger teams were absent

The season ended for Mike Batiste in Turkey with Fenerbahce/ Ulker and the 36years old forward is not thinking at all about retirement. On the contrary he is ready for a new challenge, probably in an other team as his contract expired

San Antonio needed extra time, but got the win and the 2-0 lead over Memphis Grizzlies with Tony Parker dishing 18 assists in 42 minutes of action. Spaniard Marc Gasol had one more good game for the losing side, but it was not enough

As the season ended for Fenerbahce/ Ulker, the Turkish club is already thinking of the future with coach Dusan Ivkovic being close to signing, Milos Teodosic being their most illustrious target and Joey Dorsey available to them

Simone Pianigiani talked to Eurohoops after the Euroleague Final Four in London and before his former team disappointing end of the season. However, his point still stands and according to him what Fener needs is patience