A little more than a week ago, the agent for for international Portland Trail Blazers big man Joel Freeland was quoted by Spanish publication La Opinion De Malaga saying that Spanish club Unicaja Malaga was close to inking a contract extension with his client.

On Tuesday, La Opinion De Malaga reports that the agreement is "practically closed." A Sportando.net translation provides the following details...
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Joel Freeland has agreed with Unicaja Malaga to extend the contract with the Spanish team, according to La Opinion de Malaga. The new contract of the British big man with Unicaja Malaga will have a €2.7M buyout clause. The deal should be official after Copa del Rey who will be played till Sunday in Barcelona.

His agent, Falo Calvo, said that Joel Freeland doesn't want to play in any other team different from Malaga, not even an NBA team once he will sign the new agreement.
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Freeland, 25, has been a standout for Unicaja Malaga this season, winning ACB player of the month honors before suffering an ankle injury.

Ed: Many thanks to Meru for posting this. Headline and text updated.

-- Ben Golliver | benjamin.golliver@gmail.com | Twitter

Unicaja still loses...

That's how you know he's a Trail Blazer.

Splitter was MVP of the ACB before he came over. I wonder what this will mean for Freeland's current MVP-like performance. Presumably they will start together, as Freeland has been playing PF.

Jon Diebler getting steady minutes for Panionios

Batum plays all but one minute and gets 21 points, 9 boards and 4 assists. He hit a clutch jumper in the final minutes when Caja Laboral looked like coming back.

They've finally posted it.

He also got 4 steals but 9 TOs, and was fouled 11 times. Thabo Sefolosha was playing for the other side, so he saw NBA defense.

In depth article with clips. The same site has an article called "Nicolas Batum Dominating Euroleague"

Frank Isola of the New York Daily News reports...
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The NBA will be cancelling at least two more weeks of its season, according to a person familiar with the league's plans. The source told the Daily News that the announcement will be made by the league on Tuesday.
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This would cover the period from Nov. 15 to Nov. 28. Seven Portland Trail Blazers games would be impacted by the cancellation: a Nov. 16 home game versus the Chicago Bulls, a Nov. 18 road game at the Indiana Pacers, a Nov. 19 road game at the Milwaukee Bucks, a Nov. 21 road game at the Charlotte Bobcats, a Nov. 23 road game at the Detroit Pistons, a Nov. 24 home game versus the Utah Jazz and a Nov. 28 road game at the Dallas Mavericks.The cancellation would leave the Blazers with 68 games remaining on their regular season schedule.

NBA commissioner David Stern cancelled the first two weeks of the regular season on Oct. 10.

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