Joonas Einari Kolkka is a Finnish retired professional footballer who played as a left winger most of his career, but could also play on the right wing. Having started his career in his native Finland, he went on to play for several clubs in the Netherlands, Greece, Germany, England, and the USA.
The Korisliiga is the top-tier professional basketball league in Finland, comprising the top 12 teams of the country. In its current format, each team plays all other teams two times in the regular season, once at home and once away, for a total of 22 regular season games. The top six teams advances continues to upper stage and the bottom six teams plays lower stage after 22 games, 5 games at home and 5 games at away versus all other teams in stage. The best two teams from lower group joins to playoffs with upper group teams. Playoffs are played best of seven format, except the quarter-finals which are played best of 5 format. Pantterit holds the record for the most league titles won, with 14. The top level Finnish league for women is the Naisten Korisliiga.
Rait Keerles is a retired Estonian professional basketball player. Keerles started his professional career in 1997, when he signed with BC Kalev. He has also played for Canon ENM and BC Tallinna Kalev before signing with BC Kalev/Cramo. With the team he won four Estonian Cups and four Estonian Championship gold medals. From 2009–2011 Keerles was the captain of the team. In July 2011, Keerles signed with Gloria Giants Düsseldorf of the German 2. Bundesliga. After the season Keerles decided to return to his former club BC Kalev/Cramo. For the 2013–14 season he signed with Rakvere Tarvas but left the team with mutual consent to play for CS Energia Rovinari in Romania. For the 2014–15 season he returned to Estonia to play his last professional season for TYCO Rapla. He has also been a member of the Estonia national basketball team in 2002–03 and 2008–09 seasons.
Sten-Timmu Sokk is an Estonian professional basketball player for Iraklis Thessaloniki B.C. of the Greek A2 Basket League. He is a 1.84 m tall point guard. He represents the Estonian national basketball team internationally.
Rapla KK, also known as Utilitas Rapla for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball team based in Rapla, Estonia. The team plays in the Estonian-Latvian Basketball League and the Korvpalli Meistriliiga (KML). Their home arena is the Sadolin Sports Hall.
Andres Sõber is an Estonian basketball coach and former professional player.
Andre Pärn is an Estonian former basketball player.
Juris Umbraško is a Latvian professional basketball coach and player. He heads the Latvian-Estonian Basketball League team Rīgas Zeļļi.
Martin Dorbek is an Estonian professional basketball player. He is currently playing for BC Kalev/Cramo. He comes from basketball family: father Allan Dorbek is a basketball coach, brothers Erik Dorbek and Karl-Peeter Dorbek are both Estonian champions. Another basketball player Gert Dorbek is Allan's uncle's descendant.
Janis Vahter is an Estonian professional basketball player. He is currently playing for TLÜ/Kalev at the small forward position.
Namika Lahti was a basketball club based in Lahti, Finland. The club played in the Korisliiga, the top Finnish championship league. The club was established in 1898 in Vyborg and moved to Lahti in 1947. In 2015, the club was dissolved, after economic problems.
Joonas Tamm is an Estonian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Bulgarian First League side Botev Plovdiv and the Estonia national team.
David Gonzalvez is an American professional basketball player for Tapiolan Honka in the Finnish Korisliiga. Standing at 1.93 m, Gonzalvez usually plays at the shooting guard position.
Ismet Akpınar is a Turkish-German professional basketball player for Türk Telekom of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL).
Ville Valtteri Pekkola is a Finnish basketball player. 190 cm tall shooting guard/small forward Pekkola plays for Tampereen Pyrintö in Korisliiga. Alongside Finnish competitions, Pekkola has represented Pyrintö in Baltic Basketball League. He is known of his good defensive abilities.
Joonas Järveläinen is an Estonian professional basketball player. He is a 2.00 m tall power forward.
Tuomas Iisalo is a Finnish basketball coach and former player. He is currently serving as the assistant coach of the Memphis Grizzlies in the NBA.
Joonas Riismaa is an Estonian professional basketball player who last played for New Basket Brindisi of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He also represents the Estonian national team.
Joonas Kekarainen is a Finnish professional football midfielder for Veikkausliiga side Inter Turku and the Finland U19 national team.
Luukas Vaara is a Finnish basketball player who plays for Salon Vilpas in Finnish Korisliiga. He started basketball in youth teams of Namika Lahti and Lahti Basketball.
