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Philipp Neumann continues to improve

April 20th, 2013 · No Comments

Philipp Neumann has been considered a high-level talent for a long time already. But this season is the one where he really emerges on the top level in Germany and shows what potential he has. The 2m09 big guy, who was moving between PF and C in the youth categories playing often facing the basket [...]

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The big day of Joffrey Lauvergne

February 28th, 2013 · No Comments

During the Nike International Junior Tournament in Belgrade, I also had the possibility to follow the Adriatic League game between Partizan Belgrade and Union Olimpija Ljubljana. Over the last two years, Nemanja Nedovic used this moment where lots of NBA Scouts are present to showcase his skills. This time, the French big guy Joffrey Lauvergne [...]

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Rudy Gobert: a non-scouting report

December 12th, 2012 · No Comments

Rudy Gobert is currently the hottest name in terms of European chances to get selected in the NBA Draft 2013 among the lottery picks. As his game is already pretty much known and as we reported already several times about him, I wanted to go for a little more background information on the French inside [...]

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Philipp Neumann hustling ahead in Germany

December 2nd, 2012 · No Comments

After being on the radar in Germany for the last four years, Philipp Neumann is currently playing his break-out season for the German champions Brose Baskets. The German big guy is seeing regular and quality minutes in the Euroleague and the Bundesliga and is showing nice progress over the last months. Not very well known [...]

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5 players to follow in Portugal 2012/2013

October 18th, 2012 · 4 Comments

(Luís Cristóvão) When you talk about Basketball, Portugal isn’t the place you go looking for young talent. Mostly, because the Portuguese don’t usually are in the big competitions. With almost no teams playing in European Cups (Benfica was the exception in the 2010/11 Eurochallenge) and a weak National Team (after making it to Eurobasket 2011, [...]

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5 players to follow in the French ProA 2012/13

October 5th, 2012 · No Comments

In the next part of our season preview, we take a look at the players to follow in the French ProA. This preview does not feature Rudy Gobert who has already been presented in a previous article and I will not speak either of Mam Jaiteh who will play in the Pro B this season. [...]

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5 players to follow in the Bundesliga 2012/13

September 30th, 2012 · 1 Comment

After having discussed already 5 players to follow for the NBA Draft 2012, we will take a look today at 5 players (and a Wildcard) in the Beko BBL. These players should be able to significantly improve their presence this season. We do not mention in this preview Maxi Kleber who was already talked about [...]

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5 players to follow for the NBA Draft 2013

September 25th, 2012 · 1 Comment

The new season in Europe is about to start and there are several players that are already emerging in the different pre-season tournaments as potential NBA Draft picks 2013. We selected five players and a Wildcard that we suggest you should follow particularly well as they might end up as some of the most intriguing [...]

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Adidas Eurocamp 2012: National Team players

June 26th, 2012 · 5 Comments

In the last part of our review of the Adidas Eurocamp 2012, we will take a look at those players that competed in the different national selections that were present in Treviso. Unfortunately, Dmitry Kulagin got injured so that he could not fully play during all the games. Therefore, he is not in our reports. [...]

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Adidas Eurocamp 2012: the next generation

June 24th, 2012 · No Comments

In the third part of our player analysis of the Adidas Eurocamp 2012, we will look at some players that might develop into to prospects in the next years. You can do some Sportsbook Review in order to see how to bet on their future but here is a first analysis on their potential. The [...]

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Maik Zirbes confirms, Philipp Neumann emerges

December 29th, 2011 · 3 Comments

This week, the game between TBB Trier and Brose Baskets Bamberg was a good opportunity to see some of the most promising Centers of German Basketball face-to-face. The already drafted Tibor Pleiß together with the top prospect Philipp Neumann had to play against one of the best big men of the Bundesliga season so far: [...]

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92 born players to watch in Spain 2011/2012 (Pt.2)

November 5th, 2011 · 3 Comments

In the second part of the analysis of the best 1992 born players in Spain, the experts from www.futurestars.uk.com came up with 5 players that do not have a Spanish background but are already factors in the ACB or have big potential.

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92 born players to watch in Spain 2011/2012 (Pt.1)

November 3rd, 2011 · No Comments

In a new collaboration with www.futurestars.uk.com we exchanged content for a series of articles of the Top10 1992 born players in the Spanish professional basketball. Check the first part below to see 5 of the players the experts from Future Stars see among the 10 most promising players from the Iberian peninsula.

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5 prospects to follow in the LNB 2011/2012

September 28th, 2011 · 4 Comments

After having discussed five prospects to follow in the German Bundesliga, we will check today who are the players to follow in the French LNB League this season.

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5 prospects to follow in the Bundesliga 2011/2012

September 25th, 2011 · 1 Comment

The seasons in the different European Leagues are about to start next weekend so that we check who are the prospects to follow in some of the main leagues. We will start today with the German Bundesliga that becomes more and more interesting also for young players to get some minutes on a good level.

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FIBA U19 World Championship 2011: the Bigs

July 26th, 2011 · No Comments

The tournament is over for quite some time but I managed to finish my report on the Big guys only today. So here we go for a review of the most interesting inside players including an updated on the Toronto Raptors drafted Lithuanian Center Jonas Valanciunas.

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FIBA U19 World Championship Preview: Brazil

June 25th, 2011 · No Comments

Our Preview series continues with a piece on the Brazilian U19 National written by Rafael Uehara. We can already inform you that the competition will be broadcasted as LIVE Stream and without Geo-Blocking on FIBA TV. Click here if you want to subscribe for the event.

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NBA Draft 2011: the Euro-Review

June 24th, 2011 · No Comments

The NBA Draft 2011 is in the books and before we move on to other things, we go first for a quick overview of the different European picks with a short analysis of their situation.

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The INSEP Signing season has started

May 31st, 2011 · No Comments

With the announcement of Hugo Invernizzi’s future destination today, you can say that the signing season of the INSEP athletes is in full swing. We take a quick look at the first decisions and what might come in the next days and weeks.

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NBBL Top4 2011: Player review

May 29th, 2011 · 1 Comment

After having run through the major prospects of the JBBL Top4, it is about time to check who are the players that shined in the NBBL semis and Final game. This season was the last one for the highly talented 1992 generation from Germany and several of the real big prospects managed to qualify with [...]

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