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Vasilije Micic, the passing majesty

March 3rd, 2013 · No Comments

During the Nike International Junior Tournament, I had the opportunity to follow the Serbian League game between Mega Vizura and Metalac. In the team from the Belgrade suburbs, the 1994 born PG Vasilije Micic runs the show next to a couple of other interesting prospects.

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Living in America: Elias Desport (St. Peter’s)

February 3rd, 2013 · No Comments

In our Living in America series, we spoke with the Swedish forward Elias Desport today. He decided to go a different way than most of the Swedish prospects who signed in Southern Europe and went to the East Coast of the United States to play with St. Peter’s in Jersey City.

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Living in America: Edmunds Dukulis and Vukasin Vujovic (Boise State)

January 26th, 2013 · No Comments

Boise State has recruited two European players this summer with the Latvian PF Edmunds Dukulis and the Serbian SF Vukasin Vujovic. We spoke with the two players to get a better feeling for their choice to play in the United States and how it feels to be in such an international team like Boise State.

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A first look at Partizan in the Euroleague 2012/13

November 6th, 2012 · No Comments

After four games into the season and just before the clash at home with Brose Baskets Bamberg, it is about time to make an analysis of the main young prospects in the Serbian roster. Four players are clearly stepping up their game this season so let’s check how they did so far in the toughest [...]

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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 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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Fournier–Westermann: two different destinations

July 2nd, 2012 · No Comments

Both are born in 1992, both are from France, both made major career choices in the last days, but these choices could not be more different. These decisions will probably have a major impact on their future careers but both prospects will take a certain risk. While Evan Fournier got drafted on the 20th position [...]

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NBA Draft 2012: Euro Press Review

June 29th, 2012 · No Comments

With the NBA Draft 2012 being over, we wanted to see how the different European Draft picks have been received by the respective press outlets of their new destinations. But I also checked some of the comments written in their home country.

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NBA Draft 2012: Euro Analysis (incl. VIDEO)

June 29th, 2012 · No Comments

The picks are made so the time for the analysis and the judgments has come. I have put together a quick paragraph an every European player picked last night so here we go.

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Will this NBA Draft have a Euro-free 1st round?

June 28th, 2012 · No Comments

It is NBA Draft 2012, the day all the fans of the non-Playoff Teams are waiting for as they hope that their team will get new players that can turn around their franchise. Over the last years, European players have always been a major point of discussion, is it because they were overhyped or under [...]

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Adidas Eurocamp 2012: Early Entrants

June 17th, 2012 · No Comments

After having talked about the automatically eligible players and the vitals and measurements of all participants, the article of today discusses the camp of the NBA Draft 2012 early entrants. At the moment, it is not sure who will really stay in the Draft but we will talk about all the players that were present [...]

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Living in America: Kilian Cato (Maine)

March 27th, 2012 · No Comments

Better late than never, here we go for the last part of this season’s Interview series with European NCAA freshmen. Today, the Finnish forward Kilian Cato from the University of Maine can talk about his experience in the United States.

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Europeans in the Conference Tournaments 2012

March 13th, 2012 · No Comments

This weekend were the last finals of the different Conference Tournaments in NCAA Division 1 Basketball. We take a quick look at what we could learn of the performances of some European players that were active in the different games.

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KK Baltai: Zalgiris reserve struggles in BBL

February 12th, 2012 · No Comments

During the trip to Kaunas for the Nike International Junior Tournament, I had also the opportunity to follow a game of KK Baltai playing University of Tartu in the Baltic League. KK Baltai is in fact the reserve team of Zalgiris Kaunas and one of the several places where the Lithuanian Euroleague team can stack [...]

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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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U20 European Championship 2011: Scoutings

August 8th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Thomas Drouot followed the Final Phase of the U20 European Championship 2011 in Bilbao and he has sent us his scouting on the best players from the tournament in his eyes. Let’s see what he has to say.

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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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