Entries from June 2010

NBA Draft 2010: Quick Euro Analysis

June 25th, 2010 · 4 Comments

The NBA Draft 2010 is in the books and the number of European players picked by the Franchises has not been as low for years. With one player in the first round and only four in the second round, Europe was under-represented compared to the last years but it will probably be a different story […]

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NBA Draft 2010: Countdown

June 23rd, 2010 · 6 Comments

With the NBA Draft 2010 only hours away, we will start a countdown to the big event regrouping all the news, rumors and echoes around European players in this year’s edition. Feel free to add your comments below if you hear anything that you think is important in relation with the Draft 2010. The NBA […]

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Two important preparation tournaments ahead

June 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments

With the European Championships coming closer, the number of preparation tournaments is increasing as well. This week, two major events will be played in Turkey and France. We took a quick look at both tournaments.

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Destination NBA: the movie of the Draft

June 21st, 2010 · No Comments

We have talked already about this movie once but as the NBA Draft 2010 is approaching, I can only highly recommend again this film created by the French Nicolas de Virieu who accompanied Nicolas Batum and Alexis Ajinca to the 2008 NBA Draft. Even if the movie is only available in French, all the English […]

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European Auto-Eligible players for the 2010 Draft

June 21st, 2010 · No Comments

With the NBA Draft 2010 being held this week, it is about time to check the current situation of the automatically eligible Europeans.

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NBBL/JBBL Qualifications for 2010/2011

June 20th, 2010 · No Comments

This weekend have been played the first qualification games for the German Youth Leagues. Both the NBBL U19 and the JBBL U16 leagues have more teams wanting to compete than open spots so that every summer a qualification tournament to fill the open spots is played.

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Tweets of the week (Week 22+23 – 2010)

June 19th, 2010 · No Comments

Here we go for the recap of the most important tweets of the last 2 weeks. Follow me live on Twitter here.

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Only 5 Europeans remain Early-Entries for the NBA Draft 2010

June 17th, 2010 · 5 Comments

The number of Europeans that stay in the NBA Draft 2010 as Early-Entry players has dropped to only 5. A multitude of big talents have opted out or did not even declare this spring so that the 2011 edition looks to be highly promising for European players. I will talk about that in a later […]

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Adidas Eurocamp Treviso 2010: U20 National Teams

June 16th, 2010 · No Comments

Currently on holidays in the lovely Austrian Alps to recharge my batteries for the summer, I took some time to share my thoughts on the Croatian and French U20 National teams that compete in the Adidas Eurocamp 2010 in Treviso. Both teams prepare the upcoming U20 European Championships that will be played in Croatia.

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Adidas Eurocamp Treviso 2010 Review (Part 2)

June 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Today we continue our review of the players from the Adidas Eurocamp in Treviso with a few additional names that we are thinking are worth to be mentioned.

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