Tomorrow is the big day, the NBA Draft 2008 is going on in the Madison Square Garden, New York. Besides the 5 early entrants, there is a long list of 1986 born automatically eligible players that can be drafted. I took a short look at the most promising of these guys.
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NBA Draft 2008: 1986 born automatically eligibles
June 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Anton Ponkrashov · Damjan Rudez · Goran Dragic · Kaloyan Ivanov · Luca Vitali · Nikita Kurbanov · Nikola Pekovic · Novicka Velickovic · Omer Asik · Predrag Samardziski · Semih Erden · Tadija Dragicevic · Uros Tripkovic
Reebok Eurocamp Treviso 2008: the Forwards
June 14th, 2008 · No Comments
In the second part of the review of the Reebok Eurocamp in Treviso, I will talk about the Forwards. The last part will then talk about the big guys.
Tags: Jonas Jerebko · Marko Keselj · Nikita Kurbanov · Semen Shashkov · Vladimir Dasic
Tonight’s picks (live from Reebok Eurocamp Treviso)
June 9th, 2008 · No Comments
And the day goes on and we have some more short infos for you from Treviso.
Tags: 2008 Reebok Eurocamp · Andriy Agafonov · Anton Ponkrashov · Marko Keselj · Nicolas Batum · Vladimir Dasic
Today’s picks (live from Reebok Eurocamp Treviso)
June 8th, 2008 · No Comments
After arriving in Italy and a first day at the La Ghirada Sportcomplex, here are my first thoughts about the camp so far.
Tags: 2008 Reebok Eurocamp · Alexey Shved · Nikita Kurbanov · Rudy Mbemba · Serge Ibaka · Thomas Heurtel · Vladimir Dasic
Kaloyan Ivanov update
May 30th, 2008 · No Comments
The name of Kaloyan Ivanov bounced into the NBA Draft process last year when the Bulgarian PF declared himself to the Early Entrants list before retiring his name afterwards. This season where he is automatically eligible, we did not hear a lot about him so far, so that I decided to check what he is [...]
Tags: Kaloyan Ivanov
A first look at Nicolo Melli
February 25th, 2008 · No Comments
This weekend, I had the possibility to see the talented forward from Italy in action with his LegaDue team Trenkwalder Reggio Emilia. The U16 European Championship All-Tournament team member is actually getting some regular minutes with his team on the second highest Italian level.
Tags: 1991 born · Forward · Nicolo Melli
Semaine des As: talent meeting
February 9th, 2008 · No Comments
When the Copa del Rey in Spain is getting heavily covered these days, but except the well-known prospects like Ricky Rubio and Victor Claver, the scouting interest for draft eligible players is more developed in Toulon where the French version is taking place.
Tags: 1987 born · 1988 born · 1989 born · Alexis Ajinca · Antoine Diot · Forward · Guard · Nando de Colo · Nicolas Batum · Rodrigue Beaubois
Prospect of the month: January 2008
February 4th, 2008 · No Comments
And here it is again, the Europeanprospects.com vote for the Prospect of the month January 2008. After the success of Ricky Rubio in the December 2007 vote with nearly half of all the voices, we are back now with the nominees for the first month of the new year.
Tags: 1986 born · 1987 born · 1988 born · 1989 born · 1990 born · Danilo Gallinari · Forward · Forward · Guard · Guard · Guard · Nando de Colo · Novicka Velickovic · Ricky Rubio · Sarunas Vasiliauskas
Alexis Ajinca video update
February 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
I have talked already about the interesting game of Alexis Ajinca last week. Now, the French league published the clip with the best plays of that game on their website.
Tags: 1988 born · Alexis Ajinca · Forward
Today’s picks
January 7th, 2008 · No Comments
If you want to know a little bit more about the Dutch Center prospect Roeland Schaftenaar, then check the interview with him here
NBA Draft.net published an interview with Rodrigue Beaubois. I was a little surprised by the polished and very well suited answers from Beaubois. Maybe the translator, who is also Beaubois’ agent, helped a [...]
Tags: 1986 born · 1988 born · 1989 born · Center · Dominik Spohr · Forward · Guard · Nikola Pekovic · Rodrigue Beaubois
Urspring goes USA (4th place) and more
January 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Finally, Urspring Academy finished the Arby’s Classic at the 4th place, their best ever result. The Germans lost their last game against the Columbia Eagles 64-46 on Monday evening. When you look at the stats, you can imagine that the accumulation of games in the last two weeks made the team from Ralph Junge earn [...]
Tags: 1989 born · Forward · Robin Benzing · Thomas Armbrecht
Prospect of the month: December 2007
January 1st, 2008 · No Comments
And here it is again, the Europeanprospects.com vote for the Prospect of the month December 2007. The nominees are Tadija Dragicevic, Ante Tomic, Danilo Gallinari, Antoine Diot and Ricky Rubio.
Tags: 1986 born · 1987 born · 1988 born · 1989 born · 1990 born · Ante Tomic · Antoine Diot · Center · Danilo Gallinari · Forward · Forward · Guard · Guard · Ricky Rubio · Tadija Dragicevic
Omri Casspi leaving Maccabi?
December 30th, 2007 · 5 Comments
It is already well know that Omri Casspi’s family is really pushing hard his development and career. In a recent article from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Shimon Casspi was reported to have once again passed the line.
Tags: 1988 born · Forward · Omri Casspi
Today’s picks
December 29th, 2007 · No Comments
Xavi Rey, who was one of the dominant Centers of the U20 European Championship this summer will move to Ricoh Manresa. He was already with the team this Friday but he did not enter the court in a loss against Bilbao
Another prospect on the move in Spain is Daniel Clark. The English Center will be [...]
Tags: 1987 born · 1988 born · Adrien Moerman · Center · Daniel Clark · Danilo Gallinari · Forward · Jonas Jerebko · Xavi Rey
Urspring goes USA (Semi-Finals)
December 29th, 2007 · No Comments
Urspring has reached the Semi-Finals of the Arby’s Classic and will play Biarcrest Christian tonight to reach the Final of this important Tournament for the first time.
Tags: 1989 born · 1990 born · Forward · Guard · Maurice Stuckey · Thierno Agne
Some All-Star game notes
December 28th, 2007 · No Comments
These days are All-Star game days in some European countries. And this counts especially for two regions that provide generally a lot of interesting NBA prospects. I speak about France and the Adriatic region. The French All-Star game will be held tomorrow Saturday while the Adriatic League had their annual show event yesterday evening.
Tags: 1986 born · 1987 born · 1988 born · Andrija Stipanovic · Ante Tomic · Center · Damjan Rudez · Forward · Goran Dragic · Guard · Jaka Klobucar · Jure Lalic · Marc-Antoine Pellin · Milenko Tepic · Nando de Colo · Nemanja Gordic · Nicolas Batum · Nikola Pekovic · Tadija Dragicevic
