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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A few days before the NBA Draft on Thursday, I will take a look at the latest editions of the Mock Draft and calculate the positions for the different Europeans that are still in the process.

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In a first report, I will talk about the Guards that came up with the most interesting performances during the 2008 version of the Reebok Eurocamp. A second post will detail the forward while a last one will be about the Centers.

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After a last day in Treviso yesterday, here are some more notes before the detailed reports will be published in the upcoming days.

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And the day goes on and we have some more short infos for you from Treviso.

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With 30 days left until the 2008 NBA Draft, the sprint around the Globe for GM’s, scouts and other executives has begun. And europeanprospects.com comes up with its latest Mock Draft Review to check what are the trends in the most popular Mocks on the Web.

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While the list have not been published on the official website of the camp, the usually well informed sources have the names already online for a few days. Here are the names then again with a few comments from my side.

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A little bit later than usual, but here it is again: the European Prospects Mock Draft Review. After adapting the formula to calculate a bit in order to take into account the update dates of the different mocks, here we are with the results as of today.

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With a little bit of delay, here are the nominees for the EuropeanProspects.com Prospect of the Month of March 2008. The February award goes to Rudy Mbemba from Sweden by the way.

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One month ago, I started this review and now today it is time to go for an update of the process. I changed some of the Mocks that I will use and will now stay with a total of 6 different Mocks that are used for this article. So here are the results.

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It is time again for another vote of the prospect of the month. After the victory of Nando de Colo in January, it is now time to check who were the performers in the month of February.

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I will start today, about 4 and a half month before the NBA Draft 2008 a regular review of the different Mock Drafts and their respective places for the European Prospects. I have established a small formula that will give me an average position of the respective players.

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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.

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Ricky Rubio has been elected Young Player of the year. Not really what I have voted.
Seydou N’Joya is back in Nancy and has signed a “jeune aspirant” contract valid until the end of the season. He played with Norköpping in Sweden where he averaged 8.2ppg and 4.2apg in the 5 games he played.
Giorgi Shermadini [...]

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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 [...]

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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.

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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.

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It has always been the goal of this blog to cover Young European Basketball players. Of course, all the different NBA aspirants get the most attention. But I tried to cover also other young players that are not that much hyped but are also doing their job on the basketball court. In order to present [...]

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After having been hyped a lot 2-3 years ago, Ponkrashov has come back to earth. And after a correct season with CSKA Moscow where he won some titles but did not see the court that much, he has been loaned to Khimky in order to play. And he is playing good.

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The Slovenian PG was one of the positive surprises of the this year’s edition of the Eurobasket in Spain. Now he is playing his first season in the Euroleague and he mostly does it at his own favor.

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