The Canarias Basketball Academy is probably the team that brought the most players to a Division 1 Scholarship this summer; there were 6. Here we go for a short video review on 5 of them and also present what the Canarias Basketball Academy is about.
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Living in America: Canarias BA alumni
October 17th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Ben Daniels·Canarias Basketball Academy·Czech Republic·Daniel Thompson·Fahro Alihodzic·Fordham·Houston Baptist University·Jason Beharie·Living in America·Marist College·Menelik Watson·Morehead State·Tomas Bruha·United Kingdom·USF
5 French Espoirs to follow this year
October 10th, 2009 · No Comments
The website of the French Espoirs League has published recently an article about the 5 former Espoirs players to follow this season. I took the freedom to translate the article into English and tell you about the 5 players that want to confirm their potential this year.
Tags: ASVEL·Bangaly Fofana·Cholet Basket·France·HTV·Kevin Seraphin·Nobel Boungou-Colo·Olympique Antibes·Seidou N'Joya·SLUC Nancy·Steeve Ho You Fat
Three young Latvians for the future
October 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment
During the recent Euroleague Qualification Round, BK Ventspils made a first apparition in the major continental competition and played against Benetton Treviso. Despite being eliminated, it was a good occasion for me to check out the talented 1989 generation from Latvia as the two leaders played with Ventspils and did quite a nice job.
Tags: BK Ventspils·Dairis Bertans·Janis Strelnieks·Latvia·Lauris Blaus
Living in America: Christian Standhardinger (Nebraska)
September 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments
One of the most interesting players to join the NCAA ranks directly from Europe is the German forward Christian Standhardinger. The former Ehingen/Urspringschule player has been recruited by the Big12 team Nebraska Huskers but he will miss the 15 non-conference games this season. Here we go for a close look at the forward from Munich.
Tags: Christian Standhardinger·Elias Harris·Living in America·Nebraska
Eurobasket 2009: the NBA Draft candidates
September 21st, 2009 · 5 Comments
The Eurobasket 2009 is history now and I take a look at the players that can be considered as the most interesting prospects of the tournament. The players featured in the article are those that are still potentially NBA Draft candidates, so all the players born in 1988 or earlier but not drafted yet.
Tags: Antoine Diot·Banvit·Baris Hersek·Brose Baskets Bamberg·Crvena Zvezda·Elias Harris·FMP Belgrade·France·Germany·Gonzaga·Hemofarm Vrsac·Iowa State·Le Mans·Lucca Staiger·Milan Macvan·Miroslav Raduljica·Nemanja Bjelica·Philipp Neumann·ratiopharm Ulm·Robin Benzing·Serbia·Stefan Markovic·Telekom Baskets Bonn·Tim Ohlbrecht·Turkey
Antoine Diot makes the next step
August 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments
With the additional Qualification round of the 2009 Eurobasket having started last week, one name has emerged in the French press that has already been followed by the experts for a long time but more than 30 different articles have been written about the current back-up PG of the French National Team.
Tags: Antoine Diot·Division A European Championship·Eurobasket 2009·France·Le Mans
Reebok Eurocamp: the best of the rest
June 28th, 2009 · No Comments
After having discussed the NBA prospects in Treviso, I take a closer look at the other players present in Treviso that may be NBA candidates in the next years or stay in Europe.
Tags: Adam Hanga·Alexey Shved·Anton Ponomarev·Artem Zabelin·BC Siauliai·Cajasol Sevilla·Carl Ona Embo·CB Granada·CSKA Moscow·Hyères-Toulon·Mindaugas Kuzminskas·Nikos Pappas·Pablo Aguilar·Reebok Eurocamp·Tomas Satoransky
NBA Draft 2009: the European candidates
June 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
With the NBA Draft being held at the Madison Square Garden this Thursday, I go for a quick check of the most interesting European Draft candidates for the year 2009.
Tags: Christian Eyenga·Emir Preldzic·Gasper Vidmar·Henk Norel·Jonas Jerebko·Milenko Tepic·Nando de Colo·Omri Casspi·Ricky Rubio·Rodrigue Beaubois·Rudy Mbemba·Sergi Llull·Sergiy Gladyr·Slava Kravtsov·Victor Claver
Reebok Eurocamp: the NBA Draft prospects
June 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments
In our first part of the review on the recent Reebok Eurocamp in Treviso, I took a look at those players being automatically eligible or early entrance candidates and that have a correct chance of being drafted. The review contains only information on the European players, so Patrick Mills or Patrick Beverley have not been […]
Tags: Daniel Hackett·Henk Norel·Jonas Jerebko·Nando de Colo·Reebok Eurocamp·Rodrigue Beaubois·Sergiy Gladyr·Vladimir Dasic
Today’s picks (live from Treviso)
June 8th, 2009 · No Comments
Here we go for quick recap of the action I was able to catch from the Reebok Eurocamp in Treviso so far. A camp that has representatives from all the 30 NBA teams in attendance in addition to a long list of Agents and representatives from European teams as well.
Tags: Abdoulaye M'Baye·Alexey Shved·Anton Ponomarev·Boban Marjanovic·Nikos Pappas·Pablo Aguilar·Reebok Eurocamp·Rodrigue Beaubois·Roger Zaki·Stefan Markovic·Tomas Satoransky·Vladimir Dasic