Entries For 'Veterans'

David Jelinek does the Scoring Machine

January 13th, 2012 · No Comments

David Jelinek, the Czech Shooting Guard is already in his fifth season with the Spanish team Joventut Badalona. After having arrived in 2007 to play with the Junior Team, the Brno native spent several seasons with the Joventut farm team at Prat where he gained experience on the professional level. In 2010, he started his […]

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Maik Zirbes confirms, Philipp Neumann emerges

December 29th, 2011 · 3 Comments

This week, the game between TBB Trier and Brose Baskets Bamberg was a good opportunity to see some of the most promising Centers of German Basketball face-to-face. The already drafted Tibor Pleiß together with the top prospect Philipp Neumann had to play against one of the best big men of the Bundesliga season so far: […]

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Tornike Shengelia: a future high-level Forward

December 19th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Tornike “Toko” Shengelia is one of the few but talented Georgian players currently active in the Euroleague. After having spent several years in Spain, Shengelia is now in his second season playing in Belgium. With Spirou Charleroi, he is a rookie in the Euroleague competition and one of the candidates for the Rising Star Trophy […]

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The Unlikeliest Champion: a book on UConn 10/11

December 15th, 2011 · No Comments

Like any other Connecticut resident, Aaron Torres grew up living and breathing University of Connecticut athletics.  After attending UConn and beginning a career as a young sportswriter, Torres has continued his passion for UConn basketball and explores the 2011 NCAA National Men’s Basketball Champions is his book, “The Unlikeliest Champion.”

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Abdel Kader Sylla starts to play

December 9th, 2011 · 1 Comment

SLUC Nancy was one of the main attractions in the Euroleague this season because of the presence of the French National Team player Nicolas Batum. However, since his departure, the team struggles in the main competition but they find some time to integrate one of their most interesting prospects into the regular rotation.

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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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The (nearly) perfect game of Jordan Aboudou

October 31st, 2011 · No Comments

This Friday, the French team of Chalon traveled to Dijon for the Burgundy derby in the LNB ProA. Chalon is known for their good youth program, they will participate for the first time to a Nike International Junior Tournament this season, featuring players like Nicolas Lang or Joffrey Lauvergne. But it was the 20 years-old […]

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Leo Westermann, an option for France in London?

October 13th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Leo Westermann, who was featured in our players to watch list for the LNB season 2011-2012, started extremely well from an individual point of view into the season. Before the arrival of Tony Parker at ASVEL which means probably less responsibilities for the young guard, we had the chance to take a quick luck at […]

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U18 European Championship 2011: the Bigs

October 6th, 2011 · 7 Comments

In the last part of our series of reports on the U18 European Championship, we will talk about the big guys today.

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