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German All-Star Day 2010: the NBBL steals the show

January 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment

The German All-Star Day 2010 was on the schedule this Saturday in Bonn. With the move from Mannheim to the Telekom Dome, the BEKO BBL has made an excellent decision as the arena was sold out and a great atmosphere throughout the event confirmed the popularity of the sport in Bonn. Even Euroleague CEO Jordi [...]

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Tags: Besnik Bekteshi · Daniel Theis · Dennis Ogbe · Niels Giffey · Patrick Heckmann · Per Günther · Philipp Neumann · Robin Benzing

Two shooters to look at in Germany

January 18th, 2010 · No Comments

The German Bundesliga is still a US-dominated League but more and more young players are earning their minutes and showing good progress. Today, I discuss two young Shooting Guards that come from very different backgrounds. Both are having their first real impact season on the highest professional level and both are set for improving in [...]

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Tags: Karsten Tadda · Stefan Tapuskovic

Quick review on the ongoing EuroCup season

December 27th, 2009 · 3 Comments

With the year 2009 coming to an end, it is time to look back at what happened during the last months. The EuroCup season is quite shorter than the Euroleague but the teams playing here are stuffed with interesting talent. So it is time to take a quick look at those players that are emerging [...]

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Tags: Alessandro Gentile · Alexey Shved · Antoine Diot · Boban Marjanovic · Carl Ona Embo · Dairis Bertans · David Jelinek · Deividas Gailius · Dimitry Khvostov · Donatas Motiejunas · Elmedin Kikanovic · Janis Strelnieks · Karsten Tadda · Kevin Seraphin · Lauris Blaus · Marko Keselj · Milan Macvan · Mindaugas Kuzminskas · Nemanja Bjelica · Pere Tomas · Pietro Aradori · Stefan Markovic · Tibor Pleiß · Tim Ohlbrecht

Pietro Aradori 4 years later

December 11th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Back in 2006, at the beginning of this website, Pietro Aradori was one of the first players that I covered as he was a major factor for the Italian team at the Albert-Schweitzer Tournament. I scouted him later on again in 2007 at the U20 European Championship in Gorizia and now, at the edge of [...]

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Tags: Pietro Aradori

Update on Finnish Prospects 2009/2010

November 26th, 2009 · No Comments

Approximately one year ago, EuropeanProspects.com made an introduction to several Finnish prospects together with our friend Hippo from Finland. Today, we will check who are the players that emerge in the season 2009/2010 up North.

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Tags: Antti Kanervo · Antto Nikkarinen · Bojan Sarcevic · Sasu Salin

Martynas Gecevicius shooting star

November 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments

The Lithuanian guard is on fire during the beginning of this season so it was time to take a closer look at the Lietuvos Rytas player. Martynas Gecevicius, who I follow for quite a few years now is finally getting the playing minutes with Rytas to show what he is able to do on the [...]

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Tags: Martynas Gecevicius

Eurobasket 2009: the NBA Draft candidates

September 21st, 2009 · 2 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.

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Tags: Antoine Diot · Baris Hersek · Elias Harris · Eurobasket · Lucca Staiger · Milan Macvan · Miroslav Raduljica · Nemanja Bjelica · Robin Benzing · Stefan Markovic · Tibor Pleiß · Tim Ohlbrecht

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.

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Tags: Adam Hanga · Alexey Shved · Anton Ponomarev · Artem Zabelin · Carl Ona Embo · 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.

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Tags: 2009 NBA Draft Process · 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 [...]

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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.

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Tags: Abdoulaye M'Baye · Alexey Shved · Anton Ponomarev · Boban Marjanovic · Jaka Klobucar · Nando de Colo · Nikos Pappas · Pablo Aguilar · Reebok Eurocamp · Rodrigue Beaubois · Roger Zaki · Stefan Markovic · Tomas Satoransky · Vladimir Dasic

Today’s picks

May 27th, 2009 · 7 Comments

The upcoming European and World Championships are coming closer so that the first preliminary rosters get published. Additionally, some interesting news around the NBA Draft.

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Tags: Fabien Causeur · Nando de Colo · Terrence Oglesby · Victor Claver

Playoff picks

May 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Today, I give you a few thoughts on the different European playoff games I saw these last days.

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Tags: Joel Freeland · Karsten Tadda · Pau Ribas · Per Günther · Ricky Rubio · Roger Zaki · Sergi Llull · Tim Ohlbrecht

A first look at the upcoming 2009 NBA Draft

April 14th, 2009 · No Comments

Today, I took a first look at the upcoming NBA Draft from a European perspective. I will check who are the players that have already declared to enter the draft and who is supposed to do so in the next days. Who are the players that are automatically eligible?

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Tags: 2009 NBA Draft Process · Donatas Motiejunas · Emir Preldzic · Fernando Raposo · Giorgi Shermadini · Henk Norel · Jonas Jerebko · Ludo Vaty · Milenko Tepic · Nando de Colo · Omri Casspi · Ricky Rubio · Rodrigue Beaubois · Sergi Llull · Slava Kravtsov · Tim Ohlbrecht · Victor Claver · Vladimir Dasic

Rodrigue Beaubois Cover Boy (UPDATED highlight video)

April 8th, 2009 · No Comments

Personally, I must admit that I did not follow Rodrigue Beaubois that much this season. But the recent cover story on him in the French Basketnews magazine made me check his game a little closer.

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Tags: Rodrigue Beaubois

German Bundesliga roundup

April 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

I took a deeper look into the most interesting prospects coming of the German Bundesliga this week. The number of domestic players is really limited due to the particular regulations (9 US players allowed per team) but some youngsters emerged this season and in particular over the last weeks.

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Tags: Johannes Lischka · Karsten Tadda · Per Günther · Philipp Schwethelm · Tibor Pleiß · Tim Ohlbrecht · Tom Spöler

Euro NCAA report

March 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

Over the past few weeks, I checked out the performances of some of the Europeans currently playing NCAA College basketball. The selection I made is not putting them in any order and is far from being complete but it covers those guys that I had the opportunity to see. So any additional comments by readers [...]

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Tags: Daniel Hackett · Dogus Balbay · Jeffery Taylor · Nikola Dragovic · Rihards Kuksiks · Terrence Oglesby

Today’s picks

December 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Here we go for some short notes before the Christmas break.

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Tags: Abdoulaye M'Baye · Nando de Colo · Rihards Kuksiks · Tim Ohlbrecht

An introduction to Finnish Prospects (Part 1)

December 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Finland is not known for their basketball qualities, but the country has so far produced 2 NBA Draft picks with Hanno Möttölä and Petteri Koponen. So I took the opportunity together with my friend Hippo to check who are the players to take a look at for the future.

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Tags: Antto Nikkarinen · Bojan Sarcevic · Sasu Salin

A closer look at the Buducnost Podgorica talents

November 9th, 2008 · No Comments

The Montenegrin team of Buducnost Podgorica features some very interesting players this season. Two of them come of an excellent start into the new Adriatic League season. I took a closer look at them this week.

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Tags: Nemanja Gordic · Sead Sehovic · Vladimir Dasic