With the signing of Kim Tillie this Tuesday, the French team of ASVEL Lyon Villeurbanne has brought the next high-quality prospect to their team after having confirmed the arrival of Leo Westermann a few days ago. With the already under contract Bangaly Fofana, Paul Lacombe, Thomas Heurtel and Edwin Jackson and some interesting young players […]
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ASVEL builds a French future
May 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tags: ASVEL·Bangaly Fofana·Edwin Jackson·France Pro A·Kim Tillie·Leo Westermann·Paul Lacombe·Thomas Heurtel
NBA Draft 2010 European Early Entries Analysis (Pt. 2)
May 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment
Today we check out the second part of the NBA Draft Early entrants from Europe. This list contains mainly those players where the presence for the NBA Draft 2010 has only been announced a few days before the early entry deadline.
Tags: Bangaly Fofana·Dusan Korac·Fernando Raposo·Luc Louves·Miralem Halilovic·NBA Draft 2010·Ousmana Camara·Pablo Aguilar·Semen Shashkov·Stefan Bircevic·Uros Lukovic·Xavi Rabaseda
NBA Draft 2010 European Early Entries Analysis (Pt. 1)
April 29th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Today, the NBA released the official Early Entry Candidates List for the NBA Draft 2010. You can find the list of all the European players here. We will go through all of them and check where they will probably end up.
Tags: Andrew Albicy·Antoine Diot·Bojan Bogdanovic·Donatas Motiejunas·Edwin Jackson·Kevin Seraphin·Mindaugas Kuzminskas·NBA Draft 2010·Robin Benzing·Ryan Richards·Thomas Heurtel·Tibor Pleiss·Tomasz Nowakowski
Tibor Pleiss: the NBA-Interest sounds strange to me
March 29th, 2010 · No Comments
The German Center Tibor Pleiss gave recently an Interview to spox.com where he spoke about very interesting details on his past but also showed some surprise about the interest NBA Teams are having for him. You can read the full Interview in German here, I summed up the main parts in English.
Tags: Tibor Pleiss
Quick review on the ongoing EuroCup season
December 27th, 2009 · 4 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 […]
Tags: Alessandro Gentile·Alexey Shved·Antoine Diot·Boban Marjanovic·Carl Ona Embo·Dairis Bertans·David Jelinek·Deividas Gailius·Dimitry Khvostv·Donatas Motiejunas·Elmedin Kikanovic·eurocup·Janis Strelnieks·Karsten Tadda·Kevin Seraphin·Lauri Blaus·Marko Keselj·Milan Macvan·Mindaugas Kuzminskas·Nemanja Bjelica·Pere Tomas·Pietro Aradori·Stefan Markovic·Tibor Pleiss·Tim Ohlbrecht
Two German Bigs on the rise (Pt1: Tibor Pleiss)
December 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tim Ohlbrecht and Tibor Pleiss played with the German National Team this summer during the Eurobasket 2009 in Poland. Both changed their Club teams this summer too so that it was time to take a closer look at them how they have adapted to their new environment in a year that can already decisive in […]
Tags: Beko BBL·Brose Baskets Bamberg·Germany·Telekom Baskets Bonn·Tibor Pleiss·Tim Ohlbrecht
A quick update on Kevin Seraphin
December 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments
After a nice performance during the 2009 edition of the Nike Hoop Summit, a lot of observers had high hopes on the French Kevin Seraphin this season. With a newly signed three-year deal for Cholet, the 1989 born and 2m05 tall inside player had however a rough start into the season as he saw several […]
Tags: Cholet Basket·Kevin Seraphin·Nando de Colo·Rodrigue Beaubois
Bangaly Fofana debuts in the Euroleague
October 30th, 2009 · No Comments
The young French Center of ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne signed his debut in the Euroleague this week in the tough overtime home loss against Fenerbahce Ülker. The 1989 born and 2m12 tall player used the minutes he got because of the injury of Curtis Borchardt and it may remain his only major minutes of the Euroleague as […]
Tags: ASVEL·Bangaly Fofana·Curtis Borchardt·Emir Preldzic·Euroleague·Fenerbahce Ülker·Omer Asik
Living in America: Canarias BA alumni
October 17th, 2009 · No Comments
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.
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