Today, ratiopharm Ulm, the team of Robin Benzing played on the road in Frankfurt in front of the cameras of DSF so that I had the chance to see the progress of the German prospect since my last report.

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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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After an interesting Eurobasket this summer, Robin Benzing had to get back to business quickly as he signed his first Bundesliga contract this summer and needed to adapt to play for ratiopharm Ulm without doing the preparation with his new team. But his adaption phase was very short as Benzing is currently the third best [...]

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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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The different European Youth National Teams are in their preparation phase for the European Youth championships that will be played this summer. Here are some of the notes on the different teams as they have done so far.

The Greek U20 team will get the support from Florida Gator Nick Calathes this summer in the U20 [...]

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Here are the first impressions from the semi-finals day of the NBBL Top4 in Langen.

ALBA Berlin defeated Breitengüssbach in a relatively poor semi-final behind the nice scoring effort of Thomas Schoeps
The second semi-final has been won like last year by Team Urspring. The guys from Southern Germany started with an incredible 16-2 run which they [...]

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The rumors have been around for a few days now, today it is official. Robin Benzing will play for Michigan in the NCAA. The 2m10 tall German forward from TV Langen will continue his basketball education in Ann Arbor.

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In 10 days, the NBBL Top4 tournament will be played in Langen. On the 31st of May and the 1st of June, the German U19 champion will be decided. And the first thing to remember is that three of the four semi-finalist have already been at this stage of the competition last season. But let’s [...]

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The NCAA is still a very popular destination for some of Germany’s best prospects. And despite some problems with the NCAA regularization last year (you surely remember the case of Lucca Staiger and Fabian Böke who got suspended for one season), there is still a number of players that want to join the College league.

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The Euroleague has announced the winner of its Rising Star Trophy: it is Danilo Gallinari. I thought it would be Nikola Pekovic though but the selection committee took the Italian.
Today starts the Victor Rho tournament for U18 and U14 teams. All infos can be found on the official website. A few names from the [...]

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Here is also a recap of the four series of the South teams in the NBBL. Here also, some surprises arrived and we also had some impressive individual performances.

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The last day of the regular season of the German U19 NBBL has been played last weekend. So it is time to check who were the best performers of the last weeks and see where is the top talent of the 1989 and younger German generation.

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Last weekend was the NBBL All-Star game during the German All-Star Day. Here is a recap of the main prospects of that game.

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This Saturday, the NBBL All-Star game will be played in Mannheim in the SAP Arena. It will be a part of the German All-Star day. This year, the game will be a North vs. South game while last year, it was a NBBL All-Star team playing the German U20 team. Here is a short preview [...]

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Finally, Urspring Academy finished the Arby’s Classic at the 4th place, their best ever result. The Germans lost their last game against the Columbia Eagles 64-46 on Monday evening. When you look at the stats, you can imagine that the accumulation of games in the last two weeks made the team from Ralph Junge earn [...]

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