The Toronto Raptors are currently scouting throughout Europe. GM Bryan Colangelo will be in Cologne next Friday to scout the German seven-footer Tibor Pleiss
The German U19 NBBL has started last weekend. I will come back to the top performers a little later in the season
Victor Claver looks very promising in this beginning of the season. [...]

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Here are my thoughts about the ending U18 and starting U20 European Championships.

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Here are my thoughts on the 2nd day of the U18 European Championships of Division A and B.

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Here are my thoughts on the first day of both U18 Championships that started today.

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Not only the Division  A of the U18 European Championship will start this weekend, but also the Division B will have its first games on Friday in Debrecen, Hungary. To preview this tournament is quite more difficult because lots of nations are not known for producing elite prospects, but this year, the tournament looks particularly [...]

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Finally, we come to the big guys present in Douai. And here, the quality was rather high with some top European talent but also good prospects from Africa and the United States.

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Back in the Salle Corot for the Finals day of the tournament and the most important games of the week.

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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 last part of my International Junior Tournament report talks about the two finalists: FC Barcelona and FMP Zeleznik Belgrade. FMP has reached with this win the deserved European crown for Junior teams and it does not look like any other European club team is at their level right now.

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This weekend were played the Slovenian U19 championships in a Final Four modus in the hometown of the Mario Primorac Basketball school. The former player of ALBA Berlin reached as coach the semi-finals of the championship with his team but lost there against KK Parklji. The Finals have been dominated by KD Geoplin Slovan.

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After having analyzed in the detail the four best placed European nations of the tournament, I will come back to the other European teams, unfortunately only in a shorter fashion as I saw these teams only once in Mannheim. Also, I will limit myself really to the main players of these teams in order to [...]

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The Albert Schweitzer Tournament is over and it is time to talk about the players and the tournament in general. The first article will be about the level of the tournament and a report about the best non-European players.

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Before returning to Mannheim for the Finals day tomorrow, here are some important facts of the last two days.

The Final will be the awaited Greece - Turkey clash. It will be loud and rowdy in the US Sports Arena tomorrow.
Nikos Pappas is the absolute favorite for the MVP trophy. The Greek guard went for 39pts [...]

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Our reader Guillaume Althoffer has sent us a quick report on the most promising prospects in this year’s edition of the Cholet Mondial Basket tournament. Here are his notes on the players.

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Before heading off to Mannheim, here are a few picks out of yesterday’s action.

Spain is dominating its group. After a 40pts success against New Zealand, the team from Iberia also demolished Croatia by 38. And it was once again a nice team effort with 5 guys in double figures. Title candidate?
Some nations are already out [...]

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After the first two games of the NBBL Playoffs, we come up with a little update on the best of 3 series.

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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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Ricky Rubio is still amazing (13pts 5rebs 5asts 2stls), even if his team lost this weekend against local rivals Barcelona. However, he had a very special move to score against the whole Barcelona defense.
Predrag Samardziski came up with a huge statistical effort this week in the Adriatic League. He destroyed Geoplin Slovan with 19pts (8/11), [...]

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This year’s edition of the Onil U18 Tournament ended with the success of the Spanish U18 team. The second place was for Turkey, while Germany beat Croatia for the third place.
The Spanish PG Alejandro Hernandez, a NBA Basketball Without Borders participant in 2006 and member of the Youth teams of FC Barcelona, got elected MVP [...]

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Yesterday, Ursrping Academy started their second tournament of this year’s High School Tour to the United States at the popular Arby’s Classic. In the opening game, the German team had to play without their top scorer Christian Standhardinger and 1991 born Forward Justin Raffington who both were out because of illness.

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