Today, I want to talk about something that I could observe during the last few weeks. I was thinking a bit about it, asking myself if that is something that has a place on this website. But in my opinion, as this website is read not only by scouts, fans, GMs and so on, but [...]

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Today, I want to present a truly innovating service to follow Youth Basketball in Europe. A German development team has created BallSide, a basketball team and statistics community and management website dedicated in particular to Youth Basketball. The goal of BallSide is the publication of statistics normally not available to the mass media as they [...]

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The French guard Jonathan Bourhis died today in a car accident. The 1990 born player from JDA Dijon crashed on the way back from a game at 6 o’clock this morning.

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After the whole European Youth Championships are over, the new season is just around the corner. While some teams are already preparing their 2009/2010 games, several prospects are still doing their job for the upcoming Eurobasket 2009.

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The 2009 FIBA U19 World Championship will very probably be played in New Zealand. According to the article of Bahrain Daily Gulf News, the Tall Black Nation is actually the only candidate for the organization as Bahrain has decided not to go through with a potential bid to host next year’s Under-19 World Basketball Championships.
Furthermore, [...]

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Tim Ohlbrecht, the promising inside player from Brose Baskets Bamberg signed for another year with the German team. The fact that he only signed for one more season shows also that he will probably not be in Germany after that date.
Interesting interview with the Swedish Jonas Jerebko on fibaeurope.com
2m17 at 16 years of age. That [...]

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FIBA Europe has effectuated the Draw of the different European championships yesterday in Venice. You can find the results of the U16, U18 and U20 Draws of both Division A and Division B together with the dates of the tournaments and the locations in our Tournament Agenda.
European Prospects will be present at some of these [...]

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Brazil is getting more and more important concerning importing young players to Europe. Especially the Spanish teams are very active in recruiting talent from the country of Nene and Anderson Varejao.

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Beside going to Mannheim today, I got some interesting news ahead of the German All-Star Day. In fact, FIBA is planning to organize a U17 World Championship in 2010 and Germany is one of the candidates for organizing it. I talked already several times about the changes that will come up in the German basketball [...]

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With the new year arriving, I have made a total update of European Prospects. I have switched to a new software and servers so that I can offer a better quality and layout of the website. The whole design is in a work in progress status so there will probably be some changes in the [...]

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