European Prospects

A new year has started so it is time for the reviews and recaps of the past 12 months. This time, I wanted to try something new. Got a Kindle for Christmas or do you have an e-book reader already? I don’t but I wanted to check what is the potential of publishing an EuropeanProspects.com [...]

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With two Germans (Niels Giffey, Enosch Wolf) in the race to win the National Championship of NCAA Basketball tonight, I was looking backwards to see how many Europeans have so far won this trophy and what they are up to at the moment. This list is certainly not complete and it will be updated throughout [...]

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This summer, the US website and Scouting Service ScoutsFocus will put together a AAU Team featuring mainly European Players. ScoutsFocus is a national scouting service dedicated based in North Carolina with the aim of finding overlooked and underexposed players as well as highlighting the top ranked players in the country.

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After having reviewed the 5 events that have marked my year 2010, I take a look forward today in order to predict the 5 things that may be the main storylines in 2011. Once again, these 5 stories are in no particular order and only represent my personal opinion.

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Here we go for a very specific and personal review of the Year 2010 with the events that have marked me the most in a positive or negative way. The aim of this post is not to point out all the major events that have happened over the last 12 months but specifically picking out [...]

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Today starts the EuroCup Regular season with three Live games that can be watched online on Eurosport. The evening starts at 19h00 CET with the game between Anwil Wloclawek and ALBA Berlin. At 20h15 CET, the match between ASVEL and BG Göttingen is a lot more interesting as the French team features some interesting young [...]

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The NCAA season 2010/2011 is approaching so it is about time to take a look what happened this summer in College basketball in relation with European talent. We go over the main players recruited from the 2010 class and take a look forward to the Class of 2011 and 2012.

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The Eurocup Qualification Round started yesterday with the first two games and a big win of Benetton Treviso in Cyprus. We will take a quick preview at the games that will be broadcasted by Eurosport2 and that will be available through LIVE Stream on the Eurosport Player.

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With the 2010-2011 seasons to start within the next days and weeks in Europe, I did some research on the 2009-2010 season to compare the age of the players in the main European leagues. Most of the teams publish average ages of the roster but the goal of this analysis was to find out the [...]

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A subject that I am following for quite some time now is how the Spanish Basketball will develop on a long term basis as youth teams are importing more and more foreign players. The recent Spanish U18 championship was the perfect place to make an analysis of the situation as a last-second rule modification will [...]

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Europeanprospects.com has always been a trailblazer in the Basketball Blogging universe. We were the first Blog speaking exclusively about Young European basketball players and we participated to the launch of the first-ever general English-speaking-only Basketball Blog about European Basketball, i.e. BallinEurope. The content of the website has always been free despite having a multitude of [...]

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Over the last years, nearly all of the European College recruits got suspended by the NCAA for having played in professional teams despite not being paid. The most known examples are of course German Lucca Staiger or Turkish Deniz Kilicli who both had to sit out either a full season or a large part of [...]

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With the success of Jonas Jerebko in the NBA, Sweden has emerged on the map of Basketball followers recently. But Jerebko is not only the first Swede to play in the NBA, he is the first sign of a big movement in the Scandinavian country to improve the playing level of their different national teams. [...]

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The French League LNB has decided yesterday to introduce the “Home Grown Player” status from the 2010-2011 season. This will be a major change as this will be first country to adopt this new status as it has been defined previously in discussion between the UEFA and the European Union.

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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