Source: NBA.com
UPDATE: 16-6-2010
Kevin Seraphin
2m05 – Center – Cholet Basket (FRA) – France – 1989
With the number of European prospects drafted this year, I decided to have a review on every specific player. The first name that has been announced was Kevin Seraphin from France. It looked like David Stern has specifically practiced his French before... The NBA Draft 2010 is in the books and the number of European players picked by the Franchises has not been as low for years. With one player in the first round and only four in the second round, Europe was under-represented compared to the last years ... The number of Europeans that stay in the NBA Draft 2010 as Early-Entry players has dropped to only 5. A multitude of big talents have opted out or did not even declare this spring so that the 2011 edition looks to be highly promising for European playe... 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. Kevin Serpahin – 2m05 – C –... 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 ... 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 ... 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 po... The Nike Hoop Summit 2009 has seen the first victory of the World Select team since Dirk Nowitzki in 1998. The team of coach Rob Beveridge took over the lead in the final minutes of the game despite being athletically far behind the more spectacular US...
Thomas Heurtel
1m88 – PG – SIG Strasbourg (FRA) on loan from ASVEL (FRA) – France – 1989
The number of Europeans that stay in the NBA Draft 2010 as Early-Entry players has dropped to only 5. A multitude of big talents have opted out or did not even declare this spring so that the 2011 edition looks to be highly promising for European playe... The Adidas Eurocamp in Treviso is done for 2010 and I must admit that the overall level was lower than during the previous editions. There was only a limited number of direct 2010 NBA Draft prospects and no overwhelming new additions. Today, we go over... 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 Bangal... 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. Kevin Serpahin – 2m05 – C –... This is the question that the leading weekly French Basketball magazine Basketnews asked recently. They discussed this point in a long story out of which europeanprospects.com will report you some extracts. Thomas Heurtel (1m84 – Guard – 1989 –... Today, I take a look at two young French PGs that play interesting roles in their respective teams. While Thomas Heurtel has already a full season of ProA basketball behind him (and a relegation with Pau-Orthez), Andrew Albicy has his first ProA season... With the new seasons that have started, we also go again for the vote of Prospect of the month. This year, we consider the generations from 1987 to 1991. As it is always very tough to find the right first choice for every year, I had some choices that ... One of the nice surprises in this beginning of the season in France is PG Thomas Heurtel. The player of Elan Béarnais Pau Lacq Orthez is compiling very regular statistical performances as a back-up and totally deserves his large playing time. In a tea... Some more notes from the U20 Tournament that has been played in Luxembourg this week.
France continued their run to finish the tournament unbeaten. And it was also Kim Tillie that continued his impressive play during this tournament. After the perf... After arriving in Italy and a first day at the La Ghirada Sportcomplex, here are my first thoughts about the camp so far.
Rudy Mbemba is once again the highest jumping (38" vertical) and the fastest guy (2.51 sec for the half court sprint) in t...
Ryan Richards
2m06 – PF – BBC Monthey (SUI) on loan from Gran Canaria (ESP) – England – 1991
The British with Jamaican background Ryan Richards was the youngest of all the Europeans drafted in 2010. After an odyssey through different teams and countries, the Kent raised has now made his first step into the direction of his dream: playing in th... The NBA Draft 2010 is in the books and the number of European players picked by the Franchises has not been as low for years. With one player in the first round and only four in the second round, Europe was under-represented compared to the last years ... The number of Europeans that stay in the NBA Draft 2010 as Early-Entry players has dropped to only 5. A multitude of big talents have opted out or did not even declare this spring so that the 2011 edition looks to be highly promising for European playe... 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. Kevin Serpahin – 2m05 – C –... Here are my thoughts on the first day of both U18 Championships that started today.
Division A
Croatia did not have too much problems to beat a Latvian team that won't probably repeat their Bronze medal act from last year. Mario Delas was everywhe... 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 kno... Interview with Ryan Richards during the Nike International Junior Tournament. A few plays from Nicolo Melli during the Legadue playoffs Check out the main French prospects of the ProA in Video German U18 NT coach Kay Blümel selected 20 players for th... After the first part of my recap of the Nike International Junior Tournament yesterday, here is the second part of the report which contains player profiles of Cibona Zagreb and Real Madrid junior teams.
When we talk about Cibona Zagreb, we have...
Tibor Pleiß
2m14 – C – Brose Baskets Bamberg (GER) – Germany – 1989
This weekend, the BEKO Super-Cup is being held in Bamberg. Germany, Lithuania, Turkey and Croatia prepare the upcoming World Championship. Similar to last summer, the German National Team features a large number of interesting prospects like Tibor Plei... The German big guy Tibor Pleiss was the 2nd European player drafted in the 2010 NBA. He was picked by the New Jersey Nets who traded him to the Atlanta Hawks. The Hawks then sold his rights to the Oklahoma City Thunder for close to 3,000,000 USD. Sam P... The NBA Draft 2010 is in the books and the number of European players picked by the Franchises has not been as low for years. With one player in the first round and only four in the second round, Europe was under-represented compared to the last years ... The number of Europeans that stay in the NBA Draft 2010 as Early-Entry players has dropped to only 5. A multitude of big talents have opted out or did not even declare this spring so that the 2011 edition looks to be highly promising for European playe... 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. Kevin Serpahin – 2m05 – C –... 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 her... 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 ... 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 env... 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 pl... I took a deeper look into the most interesting prospects coming of the German Bundesliga this week. The number of domestic players is really limited due to the particular regulations (9 US players allowed per team) but some youngsters emerged this seas...
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 li... Today, I had the possibility to follow two games of the German Bundesliga that featured some of the most promising prospects that see the floor on a regular basis. Here is my report about these three young men.
Cologne has changed its team and i... 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.
Matthias Hurst (1...
An interesting update in Spanish about Giorgi Shermadini including some interesting videos of the Georgian seven footer.
NBA Draft.net has translated an article about another European giant: Boban Marjanovic
The Douai Tournament organisation c...
Dusan Korac
Centar BP (MNG) – Montenegro – 1991
Antoine Diot –> WITHDRAW
1m91 – PG – Le Mans (FRA) – France – 1989
Edwin Jackson –> WITHDRAW
1m91 – G – Rouen (FRA) on loan from ASVEL (FRA) – France – 1989
Andrew Albicy –> WITHDRAW
1m78 – PG – Paris-Levallois (FRA) – France – 1990
Robin Benzing –> WITHDRAW
2m08 – SF – ratiopharm Ulm (GER) – Germany – 1989
Tomasz Nowakowski –> WITHDRAW
2m09 – PF – Luka Koper (SLO) – Poland – 1990
Mindaugas Kuzminskas –> WITHDRAW
2m03 – SF/PF – Siauliai (LIT) on loan from Zalgiris Kaunas (LIT) – Lithuania – 1989
Bojan Bogdanovic –> WITHDRAW
2m02 – SG/SF – Cibona Zagreb (CRO) – Croatia – 1989
Donatas Motiejunas –> WITHDRAW
2m13 – PF/C – Benetton Treviso (ITA) – Lithuania – 1990
Xavi Rabaseda –> WITHDRAW
1m99 – SG – FC Barcelona (ESP) – Spain – 1989
Stefan Bircevic –> WITHDRAW
2m09 – PF – Metalac (SRB) – Serbia – 1989
Uros Lukovic –> WITHDRAW
2m12 – C – Radnicki Basket (SRB) – Serbia – 1989
Bangaly Fofana –> WITHDRAW
2m12 – C – ASVEL Villeurbanne (FRA) – France – 1989
Pablo Aguilar –> WITHDRAW
2m03 – SF/PF – Granada (ESP) – Spain – 1989
Ousmane Sarra Camara –> WITHDRAW
2m04 – PF/C – Le Havre (FRA) – France – 1989
Miralem Halilovic –> WITHDRAW
2m06 – SF – Fenerbahce Ülker (TUR) – Bosnia/Herzegovina – 1991
Luc Louves –> WITHDRAW
2m07 – PF – Maurienne (FRA) – France – 1989
Fernando Raposo –> WITHDRAW
2m06 – PF – Pau-Lacq-Orthez (FRA) – France – 1989
Semen Shashkov –> WITHDRAW
2m00 – SF – Ural Ekaterinburg (RUS) – Russia – 1989
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