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NBA Draft 2010 – Early Entry Candidates

OFFICIAL NBA DRAFT 2010 Early Entry Candidates List

Source: NBA.com

UPDATE: 16-6-2010

Kevin Seraphin
2m05 – Center – Cholet Basket (FRA) – France – 1989

  • Kevin Seraphin: Now listen to this Wizards June 25, 2010 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 th...
  • NBA Draft 2010: Quick Euro Analysis June 25, 2010 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 but...
  • Only 5 Europeans remain Early-Entries for the NBA Draft 2010 June 17, 2010 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 players....
  • NBA Draft 2010 European Early Entries Analysis (Pt. 1) April 29, 2010 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 – Ch...
  • Quick review on the ongoing EuroCup season December 27, 2009 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 loo...
  • A quick update on Kevin Seraphin December 13, 2009 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 a r...
  • 5 French Espoirs to follow this year October 10, 2009 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 poten...
  • Nike Hoop Summit 2009 review April 18, 2009 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 ki...


Thomas Heurtel
1m88 – PG – SIG Strasbourg (FRA) on loan from ASVEL (FRA) – France – 1989

  • Only 5 Europeans remain Early-Entries for the NBA Draft 2010 June 17, 2010 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 players....
  • Adidas Eurocamp Treviso 2010 Review (Part 1) June 9, 2010 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 a ...
  • ASVEL builds a French future May 26, 2010 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 Bangaly F...
  • NBA Draft 2010 European Early Entries Analysis (Pt. 1) April 29, 2010 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 – Ch...
  • Did Thomas Heurtel really progress? March 24, 2010 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 – SI...
  • Thomas Heurtel vs. Andrew Albicy: a PG watch October 21, 2009 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 in...
  • Prospect of the month: October 2008 November 2, 2008 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 may...
  • Prospect update: Thomas Heurtel October 26, 2008 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 team t...
  • Today's picks (from U20 Tournament) July 20, 2008 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 perform...
  • Today's picks (live from Reebok Eurocamp Treviso) June 8, 2008 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 the ...


Ryan Richards
2m06 – PF – BBC Monthey (SUI) on loan from Gran Canaria (ESP) – England – 1991

  • Ryan Richards: the next step in a career odyssey June 26, 2010 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 the N...
  • NBA Draft 2010: Quick Euro Analysis June 25, 2010 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 but...
  • Only 5 Europeans remain Early-Entries for the NBA Draft 2010 June 17, 2010 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 players....
  • NBA Draft 2010 European Early Entries Analysis (Pt. 1) April 29, 2010 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 – Ch...
  • Today's picks (from the U18 European Championships) July 25, 2008 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 everywhere ...
  • U18 European Championship Division B - Preview July 24, 2008 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 ...
  • Today's picks May 24, 2008 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 the p...
  • Nike International Junior Tournament (Part 2) May 6, 2008 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 of...


Tibor Pleiß
2m14 – C – Brose Baskets Bamberg (GER) – Germany – 1989

  • Euroleague 2010/2011 Preview: Group B October 18, 2010 Today started the Euroleague season 2010/2011 with the opening game in the Group B between Olympiacos and Real Madrid. So it is about time to check who are the players to follow in the different groups of this season. We will go through the different grou...
  • “This guy called Wall, I have never heard of him” August 15, 2010 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 Pleiss,...
  • Tibor Pleiss: from the Circus-Tent to the NBA June 25, 2010 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 Pres...
  • NBA Draft 2010: Quick Euro Analysis June 25, 2010 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 but...
  • Only 5 Europeans remain Early-Entries for the NBA Draft 2010 June 17, 2010 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 players....
  • NBA Draft 2010 European Early Entries Analysis (Pt. 1) April 29, 2010 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 – Ch...
  • Tibor Pleiss: the NBA-Interest sounds strange to me March 29, 2010 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 here, ...
  • Quick review on the ongoing EuroCup season December 27, 2009 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 loo...
  • Two German Bigs on the rise (Pt1: Tibor Pleiss) December 23, 2009 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 enviro...
  • Eurobasket 2009: the NBA Draft candidates September 21, 2009 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 playe...
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  • Today's picks October 20, 2008 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 littl...
  • An afternoon with German prospects September 28, 2008 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 its ...
  • NBBL Regular Season Review February 20, 2008 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 (1989...
  • Today's picks January 22, 2008 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 conf...


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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