European Prospects

In the second part of our Living in America series, we spoke with the Georgian guard Duda Sanadze who has arrived to San Diego this summer.

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The Nike International Junior Tournament 2013 has been won by the local team from Lietuvos Rytas who beat Zalgiris Kaunas in the Final. See below for some Video Highlights of the games with Lithuanian participation.

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Boise State has recruited two European players this summer with the Latvian PF Edmunds Dukulis and the Serbian SF Vukasin Vujovic. We spoke with the two players to get a better feeling for their choice to play in the United States and how it feels to be in such an international team like Boise State.

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Having seen Alex Len during the summer 2010 in the U18 European Championship at the age of 17, you could already see what kind of talent he is. After having moved to the United States and played a short freshman season with Maryland, it is about time to make an update on his situation as he is currently being considered as a NBA Draft 2013 lottery pick.

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The third day of the Nike International Junior Tournament saw the Finals between Fenerbahce Ulker and Spars Sarajevo where the Bosnian team qualified for the Final event in London during the Euroleague Final 4. See below for the highlights, stats and Interviews of the last day in Rome.

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The second day of the Nike International Junior Tournament in Rome was decisive about the qualifications for the Finals. Check below to see the Video highlights and the stats of all the games.

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Europeanprospects.com has not been in Rome this year to follow the first of the Nike International Junior Tournament Qualification events. 8 teams tried to advance to the final in order to have a chance to qualify for London, but only one team could make it. Check below for the highlights and the stats of the first day.

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As the Euroleague goes into its second phase with only the 16 best teams left, it is about time to check who were the prospects that rocked during the regular season. Next to the Partizan youth squad, Klemen Prepelic was one of the positive surprises of the season. Let’s see what makes the Slovenian guard so special.

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Rudy Gobert is currently the hottest name in terms of European chances to get selected in the NBA Draft 2013 among the lottery picks. As his game is already pretty much known and as we reported already several times about him, I wanted to go for a little more background information on the French inside player that is currently scouted by dozens of NBA executives that are touring through the European winter.

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After being on the radar in Germany for the last four years, Philipp Neumann is currently playing his break-out season for the German champions Brose Baskets. The German big guy is seeing regular and quality minutes in the Euroleague and the Bundesliga and is showing nice progress over the last months. Not very well known as an NBA prospect because he never participated to the Adidas Eurocamp, Neumann is developing into one of the most promising undrafted European big men.

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After four games into the season and just before the clash at home with Brose Baskets Bamberg, it is about time to make an analysis of the main young prospects in the Serbian roster. Four players are clearly stepping up their game this season so let’s check how they did so far in the toughest competition of the continent.

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(Luís Cristóvão) When you talk about Basketball, Portugal isn’t the place you go looking for young talent. Mostly, because the Portuguese don’t usually are in the big competitions. With almost no teams playing in European Cups (Benfica was the exception in the 2010/11 Eurochallenge) and a weak National Team (after making it to Eurobasket 2011, losing all the five matches, Portugal lost their eight games in the Eurobasket 2013 Qualifications). But, still, talent watchers should follow what’s going on the Portuguese League.

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I talked this week with Dave Hein from heinnews.com in his podcast Taking the charge about European players moving to College and some of the main prospects from the Youth tournaments of the summer. You can find the article about the podcast here or just listen to the show that included also some other guests and topics.

This week, the Euroleague season 2012/13 will start but the excitement for talent scouts remains a bit limited as the number of interesting prospects has gone down. The most talented players are not yet ready for being a major factor in the Euroleague so that the number of NBA Draft picks coming from the Euroleague this season might remain small. We have chosen nevertheless five players that are worth to follow, hence not really for NBA Draft aficionados. However, our wildcard does not go to a specific player this time, so enjoy.

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In the next part of our season preview, we take a look at the players to follow in the French ProA. This preview does not feature Rudy Gobert who has already been presented in a previous article and I will not speak either of Mam Jaiteh who will play in the Pro B this season. Check below if you want to know who might be the most interesting prospects of the upcoming season in the highest French division.

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After having discussed already 5 players to follow for the NBA Draft 2012, we will take a look today at 5 players (and a Wildcard) in the Beko BBL. These players should be able to significantly improve their presence this season. We do not mention in this preview Maxi Kleber who was already talked about in our previous article.

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The new season in Europe is about to start and there are several players that are already emerging in the different pre-season tournaments as potential NBA Draft picks 2013. We selected five players and a Wildcard that we suggest you should follow particularly well as they might end up as some of the most intriguing prospects in the spring 2013.

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In the final part of the reports on the U18 European Championship of Division A, we will talk today about the big guys that stood out.

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In our second part of the U18 European Championship reporting, we take a look at the major wing prospects of the event. Of course, Dario Saric will not be discussed in this article as he was featured already in a separate post. Once again, the players from the team ranked 9 to 12 are not in this article as I was unable to follow a game of these teams.

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In our first part of scouting reports about the U18 European Championship, I will talk about the main guard prospects. Please not that I could not scout the teams of Turkey, Slovenia, Greece and Ukraine which explains why no players from these nations will be in the reports. Some of the players I saw already during the Albert-Schweitzer Tournament are not featured either, mainly because they showed no particular progress since the Mannheim event that was scheduled a few months ago.

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