European Prospects

The German U19 League NBBL has reached the end of the first half of the season 2010/2011 last weekend. As the NBBL All-Star game is approaching (22nd January 2011 at 17h00 in Trier ), we take a look at the most effective players of the season so far in terms of statistical production.

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The German Basketball Academy from Urspring, that produced already several Division 1 players (Lucca Staiger, Christian Standhardinger, Justin Raffington,…) will participate at two prestigious tournaments in the USA during the Christmas Break. They will play the City of Palms Classic Signature Series where they will face Westchester County Day on the 20th December. After this […]

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The month of December/Christmas/New Year period is normally filled with interesting tournaments for Youth Basketball. We checked a few news and notes that are in relation with those upcoming events. For a full overview of the main tournaments, you can find it on our Tournament Agenda.

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LNB Espoirs Player of the week: Fabien Paschal again with 19pts 15rebs 2blks and 29eff # Die spielen für ein Lux. Team RT @gruebler: Ich find die Trierer Blechbläser Klasse. Das gehört in alle Hallen. #bbl_de # Follow Mantas Mockevicius on Twitter.com/mocke8 More on the 1993 born Lithuanian here: http://digs.by/a0mNqv # Former team of Dirk […]

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Twitter updates of the last week can be found here.

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Last weekend started the 2010/2011 season of the German U19 NBBL League. The league features the players born in 1994,93 and 92 this season. Even if the 1992 born players are still eligible to play on this level, most of them are already a part of the rotation of professional teams on ProA or ProB […]

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The German U17 National Team came with the ambitions to reach the Quarter-Finals in Hamburg. This goal was reached but somehow, the team of coach Menz disappeared a bit after their elimination on Friday and could not build on their excellent showing from the Albert-Schweitzer Tournament in spring.

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In the two other quarter-finals it was all European with Germany facing Lithuania and Serbia being the opponent of Poland.

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The hosts of the first ever U17 World Championship come with high hopes to the competition. Germany did not qualify by the result but the team has shown its value during the Albert Schweitzer Tournament in spring. Kay Blümel gives us his opinion on the German U17 National Team.

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With the regular seasons coming to an end in most of the countries, there are more and more federations publishing preliminary rosters for the different Summer events like the U17 World Championships or the different European Championships. We took a closer look at some of the names that have been published over the last days.

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