After arriving in Italy and a first day at the La Ghirada Sportcomplex, here are my first thoughts about the camp so far.

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The Portland Trailblazers worked out several European prospects theses days. Here are the videos of theses sessions.

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Today, the Reebok Eurocamp organization published the official list of the players that will attend the camp. As we had already a pre-published list of players that we were talking about a few days ago, I will limit myself to the changes made by Pete Philo and crew.

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Here is the list of the participants of the NBA Basketball without Borders Camp in Istanbul. This camp features the best players in Europe born in 1991 and 1992.

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Here is the part two of the NBBL Top4 Review.

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After a sweaty weekend in Langen, I am back home now and give you a detailed report about the Final event of the German U19 League. The four teams that qualified for the Final phase were already present last season with the exception of ALBA Berlin who reached the final phase instead of Phoenix Hagen. So we saw a Final between the old and new Champion Team Urspring while TSV Breitengüssbach defeated Bonn-Rhöndorf for the third place.

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Here are the first impressions from the semi-finals day of the NBBL Top4 in Langen.

• ALBA Berlin defeated Breitengüssbach in a relatively poor semi-final behind the nice scoring effort of Thomas Schoeps
• The second semi-final has been won like last year by Team Urspring. The guys from Southern Germany started with an incredible 16-2 run which they managed until the end of the game
• The tropical weather in Langen made a really heavy atmosphere in the gym. Extremely high humidity and temperatures of more than 30 degrees Celsius impacted the games.
• Maurice Stuckey came up with the most impressive performance of the semi-finals. One day after his 18th birthday, Stuckey hit 8 three pointers to score 28pts, grabbed 9 rebounds and stole 4 balls.
• The awards of the NBBL season were for Christian Standhardinger (MVP), Mathias Perl (Best defender) and Kevin Bright (Best youngster, born in 1992 or before)
• Bonn had to play without Sascha Wahlbröhl because he was not ready after his injury. For Urpsring, Thierno Agne had his comeback after a long pause.
• Michigan recruit Robin Benzing was also in the gym. He controlled the tickets of the spectators…

The name of Kaloyan Ivanov bounced into the NBA Draft process last year when the Bulgarian PF declared himself to the Early Entrants list before retiring his name afterwards. This season where he is automatically eligible, we did not hear a lot about him so far, so that I decided to check what he is doing and if he can still be considered as a prospect.

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With 30 days left until the 2008 NBA Draft, the sprint around the Globe for GM’s, scouts and other executives has begun. And europeanprospects.com comes up with its latest Mock Draft Review to check what are the trends in the most popular Mocks on the Web.

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With the Reebok Eurocamp starting off in just 10 days, I will give an update on those players that did not get invited or won’t be present in Treviso for several reasons. I will start with the German PF Tim Ohlbrecht.

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• 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 preparation phase of the U18 European Championship this summer
• The 9th Meneghin - De Silvestro International Basketball Tournament in Domegge (Italy) will feature the following U20 National teams from 18th to 20th July: Italy, Greece, Slovenia and Georgia
• PAOK Salonici qualified for the Final of the Greek Youth Championships behind the huge scoring efforts of Charis Giannopoulos
• This weekend, the Cadets tournament in Riom faces off the U16 National teams of France, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Latvia. Find here the French and the Slovenian rosters.
• The Adidas Nations Africa team will play the Douai tournament this year. Check here for some names that will probably be on the roster

The rumors have been around for a few days now, today it is official. Robin Benzing will play for Michigan in the NCAA. The 2m10 tall German forward from TV Langen will continue his basketball education in Ann Arbor.

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While the list have not been published on the official website of the camp, the usually well informed sources have the names already online for a few days. Here are the names then again with a few comments from my side.

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In 10 days, the NBBL Top4 tournament will be played in Langen. On the 31st of May and the 1st of June, the German U19 champion will be decided. And the first thing to remember is that three of the four semi-finalist have already been at this stage of the competition last season. But let’s check the teams in general.

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Today, the French press announced the MVP trophies of the last season for the ProA and ProB league. And the least one could say is that these votings have been dominated by young prospects.

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The NCAA is still a very popular destination for some of Germany’s best prospects. And despite some problems with the NCAA regularization last year (you surely remember the case of Lucca Staiger and Fabian Böke who got suspended for one season), there is still a number of players that want to join the College league.

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The list of the European early-entrants has been published a few days ago, so I took the time to go over it and give you my opinion, who will get drafted, who will take his name out again and other thoughts on the list.

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The last part of my International Junior Tournament report talks about the two finalists: FC Barcelona and FMP Zeleznik Belgrade. FMP has reached with this win the deserved European crown for Junior teams and it does not look like any other European club team is at their level right now.

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The next part of the Junior Tournament Report talks about the two Lithuanian teams of Lietuvos Rytas and Zalgiris Kaunas. Both were very different. While Lietuvos Rytas’ game was based a lot on their guards play, the Zalgiris team lived essentially from their inside guys.

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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.

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