European Prospects

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 Presti and his team got what they wanted and for what they even were as high as using their 18th pick in the 1st round according to rumors.

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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 draft as he started his announcement with a very proud “Now listen to this” that he found so funny that he continued his speech with a little smirk on his face. So let’s check out who Seraphin really is, you better listen to this Wizards fans.

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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 it will probably be a different story in 2011.

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With the NBA Draft 2010 only hours away, we will start a countdown to the big event regrouping all the news, rumors and echoes around European players in this year’s edition. Feel free to add your comments below if you hear anything that you think is important in relation with the Draft 2010. The NBA Draft 2010 will start at 7pm EST in New York City on Thursday which corresponds to 1am European Time on Friday 25th June. Follow us on our Twitter Account in order to get notified when the Countdown got updated.

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With the European Championships coming closer, the number of preparation tournaments is increasing as well. This week, two major events will be played in Turkey and France. We took a quick look at both tournaments.

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We have talked already about this movie once but as the NBA Draft 2010 is approaching, I can only highly recommend again this film created by the French Nicolas de Virieu who accompanied Nicolas Batum and Alexis Ajinca to the 2008 NBA Draft. Even if the movie is only available in French, all the English dialogues have been subtitled so that a major part is understandable by anybody. Have fun watching the two Frenchmen fulfilling their dreams and get drafted by an NBA team and get an inside look to the whole NBA Draft process.

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With the NBA Draft 2010 being held this week, it is about time to check the current situation of the automatically eligible Europeans.

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This weekend have been played the first qualification games for the German Youth Leagues. Both the NBBL U19 and the JBBL U16 leagues have more teams wanting to compete than open spots so that every summer a qualification tournament to fill the open spots is played.

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Here we go for the recap of the most important tweets of the last 2 weeks. Follow me live on Twitter here.

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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. I will talk about that in a later article. But let’s take a quick look first at who remains in and why.

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