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Nike International Junior Tournament Day 3 (live from Barcelona)

May 7th, 2011 · No Comments

The third day of the NIJT in Barcelona was filled with individual brilliance of some players and the confirmation of some of the hottest names of the last months. With KK Zagreb and Zalgiris Kaunas reaching the final, clearly the two best teams will fight tomorrow for the crown as both emerged as the most […]

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Nike International Junior Tournament Preview

May 2nd, 2011 · 1 Comment

The 9th edition of the Nike International Junior Tournament will be played from Thursday to Sunday at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona. The Euroleague has assembled two groups of four teams that compete in order to follow up on the first French victory which INSEP reached last year at home in Paris. We go […]

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U17 World Championship: the best of the rest

July 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Next to the four European teams that have reached the quarter-finals, I will take a quick look at the other participants to the U17 World Championship 2010. As Spain did not qualify for the last 8, I did not really have the opportunity to scout them so that they ended up in this review only.

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U17 World Championship: Quarter-Finals (Pt. 1)

July 9th, 2010 · No Comments

Today have been played the Quarter-Finals of the first ever U17 World Championship in Hamburg. In front of about 20 College and NBA scouts, 4 teams qualified for the semi-finals to be played on Saturday. The first two games featured only non-European teams, so let’s go for a review of their respective quarter-finals.

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U17 World Championship Preview: China

June 29th, 2010 · 4 Comments

Today, we take a look at the Chinese U17 team that will compete in the World Championships in Hamburg. The article though has not been written by a local Chinese journalist but it is based on different Chinese sources.

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