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U18 European Championship 2012: The Bigs

September 9th, 2012 · 1 Comment

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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U18 European Championship 2012: the Final

August 20th, 2012 · No Comments

The last day of the U18 European Championship, but also the last day of the summer season with the different National Team events, saw Lithuania facing Croatia in a final match-up of the Scouting Period 2011/2012. The games did not only decide who will win Medals but also who is the last qualified nation from [...]

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U18 European Championship: Semi Finals Review

August 19th, 2012 · No Comments

My second day at the U18 European Championship 2012 in Lithuania was marked by the Semi-Finals. But before the major event, there was a decisive game in the relegation group that I wanted to cover.

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U18 European Championship: Quarterfinals Review

August 18th, 2012 · No Comments

The U18 European Championship came into its decisive phase today with the Quarterfinals in Siemens Arena Vilnius. The winners were sure to compete for a Medal but also to be qualified for the U19 World Championship that will be held 2013 in the Czech Republic. So let’s check what happened today.

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NIJT Belgrade 2012: the Bigs

March 6th, 2012 · 1 Comment

In the last part of our reports on the Nike International Junior Tournament in Belgrade, we will talk today about the big guys including the tournament MVP Dusan Ristic.

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NIJT Belgrade 2012: Day 3 Review

February 26th, 2012 · No Comments

The last day of the Nike International Junior Tournament in Belgrade came to an end with a great final between two teams that were on the same level. Let’s take a look what happened today in the packed Basket City Hall in Belgrade.

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NIJT Belgrade 2012: Day 2 Review

February 26th, 2012 · No Comments

The tight schedule of the Nike International Junior Tournament in Belgrade continued yesterday with the 4 remaining group games and the semi-finals. As there are always two games running at the same time, it is difficult to cover everything so here we go with the impressions of the day 2.

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NIJT Belgrade 2012: Day 1 Review

February 25th, 2012 · 3 Comments

After having arrived in the afternoon only, I had the possibility to follow one game from the Nike International Junior Tournament plus the Adriatic League game between Crvena Zvezda and KK Zagreb. So the report on the first day is quite short.

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U18 European Championships 2011: the Finals

July 31st, 2011 · No Comments

The last day in Wroclaw started with a visit to the second gym to follow the games for the 9-12th place before heading to the medal round. The teams competing for these places have some decent talent in their rosters so it was a good opportunity to get an update on them.

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U18 European Championships 2011: Semi-finals

July 30th, 2011 · No Comments

The second day in Wroclaw featured the very anticipated semi-finals of a tournament that was really open at this stage with no real favorite and no real stand-out players so far. But as always, the day started with the classification games.

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U18 European Championships 2011: Quarter-Finals

July 29th, 2011 · 1 Comment

We had already arrived in Wroclaw yesterday and after some tourist attractions this morning, it was time to go to the Hala Orbita for following the Quarter-Finals of the U18 European Championship 2011 of Division in Poland.

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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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Türk Telekom Tournament 2011 about to start

February 3rd, 2011 · 5 Comments

The largest international U16 Tournament in Europe will start this Saturday in Gaziantep in Turkey. After Serbia won the tournament in 2010 behind the 16pts and 12rebs of Nikola Jankovic, we will take a look at who are the players and teams to follow in this year’s edition.

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Serbia U18 League starts this weekend

October 30th, 2010 · 7 Comments

The Serbian U18 League, which is probably one of the most talented National Youth Leagues in Europe starts this weekend. 12 teams will compete for the National title in a regular season that qualifies 8 squads for the Final Tournament. Serbian Twitterer Miodrag Rakic published his players to follow and he allowed us to talk [...]

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NIJT Finals Paris 2010: the Big Guys

May 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment

In the last report of the Nike International Junior Tournament 2010 in Paris, I will talk about the big guys.

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NIJT Final 2010: Video Highlights

May 10th, 2010 · No Comments

Check here the Video Highlights of the last quarter of the 2010 edition of the Nike International Junior Tournament between INSEP and FMP Belgrade.

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INSEP beats FMP to get the NIJT Title 2010

May 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments

The Final game of this year’s Nike International Junior Tournament has been played this afternoon in the Palais Omnisports Paris-Barcy in front of approximately 1000 spectators. And it was the French hosts of INSEP that took the victory with them and kicked FMP from the throne. After the Serbians managed to beat the French team [...]

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NIJT 2010: Day 3 (live from Paris)

May 8th, 2010 · 5 Comments

The third day of the 2010 edition of the Nike International Junior Tournament ended with some drama as it was undecided until the very last game who will be in the Final tomorrow. Even if neither Cajasol nor Ljubljana still had a chance to reach the Final, the result of their was highly important to [...]

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NIJT 2010: Day 2 (live from Paris)

May 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment

The second day of the Nike International Junior Tournament in Paris is history and the games today were a lot more undecided than what we have seen yesterday. The play of the day was certainly the buzzer beating win of FMP versus KK Split.

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NIJT 2010: Who are the players to watch?

May 4th, 2010 · 6 Comments

The Nike International Junior Tournament is just a few hours away, so it was about time to check who are the players to look at. After having covered the two Qualification Tournaments in Rome and Belgrade, europeanprospects.com will also be in Paris over the full 4 days to give you a lot more information on [...]

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