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My 5 predictions for 2011

January 3rd, 2011 · 3 Comments

After having reviewed the 5 events that have marked my year 2010, I take a look forward today in order to predict the 5 things that may be the main storylines in 2011. Once again, these 5 stories are in no particular order and only represent my personal opinion.

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Nikola Mirotic getting his minutes (VIDEO)

December 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment

The Montenegrin-Spanish Nikola Mirotic is getting more and more minutes with Real Madrid at the moment. After scoring 3pts in 5 minutes of Euroleague action against Unicaja last week, the 2m08 tall forward, born in 1991 played 19 minutes in the ACB game against the same this weekend. Check out below for a Video of […]

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Euroleague 2010/2011 Preview: Group B

October 18th, 2010 · No Comments

Today started the Euroleague season 2010/2011 with the opening game in the Group B between Olympiacos and Real Madrid. So it is about time to check who are the players to follow in the different groups of this season. We will go through the different groups and point out who are the players that we […]

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U20 European Championship Preview

July 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Today starts the first European Championship of the summer with the U20 Tournament to be held in Croatia. 16 teams compete for the Medals and 2 teams will drop down to Division B. Europeanprospects.com checked the level of the different participants.

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Tweets of the week (Week 21 + 1/2 – 2010)

June 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

With a little delay, here we go for the main Tweets of my Twitter account over the last 10 days. As there will be probably a lot more over the next days when I will be in Treviso, a quick round-up today will be good.

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Which future for Spanish Basketball?

May 27th, 2010 · 13 Comments

A subject that I am following for quite some time now is how the Spanish Basketball will develop on a long term basis as youth teams are importing more and more foreign players. The recent Spanish U18 championship was the perfect place to make an analysis of the situation as a last-second rule modification will […]

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Nike Hoop Summit 2010 review

April 19th, 2010 · 5 Comments

Last weekend has been played the Nike Hoop Summit in Portland. The annual event did not feature that many Europeans this year because some major prospects had to decline their invitation for different reasons. We took a quick look at the most interesting players in the World Team.

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Nike Hoop Summit World Team 2010 unveiled

March 17th, 2010 · 8 Comments

Today, the Nike Hoop Summit World Team has been announced. The team will compete against a US selection in Portland on the 10th of April. The World team is this time a real worldwide selection as it features only 3 players currently being active in Europe and members from 4 different continents.

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Heavy weekend picks

April 10th, 2009 · 13 Comments

This Easter weekend is once again packed with interesting tournaments and events around European Youth basketball. I try to give a short preview about all the stuff that you can follow throughout the net over the upcoming days.

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Hospitalet 2009: Review

January 11th, 2009 · No Comments

As I was not present myself in Hospitalet, I publish this report on the tournament that I got from my friend Gerrit Kersten-Thiele who was in Spain for two days.

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