European Prospects

We arrived only for the second day of the Nike International Junior Tournament which explains the absence of any comment on Day One. So we start immediately with the coverage of the action from Friday of the Finals for this year’s biggest trophy in Junior Club Basketball.

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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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Tomorrow Monday starts the 7th edition of the Baltic Sea Basketball Cup for U16 and U18 Girls and Boys Basketball. The participating countries are Latvia, Finland, Sweden and the hosts from Estonia. This year, the U18 games can be watched online as Kullaauk.ee broadcasts live from Tallinn.

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The month of December/Christmas/New Year period is normally filled with interesting tournaments for Youth Basketball. We checked a few news and notes that are in relation with those upcoming events. For a full overview of the main tournaments, you can find it on our Tournament Agenda.

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Next to the U18 Tournament, the Nordic Championships also featured a U16 tournament. This competition was highly interesting as nearly all of the players were unknown to me, so I had a lot new potential to discover. I have put only those players in the report that had a major impact on the games during […]

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The third day of the Nordic Championships 2010 was also my last day in Sweden. I really liked the tournament and talent level was also very interesting. Here we go for the round-up of Friday’s action before the detailed player reports will go online somewhere next week.

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The second day of the 2010 edition of the Nordic Championships is over and we had the possibility to see all the teams at least once now. Here we go for the round-up of Thursday’s action.

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We arrived this morning in the sunny Stockholm to cover for the first time the Nordic Championships. This tournament features the U18 and U16 Boys and Girls National Teams of the five Scandinavian countries: Iceland, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Sweden as a host. Here is the roundup of the first day in the Boys competition.

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The different Swedish Youth Championships have been played over the last days and as Sweden is considered as one of the growing places in terms of Basketball, it was worth to take a closer look at who were the main players, especially also as a preparation for the Nordic Championships that europeanprospects.com will attend in […]

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With a few months of delay, here we go for a report on some of the most interesting players of the 2009 FIBA Europe U16 European Championship of Division B. As I could by far not see all players (I was limited to several games on tape), this report is far from being complete. The […]

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