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May 27th, 2009 · 7 Comments

The upcoming European and World Championships are coming closer so that the first preliminary rosters get published. Additionally, some interesting news around the NBA Draft.

  • The French U19 for the World Championship got published today. The team of Coach Billant selected 15 players among which there are a few new faces like Bryson Pope (Jenks HS) or Stanley Dubois (Canarias Basketball School). The team will prepare from 24th May to 2 June and the play the tournament of Douai before flying to Australia
  • The German Youth National teams were reunited in Paderborn this weekend and the different National team coaches published their preliminary lists for the summer tournaments.
  • Split won the Croatian U18 championship by beating Cedevita in the Final this weekend.
  • Here are the rosters of the different Serbian Youth National teams for this summer: U16, U18 and U20. The interesting part is the selection of 1993 born Center Bogdan Radosavljevic who got an invitation for both Serbian and German U16 National team. It will be interesting to see for which team he will chose to play.
  • Great Britain prepares also for the U20 European Championship of Division B with the following roster
  • Slovenia selects the following players for the upcoming U18 Championships
  • While the team of the Reebok Eurocamp is still working on the definitive list of participant players, they announced that the FMP Junior team, that recently won the NIJT will be present at the camp and play against the camp All-Stars on Saturday and Monday evening.
  • The French press announced a surprising workout for the automatically eligible Le Havre guard Fabien Causeur at the New York Knicks together with 1986 born Romain Duport
  • Draftexpress chatted with Nando de Colo about his stock for the upcoming NBA Draft
  • Early-Entrance candidate Victor Claver just signed a new three-year deal with Pamesa Valencia. The contract contains a NBA buyout which is “affordable” according to the press release. Additionally, Claver mentioned publicly that he will stay in the Draft this year what ever comes because he wants to be drafted in the 2nd round for salary reasons
  • Clemson 1988 born shooter Terrence Oglesby who holds a Norwegian passport will end his College career and is looking for a professional contract in Europe

7 responses so far ↓

  • 1 albiongate // May 28, 2009 at 11:08 am

    The interesting part is that Radosavljevic left Serbia for Germany 7 months ago, and that he still don’t have german citizenship. It’s seems that serbian centers are highly rated by other national hoop programs. Dusan Gavrilovic (222 1990) will play for turkish U20 NT, Dejan Radojevic (213 1989) will play for slovenian U20 NT and Stefan Nastic (211 1992) may play for Canada U17 NT. Our federation should auction all our centers, it could be a great solution against world economic crisis.

  • 2 albiongate // May 28, 2009 at 1:29 pm

    Serbian Basketball Federation won’t allow players selected in University National Team and in U20 NT to take part to Reebok Eurocamp. Macvan, Marjanovic, Bjelica, Raduljica, Paunic, Keselj are concerned by this decision. Although he wasn’t selected in U20 preliminary list, Milutinovic may also be affected by this move. There are some rumours that he may be added to the U20 NT with Covic, Lazic, Stojacic, Maravic. Only three serbian players may take part to the event (Tepic, Aleksandrov and Labovic).

  • 3 Christophe // May 28, 2009 at 5:00 pm

    @albiongate
    does Radosavljevic parent’s have any link with Germany? Did his father not live there for several years?

  • 4 albiongate // May 28, 2009 at 5:37 pm

    As far as I know his father works in Germany for three years now. It’s a great link between him and Germany. How many foreigners in Germany can pretend obtain german citizenship after less than 6 months in the country ? Maybe I’m old school, but german coaches should better try to form players rather than to “buy” them. Unfortunately, money rules the the world.

  • 5 Roberta // Jun 13, 2009 at 10:37 am

    His father lives in Germany for 10 years. That is the link and Bogdan is here since 2008. Just to answer your questions about this KID.

  • 6 TANJA // Jun 13, 2009 at 12:46 pm

    NO COMMENTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES THAN ENGLISH PLEASE

  • 7 TANJA // Jun 15, 2009 at 10:57 am

    Zasto se moj komentar ne vidi,kad je izvesno vreme,moglo da se procita sta sam napisala ?? HVALA.POZDRAV.

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