NBA Draft Profile: Luka Doncic
Vital Stats: Position: Point Guard/Shooting Guard/Small Forward Height: 2.03m Date of birth: 28/Feb/1999 Country: Slovenia Current club: Real Madrid Strengths Where do you start? If you looked at the career highlights and awards section of Wikipedia you would be forgiven for thinking that Doncic was a seasoned veteran who had been dominating Europe for the last few seasons, EuroLeague champ, […]
NCAA Euro-Watch list
With the College Basketball season just around the corner Sam Chadwick has put together the BallinEurope official European watch list. Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk – Kansas – 2016/17 Averages: 27.3 Minutes – 9.8 Points – 3.0 Rebounds – 1.3 Assists – 0.9 Steals – 44% FG – 40% 3PT – 70% FT Probably the top European prospect […]
NBA Schedule – European Viewing Essentials
This NBA 2017/18 schedule is upon us, and after a few days consideration were looking at the games every European basketball fans need to watch. With approx 1300 games to choose from we have picked the most Euro focused games we could possibly think of. Wednesday 18th Oct – Opening night sees the battle of the bigs kick […]
NBA Draft Profile: Anzejs Pasecniks
Vital Stats: Position: Centre / Power Forward Height: 2.18m Date of birth: 20/Dec/1995 Country: Latvia Current club: Gran Canaria Strengths Another 7ft 2″ Power Forward born in 1995 to come out of Latvia after Kristaps Porzingis was taken 4th in 2015. Anzejs won’t go quite so high, but he will be a legitimate lottery prospect in next weeks NBA draft. A mobile […]
Draft Profile: Frank Ntilikina
In the first of his deep dives into European prospects ahead of the upcoming 2017 NBA Draft, Sam Chadwick profiles French point guard Frank Ntilikina Vital Stats: Position: Point Guard Height: 1.96m Date of birth: 28/July/1998 Country: France Current club: Strasbourg Strengths A 6ft 5′ point guard with tremendous wing-span, speed, athleticism and the ability to run the point […]
BallinEurope’s 2016 NBA Mock Draft
Ahead of the 2016 NBA Draft, Sam Chadwick breaks who he sees going where including some interesting landing spots for Europe’s top youngsters For the purposes of this mock draft we go deep on the fit for the lottery rounds. Given how scattered we expect the subsequent breakdown of picks to be, we have essentially […]
Draft Profile: Kristaps Porzingis
With the 2015 NBA Draft just a few weeks away, BallinEurope’s Sam Chadwick is breaking down the Europeans in contention to hear their names called on 25 June. Now on deck it’s a Latvian prospect who has a high ranking but remains a mystery to NBA fans. Sam Chadwick breaks down the mystery that is […]
Draft Profile: Mario Hezonja
With the 2015 NBA Draft just a few weeks away, BallinEurope’s Sam Chadwick is breaking down the Europeans in contention to hear their names called on 25 June. First up it’s Mario Hezonja of Croatia and FC Barcelona. Vital Stats: Position: Shooting Guard/Small Forward Height: 1.98m Date of birth: 25/Feb/1995 Country: Croatia Current club: FC […]