professional basketball Archives

Oct03

EuroProBasket Player on Tryout in Spain

Ryusei Kunitake, 6’0″ Japanese shooting guard, left on a tryout in Spain over the weekend. The team that invited him on the tryout attended a game in which Ryusei made six 3-pointers, solidifying the teams interest in him. Ryusei Kunitake ...

Sep28

EuroProBasket Player On Tryout in Valencia, Spain

Wilfried Dossouvi, 6’6″ Power Forward originally from the Ivory Coast is on a tryout this evening with an EBA team in Valencia, Spain. Wilfried grew up playing basketball at the cadet level (U14) in his home country of the Ivory ...

Sep23

EuroProBasket Female Player on Tryout in Ireland

Deema Fatani, 5’2″ Saudi Arabian point guard, arrived in Ireland for a weekend tryout with two Irish teams. Deema attended EuroProBasket’s Woman’s Program in September of 2022 in order to enter the European basketball market. She has experience playing basketball ...

Sep15

EuroProBasket Player on Tryout in Porto, Portugal

Jordan Moses, 6’9″ American Center arrived to his destination in Porto, Portugal. After a successful 5 weeks in the EuroProBasket Euro Professional Program, Jordan Received interest and a tryout offer from a team a short flight from Valencia. Jordan came ...

Sep08

EuroProBasket Player on Tryout in Alicante, Spain

Ryan McAdoo left EuroProBasket to go on a 3-4 day tryout in Alicante, Spain with a team in Liga EBA. He arrived to EuroProBasket just a few days ago following his collegiate career at UNC Ncaa DI. He spent 4 ...

Sep01

EuroProBasket Player on Tryout in Spain

EuroProBasket player Janis Tomaschek arrived to his 5-6 day tryout with a team in Spain. The opportunity involves practicing and playing games with a team in a starter league in Spain while practicing with a team in LEB Oro (Spain’s ...

Aug29

Daniel Cubra on Tryout in Valencia, Spain

EuroProBasket European Summer League player Daniel Cubra, 6’10” Serbian/French Power Forward/Center is on a tryout in Valencia, Spain this week. Daniel Cubra attended the Summer League in June of 2022. He was in search of his next team in Spain ...

Jan04

Importance of a Healthy Player Coach Relationship in Basketball

A healthy relationship between a coach and their player is essential. It could be the key ingredient to become an even better player and also make a better team. It isn’t always as easy as it sounds. Some coaches and ...

Nov11

How to Prevent Basketball Injuries

Like it or not, everyone will get injured once in their career. No matter how well you take care of yourself, it is inevitable due to the intensity during practices and games. Let’s be clear, just because it is inevitable ...

Oct13

EuroProBasket Player Frank Amoah on Tryout in Spain

Frank Amoah came to EuroProBasket with a goal. That goal in his words is “to make my club a better club more than there are already. And to compete at a higher level to challenge myself.” He now has the ...

Oct08

EuroProBasket Player Kingslee D’Silva on Tryout in Spain

Canadian forward Kingslee D’Silva went on a tryout this week following a solid week in the EuroProBasket program. Kingslee played his collegiate career in both the 1st and 2nd Canadian divisions. Kingslee started his collegiate career at The University of ...

Oct06

EuroProBasket Player Christian Russell on Tryout Near Valencia, Spain

Christian Russell, an American Center which grew up in Salem, Oregon, left to go on a tryout with a team just outside of Valencia. Christian has been at EuroProBasket for about 5 weeks preparing himself and adjusting to the European ...

Sep26

EuroProBasket Player Bianca Valderrama on Tryout in Alicante

The first week of the EuroProBasket Women’s program a sports director and coach of a well respected team in Alicante paid a visit to scout players in the program. He instantly noticed and took special interest in one player. The ...

Sep12

Two EuroProBasket Players on Tryout in Peñíscola

Canadian point guard Austin Ly and American shooting guard George Jackson IV left on a tryout in Peñíscola, Spain. They will play in a pre season game with possibly their future team against an opposing team. Austin Ly grew up ...

Sep11

EuroProBasket Player Igor Jesovnik on Tryout in Xativa, Spain

Igor Jesovnik grew up in British Columbia Canada. He played basketball throughout his youth. He joined a collegiate team near his hometown in Vancouver BC but his time there was cut short due to injury. At that point in his ...

Nov16

Overseas Basketball Salaries – Earnings by Country

If you are like most aspiring professional basketball players you surely have been asking yourself, what are the average overseas basketball salaries? We are here to answer that! We dive into the average and maximum salaries of players on every ...

Sep21

Professional Basketball in Portugal – Christian Foxen Shares His Rookie Experience Overseas

When did you start playing basketball? I started playing organized basketball when I was about 8 years old. But we had one of those little toy plastic hoops in my house growing up so I was probably shooting on that ...

May06

THE SMALL FORWARD HACK TO PLAYING PROFESSIONALLY OVERSEAS

The small forward is probably the most versatile player on the roster. On offense, the 3 has to be able to play on the perimeter as well as inside. On defense, he has to contest bigs on some rotations and ...