Recaps

During the weekend of October 27th to 29th, the inaugural three gamedays of the Rising Stars U18 tournament took place in Greece, featuring matchups in multiple venues across Athens and Thessaloniki. A total of 18 thrilling games unfolded during this action-packed weekend, showcasing a crop of promising young prospects who truly shone with their exceptional performances. In this report, we will take a closer look at the standout talents from the first weekend of action.

No surprise in Munich, as Real Madrid took home the trophy, after a completely dominant and convincing display at the tournament. Here is the recap of three days full of basketball in south Germany.

Yesterday was the final day at the 43rd Torneig Junior Ciutat de L’Hospitalet, the U18 International Tournament in L’Hospitalet, a marquee date in scouting calendars in Europe. In the morning games, FC barcelona outlasted Unicaja Málaga in an epic 2006 generation showdown between Barcelona’s Dame Sarr and Dayan Nessah and Unicaja Málaga’s Mario Saint-Supéry, the…

The yearly Torneig de Bàsquet Junior Ciutat de L’Hospitalet features several of the best U18 squads in Spain, including Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Joventut Badalona or Unicaja Málaga. Missing only Valencia (Sergio de Larrea, Lucas Marí and Pablo Navarro, all playing in third division LEB Plata with Valencia’s affiliate team) and Zaragoza (Aday Mara and…

After a dominant tournament throughout, Italy were crowned champions of the Íscar International U16 Tournament, defeating Spain U16 in convincing fashion after a dominant third quarter. The final score was 88-66. The Italians looked fully in control in the second half, able to dictate the tempo of the game and impose their physical advantage over…

Day 3 of the Íscar International U16 Tournament was supposed to feature games between Italy U16 and Portugal U16, which the Italian team won comfortably with a final result of 85-69, and Spain U16 against Greece U16. However, the Greek side, impacted by several cases of non-covid illness and flu symptoms both before and after…

The two first days of action are in the books in the Villa de Íscar International U16 Tournament, and we will give a brief recap of the most impressive performances from days 1 & 2. As mentioned in our tournament preview, the Íscar tournament is a marquee date on scouting calendars – one of the…

This past weekend saw the 12th edition of the U15 Torneo Fundación Leucemia y Linfoma, a marquee yearly tournament featuring several of the better teams in Spain and the first milestone in the U15 Spain basketball scene, with renowned past MVPs like Domantas Sabonis or Usman Garuba. In this edition, CB Canarias (the youth system of BCL and ACB team Lenovo Tenerife) and Valencia Basket joined Real Madrid as ACB clubs, competing alongside two competitive local teams in CB Alcobendas and Real Canoe and the regional Madrid U14 team, featuring a selection of the best players from all Madrid teams from the U14 category.

Last weekend Pesaro hosted “Ibsa Next Gen Cup” where the U19 youth programs of Italian LBA clubs faced up to in two different groups. In these days, just the first phase of the tournament has been held, attending the final stage at the end of February that will be located in Trento. In the group A, Pesaro and Tortona got three wins in as many games, with Treviso and Trieste that answer positively with a 2-1 record. In the group B, Trento ended up the only undefeated team with 4 rivals chasing (Milano, Venezia, Verona and Napoli).