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Available in | English |
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Created by | Marek Wojtera |
URL | www |
Commercial | yes |
Registration | available, but not required |
Launched | March 1997 |
Current status | active |
Eurobasket.com, also commonly referred to as "Eurobasket News", is a basketball-centered website that provides coverage of every professional and semi-professional club basketball league from around the world, as well as many amateur level leagues. Although it is primarily focused on Europe's club basketball leagues, the website also hosts several different regional sections for Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern America, and Oceania. Eurobasket.com, which is updated on a daily basis, covers basketball in 196 different countries and in 435 different leagues around the world, with over 940,000 basketball player and basketball coach profiles. [1]
Eurobasket.com is the most well-known website about international basketball coverage. Originally, it was established in 1995, as Euroster.com, in Canada, by Marek Wojtera. Wojtera, is a Polish immigrant, former basketball player, and a computer programmer. Two years later, in 1997, it changed its name to Eurobasket.com. In 2010, it was incorporated into the Hong Kong based web programming company Sports I.T. Solutions, and the two companies became partners in 2019. [1]
The site's news content is provided by its full-time staff, and over 100 sports media correspondents that are located around the world. Eurobasket.com is known as the source of the most complete basketball coverage and data collection about basketball. The site also hosts a database of over 940,000 basketball coaches and players, both active and retired, from around the world, with some of that content being accessible only through a paid subscription.
Eurobasket.com also operates the Eurobasket Summer League, which consists of annual three day basketball tournaments that take place in the United States. The summer league takes place in the five host venues of Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, and New York Metro Area, and also goes to the NCAA Women's Final Four. There are also European tours, where the players can be seen by more European scouts. The aim of the tournaments is to help unsigned free agents find professional basketball clubs overseas, and to that end, 767 former Eurobasket Summer League players were active on professional rosters, in 67 different countries during the 2019–20 basketball season. The summer league events, which cater to both men's and women's basketball players, have also hosted players from lesser known backgrounds, like players from NCAA Division III colleges for example. In order for the players to gain more exposure, the games are broadcast live on YouTube, and have received over 145,000 views since 2018. [2] [3]
Eurobasket.com's affiliated sections:
The Eurobasket News Euro awards are annual sports awards that are given to the best basketball players and coaches that are playing and coaching on the European continent, across all European leagues and competitions, regardless of their nationalities. Awards are also given to the best basketball players in the world, that have European nationalities, regardless of whether they play in Europe, or anywhere else in the world. The awards are decided on by a vote that takes place among over 300 sports journalists that cover European basketball for the website.
The EuroBasket News All-Europeans Player of the Year award is given to the best basketball player in the world, in a given calendar year, that has European nationality, regardless of whether they play in Europe, or anywhere else in the world. For example, European players that play in the NBA, and other various leagues around the world that are not based in Europe, are eligible for the award. The award is decided on by a vote that takes place among over 300 sports journalists that cover international basketball for the website.
* | Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |
** | Inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame |
*** | Inducted into both the Naismith and FIBA Halls of Fame |
Player (X) Denotes the number of times the player has been selected. |
Year | Eurobasket News All-Europeans Player of the Year |
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2002 | Peja Stojaković |
2003 | Peja Stojaković (2×) |
2004 | Peja Stojaković (3×) |
2005 | Dirk Nowitzki* |
2006 | Dirk Nowitzki* (2×) |
2007 | Dirk Nowitzki* (3×) |
2008 | Dirk Nowitzki* (4×) |
2009 | Pau Gasol* |
2010 | Pau Gasol* (2×) |
2011 | Dirk Nowitzki* (5×) |
2012 | Andrei Kirilenko |
2013 | Tony Parker* |
2014 | Tony Parker* (2×) |
2015 | Pau Gasol* (3×) |
2016 | Kristaps Porziņģis |
2017 | Goran Dragić |
2018 | Giannis Antetokounmpo |
2019 | Luka Dončić |
2020 | Luka Dončić (2×) |
2021 | Nikola Jokić |
2022 | Nikola Jokić (2×) |
2023 | Nikola Jokić (3×) |
The Eurobasket News All-Europe Player of the Year award is given to the best basketball player on the European continent, in a given calendar year, across all European leagues and competitions. The award is given regardless of the player's nationality, as the winner of the award does not have to have European nationality. The award is decided on by a vote that takes place among over 300 sports journalists that cover European basketball for the website.
* | Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |
** | Inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame |
*** | Inducted into both the Naismith and FIBA Halls of Fame |
Player (X) Denotes the number of times the player has been selected. |
Year | Eurobasket News All-Europe Player of the Year |
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2002 | Dejan Bodiroga |
2003 | Arvydas Macijauskas |
2004 | Šarūnas Jasikevičius |
2005 | Šarūnas Jasikevičius (2×) |
2006 | Theo Papaloukas |
2007 | Dimitris Diamantidis |
2008 | Ramūnas Šiškauskas |
2009 | Juan Carlos Navarro |
2010 | Juan Carlos Navarro (2×) |
2011 | Juan Carlos Navarro (3×) |
2012 | Vassilis Spanoulis |
2013 | Vassilis Spanoulis (2×) |
2014 | Sergio Rodríguez |
2015 | Sergio Rodríguez (2×) |
2016 | Nando de Colo |
2017 | Bogdan Bogdanović |
2018 | Luka Dončić |
2019 | Shane Larkin |
2020 | Shane Larkin (2×) |
2021 | Vasilije Micić |
2022 | Vasilije Micić (2×) |
2023 | Edy Tavares |
The Eurobasket News All-Europe First Team and Eurobasket News All-Europe Second Team awards are given to the ten best players of all of the European continent, in a given calendar year, across all European leagues and competitions, regardless of the player's nationality, as the winner of the award does not have to have European nationality. The award is decided on by a vote that takes place among over 300 sports journalists that cover European basketball for the website.
* | Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |
** | Inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame |
*** | Inducted into both the Naismith and FIBA Halls of Fame |
Player (X) Denotes the number of times the player has been selected. |
Bold text indicates the player who won the Eurobasket News All-Europe Player of the Year award. |
The Eurobasket News All-Europe Coach of the Year award is given to the best head basketball coach on the European continent, in a given calendar year, across all European leagues and competitions. The award is given regardless of the coach's nationality, as the winner of the award does not have to have European nationality. The award is decided on by a vote that takes place among over 300 sports journalists that cover European basketball for the website.
* | Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |
** | Inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame |
*** | Inducted into both the Naismith and FIBA Halls of Fame |
Player (X) Denotes the number of times the coach has been selected. |
Year | Eurobasket News All-Europe Coach of the Year |
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2002 | N/A |
2003 | Svetislav Pešić** |
2004 | Carlo Recalcati |
2005 | Panagiotis Giannakis |
2006 | Ettore Messina** |
2007 | Željko Obradović |
2008 | Ettore Messina** (2×) |
2009 | Željko Obradović (2×) |
2010 | Xavi Pascual |
2011 | Željko Obradović (3×) |
2012 | Dušan Ivković** |
2013 | Georgios Bartzokas |
2014 | David Blatt |
2015 | Pablo Laso |
2016 | Dimitris Itoudis |
2017 | Igor Kokoškov |
2018 | Šarūnas Jasikevičius |
2019 | Dimitris Itoudis (2×) |
2020 | Ergin Ataman |
2021 | Ergin Ataman (2×) |
2022 | Ergin Ataman (3×) |
2023 | Chus Mateo |
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