Website on basketball
Eurobasket.com |
| Available in | English |
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| Created by | Marek Wojtera |
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| URL | www.eurobasket.com |
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| Commercial | yes |
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| Registration | available, but not required |
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| Launched | March 1997 |
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| Current status | active |
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Eurobasket.com, also commonly referred to as"Eurobasket News", is abasketball-centeredwebsite that provides coverage of everyprofessional andsemi-professional club basketballleague from around the world, as well as manyamateur level leagues. Although it is primarily focused onEurope'sclub basketball leagues, the website also hosts several different regional sections forAfrica,Asia,Latin America and the Caribbean,Northern America, andOceania. 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 andbasketball coach profiles.[1]
Eurobasket.com is the most well-known website about international basketball coverage. Originally, it was established in 1995, as Euroster.com, inCanada, by Marek Wojtera. Wojtera, is aPolish immigrant, former basketball player, and acomputer programmer. Two years later, in 1997, it changed its name to Eurobasket.com. In 2010, it was incorporated into theHong 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 100sports media correspondents that are located around the world. Eurobasket.com is known as the source of the most complete basketball coverage anddata collection about basketball. The site also hosts adatabase 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 apaid subscription.
Eurobasket Summer League
[edit]Eurobasket.com also operates the Eurobasket Summer League, which consists of annual three day basketball tournaments that take place in theUnited States. The summer league takes place in the five host venues ofAtlanta,Chicago,Dallas,Las Vegas, andNew York Metro Area, and also goes to theNCAA Women's Final Four. There are also European tours, where the players can be seen by more Europeanscouts. The aim of the tournaments is to help unsignedfree 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 fromNCAA Division III colleges for example. In order for the players to gain more exposure, the games are broadcast live onYouTube, and have received over 145,000 views since 2018.[2][3]
Eurobasket.com's affiliated sections:
Eurobasket News Euro awards
[edit]The Eurobasket News Euro awards are annual sports awards that are given to the bestbasketball players andcoaches 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 300sports journalists that cover European basketball for the website.
Eurobasket News All-Europeans Player of the Year
[edit]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 theNBA, 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.
| Player (X) Denotes the number of times the player has been selected. |
Eurobasket News All-Europe Player of the Year
[edit]The Eurobasket News All-Europe Player of the Year award is given to the bestbasketball 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.
| Player (X) Denotes the number of times the player has been selected. |
Eurobasket News All-Europe Team
[edit]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.
| 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. |
Eurobasket News All-Europe Coach of the Year
[edit]The Eurobasket News All-Europe Coach of the Year award is given to the best headbasketball 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.
| Player (X) Denotes the number of times the coach has been selected. |
Peja Stojaković
Dirk Nowitzki*
Pau Gasol*
Andrei Kirilenko
Tony Parker*
Kristaps Porziņģis
Goran Dragić
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Nikola Jokić
Arvydas Macijauskas
Shane Larkin
Edy Tavares
Kendrick Nunn
Carlo Recalcati
David Blatt
