Eurobasket.com
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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 provide coverages of every professional and semi-professional leagues around the world. Although primarily focusing on European basketball, the website hosts several different regional sections for North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Eurobasket.com covers basketball in 193 countries and 435 leagues around the world, with over 382,000 player profiles updated daily.
History
Eurobasket is the most known website about international basketball coverage. Originally it was established in 1995 as Euroster.com in Canada by Marek Wojtera (Polish immigrant, former basketball player and a computer programmer) and 2 years later it changed its name to Eurobasket.com. In 2010, it was incorporated into Hong Kong based web programming company Sports I.T. Solutions.
Overview
The news content is provided by its full-time staff and over 100 correspondents located around the world. Eurobasket is known as the source of most complete basketball coverage and data collection about basketball. The site also hosts a database of over 900,000 coaches and players both active or retired around the world, with some of that content being accessible only through subscription.
Summer league
Eurobasket.com also operates the Eurobasket Summer League, which are annual three day tournaments in the United States that visit in five host cities (Las Vegas, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, New York/New Jersey) in addition to the NCAA Women's Final Four. Their aim is to help unsigned free agents find professional clubs overseas and to that end, 767 former Eurobasket Summer League players were active on professional rosters in 67 different countries in 2019/20 season. The events, cater to both men and women, have hosted players from lesser known backgrounds (NCAA Division III colleges for example) to enable them to gain more exposure with games broadcast live on YouTube which has received over 125,000 views since 2018.
Related websites
Eurobasket.com's affiliated sections:
- Africa – Afrobasket.com
- Asia – Asia-basket.com
- Europe – Eurobasket.com
- Latin America and the Caribbean – Latinbasket.com
- Northern America – USbasket.com
- Oceania – Australiabasket.com
- Basketball agents – HoopsAgents.com
- ESL – EurobasketSummerLeague.com
Euro awards
The Euro awards are annual awards that are given to the best basketball players that are playing on the European continent, across all European leagues and competitions, regardless of the player's nationalities; as well as to the best 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.
All-Europeans Player of the Year
The 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 |
| Year | All-Europeans Player of the Year |
|---|---|
| 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×) |
All-Europe Player and Coach of the Year
The All-Europe Player of the Year award and All-Europe Coach of the Year award awarded to the best basketball player and the best basketball coach on 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 |
| Year | All-Europe Player of the Year | All-Europe Coach of the Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Dejan Bodiroga | not awarded |
| 2003 | Arvydas Macijauskas | |
| 2004 | Šarūnas Jasikevičius | Carlo Recalcati |
| 2005 | Šarūnas Jasikevičius (2×) | Panagiotis Giannakis |
| 2006 | Theo Papaloukas | Ettore Messina |
| 2007 | Dimitris Diamantidis | Željko Obradović |
| 2008 | Ramūnas Šiškauskas | Ettore Messina (2×) |
| 2009 | Juan Carlos Navarro | Željko Obradović (2×) |
| 2010 | Juan Carlos Navarro (2×) | Xavi Pascual |
| 2011 | Juan Carlos Navarro (3×) | Željko Obradović (3×) |
| 2012 | Vassilis Spanoulis | Dušan Ivković |
| 2013 | Vassilis Spanoulis (2×) | Georgios Bartzokas |
| 2014 | Sergio Rodríguez | David Blatt |
| 2015 | Sergio Rodríguez (2×) | Pablo Laso |
| 2016 | Nando de Colo | Dimitrios Itoudis |
| 2017 | Bogdan Bogdanović | Igor Kokoškov |
| 2018 | Luka Dončić | Šarūnas Jasikevičius |
| 2019 | / Shane Larkin | Dimitrios Itoudis (2×) |
| 2020 | / Shane Larkin (2×) | Ergin Ataman |
| 2021 | Vasa Micić | Ergin Ataman (2×) |
| 2022 | Vasa Micić (2×) | Ergin Ataman (3×) |
All-Europe Teams
The All-Europe First Team award and All-Europe Second Team award awarded to in the 2 best fives of all Europe 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 All-Europe Player of the Year award. |