Eurobasket.com

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Eurobasket.com

Available in	English
Created by	Marek Wojtera
URL	www.eurobasket.com
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.^[1]

History[]

The website began operating in March 1997. In 2010, it was incorporated into Hong Kong based web programming company Sports I.T. Solutions.^[1]

Operations[]

The news content is provided by 268 free-lance contributors known as correspondents who track news on basketball events and players, also post transfer news, game results and end-of-season awards. On occasion, a league can provide the correspondents with news on its activities and results (as with Midwest Professional Basketball Association).^[2]

The site also hosts a database of hundreds of thousands of coaches and players both active or retired around the world, with some of that content being accessible only through subscription, as with sections aimed at professional basketball players, coaches and agents.^[2]

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. ^[3][4]

Related websites[]

Eurobasket.com's affiliated sections:

• Africa – Afrobasket.com
• Asia – Asia-basket.com
• Europe – Eurobasket.com
• Latin America – Latinbasket.com
• Northern America – USbasket.com
• Oceania – Australiabasket.com

References[]

External links[]

• Official website