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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 700,000 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 (

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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 Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

– Afrobasket.com *

Asia Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa. Asia covers an are ...

– Asia-basket.com *

Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a Continent#Subcontinents, subcontinent of Eurasia ...

– Eurobasket.com *

Latin America Latin America or * french: Amérique Latine, link=no * ht, Amerik Latin, link=no * pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived ...

– Latinbasket.com *

Northern America Northern America is the northernmost subregion of North America. The boundaries may be drawn slightly differently. In one definition, it lies directly north of Middle America (including the Caribbean and Central America).Gonzalez, Joseph. 20 ...

– USbasket.com *

Oceania Oceania (, , ) is a geographical region that includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Spanning the Eastern and Western hemispheres, Oceania is estimated to have a land area of and a population of around 44.5 million ...

– Australiabasket.com * Basketball agents – HoopsAgents.com * ESL – EurobasketSummerLeague.com

References

External links

*{{official website, http://www.eurobasket.com/ Basketball websites Internet properties established in 1997