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Since summer is so quiet time in basketball, here is hint what you can watch during summer. There has been played FIBA U18 and U20 European basketball championship games and you can find all games from Youtube by using fibau18europe and fibau20europe in search. There are several NBA prospects playing for those European teams.

I found at least following players from team rosters that have been ranked to top60 in 2016 NBA draft by Draftexpress:

12th Furkan Korkmaz Turkey SG 18.0 years old 6'7"
22nd Domantas Sabonis Lithuania PF 19.3 years old 6'10" 231 lbs
33rd Petr Cornelie France PF 20.0 years old 6'11" 220 lbs
34th Timothe Luwawu France SG/SF 20.2 years old 6'7" 205 lbs
35th Alpha Kaba France PF/C 19.4 years old 6'10" 226 lbs
43rd Axel Bouteille France SF 20.2 years old 6'6" 195 lbs
48th Guerschon Yabusele France PF 19.6 years old 6'8" 240 lbs
58th Nedim Buza Bosnia and Herzegovina SF 20.2 years old 6'8" 199 lbs
59th Ilimane Dion Spain C 20.3 years old 6'11" 225 lbs

Even with all those prospects playing, none of them were actually selected to all star five.

Nice list mikeman. Speaking of euro players, is Darko still selling personal training videos?

With all those prospects, you would think that France should have dominated U20 games but that wasn't the case. They didn't even get a medal. I guess good athletic ability and individual skills won't help if team play is not in same level than with some other teams.

Lloyd, last time I heard something about Darko he had given up his kick boxing career. It was even shorter than his basketball career.

Oh that's right, he became a kickboxer, lol.