13 NBA players to watch during 2025 Eurobasket

We are still a month even from the days of the NBA media before the training field, not to mention the real basketball. That’s why if you are looking for significant games at the end of summer, it’s time to take the gaze to Europe.

Eurobasket, the European championship, will begin on Wednesday 27 August and will last until 14 September. He will present France (the silver medal team of the Paris Olympics), Serbia (the winners of the bronze medal) and Germany, who won the last European competition and finished the fourth in Paris.

Eurobasket will also present many of the largest NBA stars: MVP and players who model and change the way the game is played.

Here are 13 NBA players to look at as game suggestions this week (the group game will be contested in Cyprus, Finland, Latvia and Poland, with Riga, Latvia, which houses the direct elimination rounds).

Nikola Jokic (Serbia)

The three times MVP and the best consent player in the world leads a stacked Serbian team that is the favorite of bets to win the tournament. Jokic is coming out of a Nugget season in which he has made an average of a triple double-29.6 points, 12.7 rebounds and 10.2 assists a-play game being hyper efficient, even shooting 41.7% from 3. It is at the top of his game.

Serbia as a team seems ready, 7-0 have gone to developed games including a blow of 106-72 of a dangerous Slovenian team. This is a deep team with talent and boys who know how to play the international game, allowing Jokic to play his strengths – try to dominate the games with his game rather than score.

Luka Doncic (Slovenia)

Doncic will be the player with the greatest number of eyes on him who heads for Eurobasket because people want the answer to this question: “How good is” thin “Doncic?” In harmony games for the tournament, he looked at Elite, with one of his teammates who told the European media that this is the most athletic they saw Doncic in an international tournament.

A fright shot in the nation of the Lakers after a teammate fell into Doncic’s knee during one of the exhibition games that led to Eurobasket.

Fortunately, he was simply diagnosed with a knee bruise and returned to practice and play with the Slovenian team in the following days. It is in place for Eurobasket and will be in the mix for the MVP tournament if Slovenia has a strong performance.

Giannis Antetokounmpo (Greece)

Antetokounmpo thrives in international basketball – was the top scorer of the Paris Olympics last summer, with an average of 25.8 points together with 6.3 rebounds, 3.5 assists in four games. It was the top scorer of 2022 Eurobasket, with an average of 29.3 points, 8.8 rebounds and 4.7 assists a game.

Last summer, Antetokounmpo and Greece came out of the group game at the Paris Olympics, but were eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Germany round of Knockout. Their goals for this tournament are higher.

Kristaps Porzingis (Latvia)

Porzingis is a prototypical Slet Stretch Five, a player who can protect the edge in defense, but in attack it can sweep the floor and force the big names of other teams from the paint. When healthy is a force. It was a critical part of the race to the title of Boston in 2024 and even last season he scored on average 19.5 points and 6.8 rebounds to a match that shot 41.2% from beyond the arch for the Celtics, but Health limited it to 42 games.

Porzingis is at the center of a renovation of the Hawks list for this season, they will need him on the field. Which means that the fans of Atlanta look and hope that Porzingis will exit unknown from Eurobasket.

Alperere Sengun (Turkiye)

Last season Sengun was an all-star NBA that scored on average 19.1 points, 10.3 rebounds and 4.9 assists a game. Having said that, it did not seem to attract the attention of occasional fans, something that could change. Sengun is ready for a Breakout season like the fulcrum of an attack by Houston Rockets with Kevin Durant and Amen Thompson. That breakout could start from Eurobasket, especially if Sengun continues to play as he did in tune.

Lauri Markkanen (Finland)

The Utah forward – who likes Salt Lake and is not trying to be exchanged, even if the teams call him and Danny Ainge is listening to – he had a couple of very impressive seasons for jazz before seeing his efficiency descending last season in a reconstruction team. It still has an average of 19 points and 5.9 rebounds per game, but its real percentage of shooting .571 was about the average of the League, and well below its two previous seasons, and this was indicative of all its efficiency statistics. Will we see a healthy and rejuvenated Markkanen at Eurobasket and this will mean that your efficiency bounces?

Franz Wagner (Germany)

The brothers Franz and Mo Wagner – Orlando Magic teammates – will both adapt to Germany in this tournament, but Franz is the one ready for a breakout. He marked on average 24.2 points, 5.7 rebounds and 4.7 assists a game last season for Magic, but he lost his all-star Game and Poston prizes due to an oblique injury that questioned him for a piece of the season. In this season, as one of the offensive engines for a magic team ready to break into the first four in the East and make a lot of noise (I am an excellent candidate for an Indian-style post-installation race), Franz will have a lot of brilliance. This could start from Eurobasket with a German team that is the favorite of betting n. 2 to win the entire tournament.

Dennis Schroder, Germany

While the Wagner brothers can get the titles, the solid guard game of Dennis Schroder on both ends of the court is what makes Germany so dangerous. It will take them to the right positions to play games (and it could find it easier to do it with this German team than with the Kings sacrament strangely built next season). Last season in the NBA, Schroder bounced between Brooklyn, Golden State and Detroit, and while he began for the goals that had an average of 18.4 points and 6.6 assists a game (with the warriors who was playing behind Stephen Curry, and with the pistons he was behind Cade Cunningham, so the roles were very different than with the nets – his role with the Germany).

Deni Avdija (Israel)

Not many fans noticed that the Leap Deni Avdija made last season because not many fans outside the north -west of the Pacific were looking at the Portland Trail blazers. Having said that, he thrived in a wider role after being exchanged by Washington and published the career maximums in points at 16.9, rebounds (7.3) and assist (3.9). He had an impressive percentage of real shooting of 60.5. Avdija has had some great games in the international youth tournaments, we will see if he manages to take a step forward on this wider stage for Israel.

Guerschon Yabusele, France

France is a little thin on the front line for this tournament, with Victor Wembanyama and Rudy Gobert both for a team that won the silver medal at the Paris Olympics a year ago.

This puts a lot on Yabusele, which broke out at the Paris Olympics – 14 points and 3.3 rebounds of a game – which brought him back to the NBA with a contract in Philadelphia (this next season, will play a bench role for New York). If you are asking how much Yabusele can lift the French team, remember what Lebron James did in Paris.

Nikola Vucevic, Montenegro

The veteran center NBA is the type of five floors that thrive in international basketball, has shot 40.2% from over the deepest line of 3 points NBA last season. He marked an average of 18.5 points and 10.1 rebounds for Chicago last season and is about to put the numbers for Montenegro as a best and reference player.

Saints Alfama, Spain

There is a pressure from the Spanish side, which is the samples of Eurobasket in office and has won four of the last six of these tournaments, but now it is in a generational transition and may not have the talent to compete at the highest levels. Much of that pressure falls on Aldama, one of the best players of the generation arriving (with the brothers Willy and Juancho Hernangomez like the other big names). The extension of the Grizzlies scored on average 12.5 points and 6.4 rebounds of a match in the NBA last season.

Bogdan Bogdanovic, Serbia

It is the Wing Bogdanovic veteran, not Jokic, who is the Serbian captain, who speaks at the level of respect for the chosen shooter. At the Paris Olympics last summer, Bogdanovic scored on average 17.7 points, 3.7 rebounds and 4 assists per game, helping to conduct Serbia to the bronze medal (and almost upsetting the United States in the medal round). It gives the tone for a Serbian team that thinks gold this summer.