Adidas Eurocamp Emerges as College Basketball's
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- Adidas Eurocamp hosted 70 players from more than 25 countries and six continents at La Ghirada Città dello Sport in Treviso, with nearly every NBA team sending scouts to its 19th edition.
- Stefan Joksimovic, a 17-year-old Slovenian guard playing for Baskonia in Spain, won MVP and is drawing interest from U.S. college programs as a potential lottery pick in the 2027 NBA Draft.
- Duke-bound Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje, a 7-foot southpaw who won't turn 19 until 2028, was the top college-committed player at camp and could play two seasons for coach Jon Scheyer before the draft.
- Javon Bardwell (5-star Kansas commit, No. 13 in the Class of 2027) and Josiah Rose (No. 44 in 2028, Rising Star Award winner) led the Adidas 3SSB squad of American high schoolers sent to compete in Treviso.
- Adidas Basketball GM Max Staiger said he is open to working with the NCAA to let college coaches scout the camp, though overseas agents and club teams are wary of player poaching.
- Founder Maurizio Gherardini launched the event in 1999 as a single gathering place for players, coaches, agents, media and scouts to measure themselves against top international peers.
Why it matters: With international prospects like Joksimovic and Boumtje Boumtje now targeting NCAA rosters, and Adidas seeding elite American high schoolers into the Treviso field, Eurocamp is shifting from a one-way NBA pipeline into a bidirectional funnel between global youth basketball and U.S. college programs. Staiger's openness to NCAA coaches, contingent on evolving eligibility rules, could formalize that crossover and give schools earlier access to prospects who used to bypass college entirely.
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