With ALBA Berlin choosing to depart the EuroLeague for the FIBA Basketball Champions League - which may very well be a play to position themselves well for the NBA Europe project - they've lost some notable talent.
It seems like a draft-and-stash prospect for the Utah Jazz expects to be spending the next three years overseas. According to a team release, Real Madrid has agreed to a three-year contract with Gabriele Procida, the 36th-overall pick in the 2022 NBA Draft, and a player the Jazz have had the draft-and-stash rights to for over a year.
There are a handful of stashed prospects playing in the 2024-25 EuroLeague season but through almost the first third of the season, two are separating themselves as the best of the bunch: Tarik Biberovic and Gabriele Procida.
Basketball originated as a distinctly American game. It had international roots, though, as the game's inventor, James Naismith, was Canadian. In the years since, the NBA has been flooded with league-defining international talent.