Weekly Wrap

Summer is here, and I need you to understand something that the overseas market will not wait to teach you on its own: the window between now and when clubs finalize their rosters is short, and the players who get the calls are the ones who stayed visible. I played ten years across 16 countries, and I can tell you with total confidence that the offers that came to me were almost never the result of an agent making the right call at the right time. They were the result of a coach or a scout having seen me somewhere recent enough that my name came up when a roster spot opened. That is why I am telling you to be in Las Vegas for NBA Summer League from July 9 to 19, to be in TBT when it kicks off July 18 with a $2 million prize on the line, to be at every credible exposure camp we identify in this week's guide, and to get filmed at open runs, including the one we have coming up in the Philadelphia area. Look at what happened with Justin Robinson this year at Paris Basketball. One strong EuroLeague season and he is now one of the more discussed names on the free agent board. That does not happen in a vacuum. It happens because people were watching. Tyler Harris in Denmark is scoring at the top of the world charts in a single playoff round and overseas agents are now doing double takes. The market for American players at the middle tier is tighter than what you are reading on social media right now, and the EuroLeague salary cap compression means Panathinaikos and Fenerbahce are no longer running unlimited bidding wars the way they were two or three seasons ago. The clubs that are spending, like Hapoel Tel Aviv, Maccabi, Partizan, and increasingly Dubai, are signing players they have already seen or already know about. You cannot be known if you are invisible from June through August.

The other thing I want to put in front of you, paperwork matters as much as the opportunity. Look at what Turkey is doing to players right now. The lira dropped 38% against the euro in 2025, and the BSL suspended operations for 45 days earlier that same year and left short-term players sitting there unpaid. When I was negotiating deals in the Middle East and in Kosovo, the financial instability felt like a known quantity you just absorbed, and sometimes you absorbed it right out of your bank account. The difference now is that we can tell you in advance: if you are going to Turkey, your agent needs to have a USD or EUR conversion clause in that contract before you sign, not as a follow-up conversation, not as a handshake understanding, but in the document. The same diligence applies to anyone eyeing Dubai or the Gulf clubs, because if the EuroLeague's reported Middle East regional league takes shape over the next two to three years, the competitive and financial structure of those programs is going to shift in ways nobody has fully mapped yet. Codi Miller-McIntyre just locked in over two million euros per season at Olympiacos after two strong years at Zvezda, and Trey Lyles scored 24 points in a EuroLeague final in his first season in Madrid on a $3.2 million deal. Those outcomes are available. They are just available to players who stayed ready and got their paperwork right.