Eurobasket 2025 Concludes and More Players Sign With The Hawks

Dennis Schroder and Germany took down Turkey to capture the 2025 Eurobasket first place (Image via FIBA Basketball)
​By: Lucas Kochevar

Eurobasket 2025 has been a fixture for Hawks fans and this website since multiple Hawks were featured, but since they were eliminated early on in the tournament, it’s been quiet. On Sunday, Eurobasket crowned a winner as Dennis Schroder and Germany took down Alperun Sengun and Turkey to win the 2025 iteration of Eurobasket. 

Germany entered as one of the favorites in the tournament and held up throughout to win the first place game 88-83. Giannis Antetokounmpo and Greece also won the third place game over Finland to secure their spot on the podium. There were a number of upsets that happened after the group stage concluded. Nikola Jokic and Serbia were knocked out early and France couldn’t beat Georgia to get out of the first round. Kristaps Porzingis and Latvia were eliminated by Lithuania in the first round also. 

Porzingis had mostly ups with some downs mixed in at Eurobasket, but overall a very encouraging sign for Hawks fans was his health. Porzingis averaged 20.2 points per game to go along with 8.7 rebounds over the course of six games. All in all, Porzingis showed his offensive prowess that should translate well to an offense led by Trae Young. Zaccharie Risacher also had his ups and downs as a member of France, but his role, or lack thereof, stumped him in certain games. Regardless, Risacher showed off skills he didn’t have last year and had averages of 9.7 points per game and 4.2 rebounds per game. He also shot 12-for-29 (41.4%) from three. 

Vit Krejci and Czechia didn’t make a lot of noise, but Krejci still earned experience as the initiator for their offense and he averaged 8.2 points per game, 3.4 rebounds and 2.2 assists. Although none of the Hawks were able to make it far in this tournament, it was encouraging to have guys competing and showing different skills that they can bring to the Hawks for the upcoming season. The next time these Hawks will take the basketball court will be for training camp, where a couple other new faces will join them. 

The Hawks made some signings in the last couple days as center Charles Bassey and guard Kobe Johnson will join the Hawks on training camp deals. Bassey joins the team after a season with the Spurs as he appeared in 36 games. He averaged 4.4 points and 4.2 rebounds in about ten minutes per game. Johnson, the younger brother of Hawks power forward Jalen Johnson, is a rookie out of UCLA. He went undrafted, but played for the Hawks summer league team. He averaged 7.9 points per game, 5.9 rebounds and 2.9 assists with the Bruins last season. Both players will presumably fight for the last roster spot against guys like N’Faly Dante, Caleb Houstan, Javan Johnson and Dwight Murray Jr. If these guys don’t make the active roster, there’s a good chance they’ll land on the G-League team in College Park. ​