206 Hoops Worldwide, Europe Edition: Bobby Jones, Marcelus Kemp, and Rodrick Stewart

Continuing our sporadic tour of 206 hoopsters around world, we land in Europe, home to several ballers with local ties.

Bobby Jones

The 206 star: Former Husky Bobby Jones, who's leading Banca Tercas Teramo of the Italian Serie A in scoring, with 12.6 ppg. One of Jones' teammates is Drake Diener, one of the famed shooting Deiner brothers. Jones' team, sadly, is just 2-5 on the year.

Teramo is a town of about 55,000, about two hours from Rome near the Adriatic Sea. Here's a picture of city hall at night. Nice!

Garfield High and University of Nevada star Marcelus Kemp is playing in Italy's second-division league, in Sassari. Kemp averages 17.3 ppg for the third-place Banco di Sardinia Sassari squad.

Sassari is 120 miles from the Italian mainland on the island of Sardinia. It is Sardinia's second-largest city, with a metro population of 300,000. Learning Italian won't necessarily get Kemp by, as many people in the area speak Sassarese.

Franklin High grad Lyndale Burleson also attended Nevada--in fact, he and Kemp are members of the Wolfpack all-decade team. Now Burleson plays for USC Heidelberg in Germany's second division. Burleson's averaging 18.3 ppg, which puts him third on the high-scoring Heidelbergers.

Burleson's brother Kevin, who went to Garfield for a year and then transferred to O'Dea, played 39 games for Charlotte in the 2005-06 NBA season. After spending most of last season in the NBA D-League, Kevin Burleson is playing in Romania for first-place Asesoft Ploiesti. He's leading the team in assists and is second in scoring.

O'Dea had some rabid fans, I'm sure, but Burleson's never experienced anything like the streamer-tossing, chanting Ploiseti faithful:

Ploiesti, about 40 miles north of Bucharest, has about 230,000 people and is the ninth-largest city in Romania. It was one of the first major oil-producing areas of Europe, and remains an important location for oil refineries. As such, it was attacked several times during WWII.

Rodrick Stewart

Former Rainier Beach star Rodrick Stewart is considerably further north, playing in Forssa, Finland in the top Finnish pro league. Stewart is averaging 14.3 ppg for Forssan Koripojat, which is 4-10 on the season. 

Forssa, a region of less than 20,000 people in southwest Finland, is home to the Pick-Nick car show, the largest in Northern Europe.

Stewart's twin brother Lodrick played in Germany last year, but he's not on any European roster that I could find.