Winning Ways Pro International's Pro Basketball Combines are a special environment in which male and female basketball players are tested, measured, scouted and evaluated. The data that is collected is shared with ALL professional basketball teams around the world.

The format of the Pro Basketball Combine is designed to give each participant the maximum opportunity to demonstrate their basketball skills and enable the staff to obtain a thorough "snapshot" of each player's current abilities. The drills, measurements, games and resultant data and film provide players and teams with a standardized format within which to compare individual player results. 

There are a myriad of benefits for players.

1. Increased Exposure - Regardless of a player's talent level and basketball background/experience, it is a team's AWARENESS of that player that will put them on a team's short list of potential signees. Attendance at an Winning Ways Pro International Pro Basketball Combine is the best way to ensure that a player's COMPLETE and professional basketball resume is in front of the key decision makers for the entire professional basketball community. Winning Ways Pro International has assisted players from NCAA Division I, II, III, NAIA, NCCAA and Junior College programs in reaching professional status.

2. Professional Evaluation - Winning Ways Pro International's President and Director of Player Evaluations is Barry Mestel, a professional NBA and CBA scout. He is also a WNBA consultant.  Barry's written evaluations on each combine participant are based upon his years of professional basketball talent scouting and evaluation. Barry is assisted at each combine by an experienced professional staff of coaches and evaluators.

3. Credibility - Winning Ways Pro International and its staff have years of credible experience in professional basketball. Basketball coaches and scouts from around the world have come to rely on the accuracy they can expect from Winning Ways Pro International and that credibility is the foundation of the reports we generate on each Combine participant. When a team reviews a report generated by Winning Ways Pro International, it can be assured that the data and evaluations are of the highest professional quality and accuracy. Since Winning Ways Pro International does not directly represent any basketball players, we are in a position to be unbiased in our reports, an element key to teams and scouts receiving our data. 

4. 12-Month Exposure - Pro Basketball Combine participants have their combine and career data housed on the Winning Ways Pro International web site, allowing professional teams around the world, the ability to search online, 24 hours a day, for players to fill their roster openings. We are also available to talk with teams and agents on the behalf of players, and do so on a regular basis.

5. Worldwide Data Sharing - Unlike team, league or agent-sponsored free agent camps, Winning Ways Pro International's Pro Basketball Combines make player data from our events available to every professional basketball team in the world.

6. Past Success - While our Pro Basketball Combines are fairly new, Winning Ways Pro International has been helping players of all talent levels secure professional playing offers from teams around the world. Our marketing efforts have aided players with and without agents secure offers from teams in the NBA, NBDL, CBA, USBL, IBA, UBA, ABA, EBA, Harlem Globetrotters, Harlem Ambassadors, Australia, Austria, Ireland, Iceland, Macedonia, Uruguay, United Kingdom, Malta, Holland, Denmark, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Spain, Portugal, Luxembourg, Lebanon, Israel, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, France, Korea, China, Japan, Philippines, Mexico and others.

The primary objective behind the development of the Winning Ways Pro International Pro Basketball Combines was to provide players with the "complete package" for obtaining a pro basketball playing contract. Our events are designed to give the players the critical tools they and/or their agent need to thoroughly market themselves for playing opportunities, including video, scouting report, player profile and educational knowledge of the industry itself. In addition to the comprehensive player resume/evaluation and availability of game video, Winning Ways Pro International uploads the player profiles to the Winning Ways Pro International web site, and monitors the international and domestic transaction wires and submits player profiles for consideration, where appropriate.

The application process is started by completing an official application and submitting it to Winning Ways Pro International with the registration fee; either online or via fax or mail. Additional materials (video, clippings, etc.) may be submitted as support, but they are not required, nor will they be returned, so do not send originals. 

No. Each Pro Basketball Combine has a limited number of openings to ensure that each player receives the maximum exposure. Certain criteria are used to determine a player's pro potential, including age, size, experience and basketball playing background.

The combines and camps are filled on a first-come, first-served basis. We encourage players to register early, to ensure their acceptance.

Each Winning Ways Pro International Pro Basketball Combine has a maximum number of player openings to ensure that each player will get maximum playing time in games and drills. 

Yes.  Winning Ways Pro International's President/CEO, Barry Mestel, is an NBA and CBA scout. He is also a WNBA consultant. He is responsible for the final written evaluation of every Pro Basketball Combine participant, based upon live and video observation. In the past, we have had scouts, coaches and agents representing both domestic leagues and teams, for men and women.

Every professional team in the world has access to our online database of profiles. International and domestic agents, scouts and coaches visit our site daily to review player profiles. 

Yes. Each player can access their complete player profile and scouting report through Winning Ways Pro International's web site.

Teams with an interest in a specific player will often contact our office for additional information and references. Our staff is available year-round to answer requests for additional data, references or video. As soon as a team contacts us, we notify the specific player to alert them of the interest, and pass along pertinent information to them or their agent. Since your contact information is included in your player profile on our web site, teams, scouts and agents will be able to contact you and/or your agent directly. 

Yes. Players are permitted to bring family members, spouses and agents. However, keep in mind that this event is similar to a job interview and you need to be focused on basketball throughout the weekend.  We suggest bringing a minimal number of guests, to keep the atmosphere as professional as possible. Guest passes are available for $3 each.  Space in the facilities for spectators is limited.

Winning Ways Pro International has selected local hotels with group rates for participants. Players, guests, agents, scouts and coaches are all eligible for these discounted rates. You must contact the hotels individually to make reservations. Be sure to ask for the discounted Winning Ways Pro International Rate. Players and officials are responsible for all of their own transportation, housing and meals.

Winning Ways Pro International utilizes numerous facilities around the globe for the combines, training sessions and camps.  For directions and addresses to these facilities, visit each camps’ information page.

Each combine will start at 9am on Saturday.  Check in that day begins at 8:30am.  Saturday’s session will end no later than 5pm.  Sunday’s session will begin at 9am as well, but the day will end no later than 4pm.
Make your travel arrangements accordingly, so that you do not miss any of the combine.

No. Over half of the players attending our Pro Basketball Combines do not have representation. In many instances, the fresh information and video obtained at the Combine will give players the tools they need to give to potential agents.

The only leagues that certify agents are the NBA (men) and WNBA (women), but if you are not playing in the NBA or WNBA, you do not necessarily need a certified agent. In other words, there are non-certified agents who are more than qualified to represent non-NBA or non-WNBA players. In fact, many non-NBA and non-WNBA certified agents specialize in placing players overseas exclusively, and if that is where your talents are leading you, that may be the type of representation you need. While we do not directly represent players, Winning Ways Pro International can assist many players in finding representation that is best suited to their talent level and career goals.  

Most minor league teams hold open free agent tryout camps. These events typically charge a fee where an unlimited number of players audition for one or few roster spots. There are no evaluations produced, no video taken, and players not asked to veterans' camp have nothing to show for their monetary or time investment. Between registration fees and travel expenses, it would cost a player thousands of dollars to attend EVERY minor league basketball team's free agent camp in a year. For one low registration fee, the Winning Ways Pro International Pro Basketball Combine will have your data made available to every professional team in the USA and available for worldwide access, through our web site.

On the Saturday evening of each combine, Winning Ways Pro International will hold an informational seminar on pursuing a pro basketball career. Presentations will be made on obtaining the necessary documentation, passports, dealing with agents and professional teams and scouts. Participants will receive comprehensive handouts on preparing for their professional basketball career and valuable information on self-marketing, resources and the professional basketball industry in general.

No other event of this kind provides players with the educational foundation necessary in order to make the leap from amateur to professional basketball player.