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Today, the FIBA World Qualifying Tournament begins with 12 national teams from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania trying to grab one of the three remaining spots for the 2008 Beijing Olympics next month.
Follow the intense action of every game, the heated battles, and all the upsets in our 2008 Olympic Qualifier Forum.
So, with [...]

With Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan, Bruce Bowen and Marcus Camby being named to the NBA’s All-defensive first-team today, and no international players named to the second team, it got me wondering.
What does an all-defensive team look like it, if it was solely comprised of all foreign-born NBA players?
Keeping in mind that we’re not [...]

With the NBA playoffs about to begin this weekend, Ibn would be remiss not to talk about the unprecedented competitive Western Conference this year and the roles that international players are having on every playoff-bound team. It’s just crazy to think that Dallas is the seventh seed, San Antonio or Phoenix will be sitting out [...]

Every Wednesday during the NBA season, Interbasket takes a closer look at ten international NBA players that has caught our eye. (This week is for period 01/23/2008- 01/29/2008)
Cleveland Hurting
The Cleveland Cavs are playing great since the first of the year, but have hit a touch stretch with injuries to Sasha Pavlovic and Anderson Varejao. [...]

This week we look at the Anderson Varejao’s return to Cleveland, Manu’s amazing week, Tony Parker without Tim Duncan, international baby-Bulls, Marco Belinelli says no to the NBDL, Jose Calderon’s consistency, and the Seattle Sonics’ Mickael Gelabale, Johan Petro and Mohamed Sene. Every Wednesday during the NBA season, interbasket takes a closer look [...]

This week we look at the Utah Jazz’s international players, Andris Biedrins, Tony Parker without Tim Duncan, Anderson Varejao’s holdout, Andrew Bogut’s career thus far, discuss Hedo or Memo, and introduce Kyrylo Fesenko. Every Wednesday during the NBA season, interbasket takes a closer look at ten international NBA players that has caught our eye. (This [...]

Every Wednesday during the NBA season, interbasket takes a closer look at ten international NBA players that has caught our eye. This week is for period 11/15-11/21/2007.
After three years of gathering splinters on the bench (and two championship rings), and with Jacque Vaughn getting the backup PG calls, little-used Beno Udrih was finally traded [...]

With the start of the 2007-08 NBA season upon us, I’m sure David Stern has taken notice of a small but significant pattern from this off-season. I’m not talking about perennial Kobe Bryant drama or the KG trade, this involves names that aren’t all household names, but the direction of the moves are making [...]