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Australia 95: Russia 80 -  in a small upset, Australia rolled over favored-Russia 95-80.
The Boomers used a 10-2 spurt in the final two minutes of the first quarter to take an eleven-point lead after one period, and built it to a 16-point distance at halftime.
The Aussies were bolstered throughout the game by their  three-point shooting, [...]

Day one of Olympic Basketball has finished with Russia, Germany, Spain, Lithuania, Croatia, and the USA getting their first wins.
Russia 71 : Iran 49 (Russia-Iran Boxscore)
Despite the 71-49 score, Russia didn’t have quite as easy a win as expected, though a late run in the game made for the final margin against feisty Iran.  Russia [...]

With less than a week left before Olympic basketball begins, Interbasket is previewing the twelve national teams participating in the tournament.  We will review the six teams in Group A today and Group B later on this week (Click here for Olympic Basketball Group B Preview).
Group A is filled with teams that are more equally-matched.  [...]

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 [...]

Every Wednesday during the NBA season, Interbasket takes a closer look at ten international NBA players that has caught our eyes, our good eye or our stinkeye. (This week is for period 01/02/2008- 01/08/2008)
This week Andrew Bogut and Yi Jianlian are performing in different directions, Tony Parker receives an important award, the pros and cons [...]

The nomination period is now over and the nominees for IBN’s 2007 Awards have been selected - now it’s up to you to decide which player has had the best 2007, as far as performances, awards, medals and records, in the following categories:
* 2007 IBN Player of the Year (<- click to vote)
* [...]

It’s that time of year for the IBN awards to be handed out, but first we need players to be nominated. This year we’ve added a couple categories, and we’re looking for the best players from 2007, and only accomplishments in 2007 (need help remembering? click here). Hurry, post your nominations [...]

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 [...]