With succssful forays into China, the next step in NBA globalization now has set their sights on India as they continue their campaigns for international expansion. (Discuss Indian and Asian basketball in our forum) India, the next largest country in terms of population, is being targeted not only because of their sheer size, but according [...]

China won the gold medal in Men’s Basketball at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China on November 26, beating Korea 77-71 in the final. (Discuss the 16th Asia Games in our Asian Basketball Forum) The Men’s Final was a successful ending of the basketball events at the Asian Games. All basketball games were sold [...]

The Golden State Warriors have signed local-star and NBA Summer League phenom Jeremy Lin to a multi-year deal. The undrafted Asian-American player has been a lightning rod for the Dallas Mavericks during the NBA summer league, quickly winning over fans with his fearlessness, on-court IQ, flashy moves, and deceptive quickness. (Discuss Jeremy Lin and the [...]

Below is a list of the 2009 Asian Basketball League champions listed out by country. Obviously this is not yet a comprehensive list, so if you can help to make it such, please feel free to email Interbasket to fill in the holes. Afghanistan: VA Dream Bahrain: Al Ahli China: Guangdong Southern Tigers India: Indian [...]

The name sounds synonymous with Indian basketball, Divya Singh is the point guard and the team captain of the women’s National Team for India. At her previous Asian Championship, Singh averaged a team high 15.2 ppg. Interbasket’s Yudhistir had the pleasure to sit down and talk to her about her basketball career, game, India basketball, coaching with [...]

Tianjin, China – The 2009 Asiabasket All-Tournament team was named yesterday amidst a little controversy over one of the selections. (edit: this was an unofficial selection from sports.cn – we apologize for the inconvenience) The team was led by Asia Championships MVP Hamed Haddadi of Iran, followed by Chinese veteran Wang Zhizhi, do-it-all Iranian swingman Samad [...]

Iran successfully defended their Asia Champions crown last night, dropping favored-China in a laughable 70-52 win. Led by Memphis Grizzly center Hamed Haddadi‘s 19 points and 17 rebounds, Iran dominated the Chinese in the first two quarters; outscoring their opponents by 11 in the first quarter and by six in the second. The Iranians took [...]