The European Basketball Championships, or Eurobasket, is set to begin. Twenty-four European nations will battle over the next 19 days (August 31 – September 18, 2011) in this 37th continental championship. Follow each game of Eurobasket 2011 in our Eurobasket forum. Not only are bragging rights at stake, but the top two teams will receive automatic [...]

Um. Er. Dennis Rodman being defended in the post(erior) during a basketball charity game in Antwerp, Belgium. Dennis Rodman and Belgium’s Yves Dupont goes against each other during a charity basketball match between the Belgian basketball Legends and the NBA Legends on November 13, 2009, in Antwerp.

The final two teams playing for a berth to Eurobasket, France and Belgium, played a two game series to determine who would go to Eurobasket. Belgium took the first game over Les Bleus 70-66. That meant that France had to come out and defeat the Belgians by more than four points in the second, and [...]

Antwerp – Belgium is one game closer to advancing to the Eurobasket 2009 tournament after winning a close game over France 70-66. The two teams are playing a two-game series, home and away, to determine the final selection to the Eurobasket tournament starting September 07, 2009. The tightly-contested game was opened up when Belgium’s long range [...]

Fifteen of the sixteen Eurobasket teams have been determined, and they await the winner of France and Belgium, who will compete in a two game series for the final berth to Eurobasket. The two teams will play a home-and-away two-game series for the right to move on to Poland, where Eurobasket is being held this [...]

How we relate to basketball is generally decided by where we grew up and what we are exposed to. In the United States, the obvious influences are the N.B.A. and college basketball.  And in Europe, the Euroleague competition is the highest form of basketball on that continent. But what if you were a basketball fanatic [...]

When we made our “Top Ten International Players to Watch during March Madness” list out, we made a huge mistake by not including USC’s Daniel Hackett in our initial list.  Going into this weekend’s final four, we’ve watched the games and done the  research, in order to followup on our list and re-ranking the players [...]