Interbasket

Continuing yesterday’s post, Interbasket presents the five least valuable international NBA players for the 2008 NBA Playoffs through the first two games:
1. Andrea Bargnani - Everyone was talking about the benching of Rasho Nesterovic in favor or Jamario Moon, but watching Toronto play, I don’t think Rasho’s the reason why the Raptors haven’t been successul. [...]

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 [...]

I was watching an NBA game and the broadcasters put up a shot listing the top ten NBA jerseys sold in Europe.  I was shocked to see some of the names on the list (Iverson, Diaw), and more importantly, the names that weren’t on the list. Check out the list below:
1. Dwyane Wade
2. Allen [...]

This week we pay tribute to Zeljko Rebraca. We also look at the Yao’s anger, dissect Steve Nash’s comments, Diaw’s disappointing season, Nene’s back, the Brezec and Herrmann trade, under-rated Fabricio Oberto, Juan Carlos Navarro finding his stride, and plead Don Nelson to play Andris Biedrins more minutes. Every Wednesday during the [...]

Led by an all-around play from Victor Khryapa (16 points, 7 rebounds, and 6 assists) and JR Holden’s 15 points, Russia defeated France 75-71 yesterday in what turned out to be a free-throw accuracy contest towards the end the game.
With 24 seconds remaining in the game and the game tied at 69 a piece, twelve [...]

Eurobasket 2007 is upon us. Sixteen European National teams are vying to be the king of Europe and more importantly, for two spots to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
With Israel winning the final wild card spot on Friday against FYROM, all 16 teams are now set and all will be competing on the first [...]