Led by last year’s Euroleague Finals MVP, the playoff-tested Ramunas Siskauskas, CSKA Moscow advanced to the Euroleague’s championship game by narrowly defeating F.C. Barcelona 82-78 (discuss)
Siskauskas scored 18 of his career-high 29 points in the fourth quarter which included consecutive three-pointers that gave CSKA their first lead of the game, 62-61 midway through the final [...]

DraftExpress reports that David Andersen, Australian center and Euroleague Star, is considering coming to the NBA for the 2009-2010 season.
One of the premier big men in the Euroleague, Andersen has an opt-out clause in his contract, and is interested in going to the American league this next season.  The problem?  “The fact that the Atlanta [...]

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, [...]

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 the two Olympic Basketball Groups now set and determined, which group would you rather be in?  Or as a thread in our Olympic Basketball Forum asks, “which is the Group of Death, A or B?”
The twelve participating national teams were randomly drawn into two separate groups..  Each of the two group will have six [...]

The Australian National Team defeated the Tall Blacks today 79-67 in the Oceania Championships, bringing the Boomers one game away from qualifying for the 2008 Olympics. The Aussies used stifling defense to pull out the win.  Leading the Boomers offensive attack was center and Euroleague star David Andersen with 20 points, Sam Mackinnon had 18 [...]