Interbasket

With the Olympics less than a week away, Africa’s resident humanitarian and Houston Rocket Dikembe Mutomobo made a visit to his teammate Yao Ming to speak with him about the his responsibility China’s most recognizable athlete.  Because of the Olympics, a lot of people now ask me about Taipei, human rights, Tibet.” said Yao, referring [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In the last few weeks, Mickael Pietrus has been flying high for the Golden State Warriors, winning eight out of eleven, and Pietrus has started six of those games. In that stretch of 11 games, the 6-7 French guard-forward from Guadeloupe has put up 11.8 points, 6.1 rebounds, 1.7 steals, 1.4 assists, and shooting 39% [...]

Ray Allen hopes NBA expands into Europe - I didn’t know Ray Allen spent a lot of time growing up in England and Germany  “People all over the world are now watching basketball. People in the United States don’t realize that there are cities over here with 4-5 million people. Those market shares would be [...]