We haven’t had one in a while so it’s overdue. In our Pic of the Day, Al Horford of the Atlanta Hawks dunks against the Detroit Pistons on March 13, 2010 at Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. Looks like Horford totally caught Ben Gordon by surprise. The NBA is such a fast-paced game, it’s difficult [...]

Tijani Umar, the President of the NBBF (Nigeria Basketball Federation) recently returned from Zurich, Switzerland after a meeting with FIBA World officials to chat about the FIBA wild cards for the 2010 World Championships. However, Umar’s meeting with FIBA officials did not make him very positive on Nigeria’s chances. While speaking with Ungar, FIBA hinted that [...]

Canada has earned the fourth and final berth to the World Championships by downing the Dominican Republic 80-76 in the FIBA Americas quarterfinals. (Discuss the Dominican Republic vs. Canada match) The Canadians used ball movement and three-point shooting to slay the Dominican team, who was without their second leading scorer Francisco García. Canada hit 10 [...]

Francisco García suffered a minor finger injury in the Dominican Republic‘s loss to Puerto Rico on Wednesday. The 6-7 shooting guard sat out the Dominican Republic’s next game, a 86-73 win over Mexico. “Francisco has a cut in one of his fingers. He basically has a nail out of place,” said head coach Julio Toro said. [...]

Three of the four Americas teams have punched their tickets to the 2010 World Championships to be held next year in Turkey. At an undefeated 7-0, Brazil has already earned a spot in the World Championships by dominating their competition, and are now looking for gold with a stacked Argentina and Puerto Rico are the [...]

We should know by now never to underestimate Argentina. Argentina started out the FIBA Americas tournament with two losses, looking completely out of character, losing badly to Brazil and Venezuela. One of the favorites coming into the tournament, the Argentinians started 0-2 and were at risk of being eliminated in the preliminary rounds. With their [...]

I know it’s only a preliminary game, but is anyone as excited about the first day match-up between Brazil and the Dominican Republic as I am? Brazil just came off a dominating performance in the Tuto Marchand Cup. With veterans Leandro Barbosa, Marcelo Machado, and Tiago Splitter leading the way, Brazil comes into the Tournament [...]