From the bottom to the top. With the four final wild cards handed out yesterday, the World Championships of Basketball continue to take shape from the bottom up. FIBA has now decided the four countries that will lead the four groups: Argentina, Greece, Spain and USA. These four federations will be the number one seeds [...]

After weeks of speculation, FIBA has chosen the four final countries, Germany, Lebanon, Lithuania, and Russia, that will represent in the 2010 World Championships of Basketball. (

We are onlyy one day away from FIBA announcing the final four countries that will fill the tournament field for the 2010 World Championships. (Predict the four teams to WC2010) The Wild Card process started with 14 teams hoping for one of the four remaining spots; now it’s been whittled down to just eight basketball [...]

Interbasket member JGX wrote up this post to explain how the FIBA world rankings really work, as well as pointing out the many shortfalls of the ranking/point system used to determine a country’s placement. How are the FIBA world rankings determined? It’s very simple. Countries receive points for each zonal and world championships they participate in [...]

On Tuesday, eleven basketball legends that greatly contributed to the game of basketaball as players, coaches, referees, or contributors were inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame in Alcobendas (Madrid, Spain). The men and women of the 2009 inductees included US and NBA great Oscar Robertson (USA), national team hero Ricardo González (Argentina), women’s basketball [...]

Canada just laid down a beat down on Mexico in the 2009 FIBA Americas Tournament. Canada won their first match of the tournament, laying an emphatic 95-40 win over Mexico, a victory margin of 55 points. Coming into the game, Canada was favored to win, but no one expected the slaughter we saw today. Five [...]

Kunshan, China - The Stanković Continental Champions’ Cup is an international basketball tournament held annually in China. This year’s continental basketball championship features four teams: last year’s champions Angola, hosts China, Turkey and Australia. The 2009 Stanković Cup is set for August 28-30. I wonder how Turkey is going to participate in both the Efes Pilsen World Cup [...]