With succssful forays into China, the next step in NBA globalization now has set their sights on India as they continue their campaigns for international expansion. (Discuss Indian and Asian basketball in our forum) India, the next largest country in terms of population, is being targeted not only because of their sheer size, but according [...]

Talkbasket recently had a great feature with images of 10 basketball courts from around the world; from colorful courts in Berlin, abandoned courts in Chernobyl and Russia, to snow-covered courts in the Himalayas. Other courts featured include backboards (and sometimes even rims) from Germany, Singapore, Belize, Ukraine, El Salvador, Cambodia, and Mexico. Here’s a sampling of the [...]

The name sounds synonymous with Indian basketball, Divya Singh is the point guard and the team captain of the women’s National Team for India. At her previous Asian Championship, Singh averaged a team high 15.2 ppg. Interbasket’s Yudhistir had the pleasure to sit down and talk to her about her basketball career, game, India basketball, coaching with [...]

If  basketball popularity coincided with the average height of the country’s population, then Scandinavia should have many more professional basketball players. At least according to some data that was compiled by one of our forum members, tpraseri (see Average Height by Country thread). Tpraseri compiled data from across the internet, listed out the average heights [...]

Jakarta, Indonesia – After defeating Al-Riyadhi of Lebanon, Iranian club Mahram will face Zain, a club from Jordan, in the Finals for the 2009 FIBA Asia Champions Cup. (Discuss the 2009 Asian Cup tournament) If Mahram is successful, Iran will have won three consecutive Asia Cup Championships;  Iran’s Saba Battery had won the two previous [...]