The European Basketball Championships, or Eurobasket, is set to begin. Twenty-four European nations will battle over the next 19 days (August 31 – September 18, 2011) in this 37th continental championship. Follow each game of Eurobasket 2011 in our Eurobasket forum. Not only are bragging rights at stake, but the top two teams will receive automatic [...]

Following months of speculation in media, one of the most promising European players finally found himself a new team. (Discuss Euroleague/Club Competition Signings & Rumours in our Euroleague & Club Competition Forum) Serbian power forward Milan Mačvan will move to Israel and Euroleague giants Maccabi Tel Aviv for the next four seasons. The deal was [...]

Omri Casspi, the first Israeli player to ever play in the NBA has had a successful NBA career thus far, so much so that the 22-year old has had a mural painted in his honor in Sacramento. Discuss Israeli Basketball in our Israeli basketball forum. However, the 6-9 forward’s mural has recently been defaced with [...]

Arik Shivek has been appointed as the new head coach for the Israeli National Team. (Talk Israeli Basketball in our forum) The 53-year-old will fulfil the vacant post left by Zvi Sherf, who left the national team after Israel ended Eurobasket this year without a win. Shivek is aware of the difficult task ahead for [...]

Omri Casspi, the 21-year old rookie from Israel, made his first start of the season last night in the King’s 112-109 win over the Washington Wizards. (Discuss Omri Casspi’s rookie season in the NBA) Casspi played a season-high 37 minutes, scored a career-high 22 points on a career-high 16 field goal attempts. He also shot [...]

Omri Casspi, the first Israeli to play in the NBA has had a great start to his NBA career. The 6-9 swingman is averaging 10.1 points, 3.8 rebounds, and 1.1 assists in 14 minutes off the bench for the Sacramento Kings. (Discuss Omri Casspi and Israeli basketball in our forum) Casspi brings much-needed hustle, energy [...]

In addition to being one of the season’s best games thus far (who knew?), last night’s Sacramento Kings match vs. the Memphis Grizzlies had a lot of different storylines – diplomatic relations, NBA season-high point total, international intrigue, and surprise! Allen Iverson complanis about not wanting to come off the bench! So much for the gesture [...]