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The United States Men’s basketball team, dubbed the Redeem Team, captured the Olympic gold medal for basketball yesterday, defeating Spain 118-107 in a tightly-contested and high-scoring game (replay).
The 2008 US National Team has shunned any comparisons to the iconic Dream Team, and ironically, they’re probably the closest thing to the 1992 team in terms of [...]

The Olympic basketball’s final four has been determined, and there are no surprises as Argentina, Lithuania, Spain, and the USA, the top four seeds going into the round have advanced.
The four teams have a combined record of 21-3 with the United States the only undefeated team left in the field.  Argentina, Lithuania and Spain are [...]

It doesn’t look good for Madrid in 2016.
Madrid is one of the finalists to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, along with finalists Tokyo, Chicago, and Rio de Janeiro.  However Madrid, and Spain, are receiving worldwide backlash for a controversial advertisement in which both the Men and Women’s Olympic Basketball Teams posed for a team photo [...]

The Spanish National Team posed for a controversial pre-Olympic games advertisement in which the 15-member team each used a gesture popular for making fun of Asian people.  From Pau Gasol to Ricky Rubio, each member of the team used their index fingers to pull up the corners of their eyes, mimicking the eyes of an [...]

Day one of Olympic Basketball has finished with Russia, Germany, Spain, Lithuania, Croatia, and the USA getting their first wins.
Russia 71 : Iran 49 (Russia-Iran Boxscore)
Despite the 71-49 score, Russia didn’t have quite as easy a win as expected, though a late run in the game made for the final margin against feisty Iran.  Russia [...]

It’s been a while since we did a rundown of the happenings in international basketball, so, here goes our periodic international Run-On Sentence:
Roko-Leni Ukic joins the Toronto Raptors
Croatian star guard Roko Leni-Ukic has been busy this last week, not only is he trying to help his national team qualify for the Olympics, but he’s signed [...]

This is part one of five-part series in which Interbasket will evaluate and focus on an international NBA player’s regular, playoff, and off-season.  This week’s focus is fiery Jose Calderon, whose career season has created a point guard quandary in Toronto.

With Toronto’s season ending in a 4-1 series to the Orlando Magic and restricted free-agency [...]

Welcome to Interbasket’s first SLAM Report. Every month, your lovely editor receives an issue in the mail and his intention is to always report on articles or mini-articles that feature international players. Your lovely editor has actually been meaning to do this for three years, that’s actually how lazy your lovely editor is.
This month’s [...]