Interbasket

It’s hard to keep up with basketball news when your niche is to cover the world.  I know we could do more in covering the world’s basketball news, but sometimes time doesn’t permit.  In response to that, we have started the Global Run-On Sentence which will serve to give quick hits and shotd of global [...]

With Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan, Bruce Bowen and Marcus Camby being named to the NBA’s All-defensive first-team today, and no international players named to the second team, it got me wondering.
What does an all-defensive team look like it, if it was solely comprised of all foreign-born NBA players?
Keeping in mind that we’re not [...]

Jason Kidd is apparently headed back to Dallas, where he started his career almost 14 years ago. The star power and talent continues to shift to the Western Conference. With Pau Gasol being sent to the Lakers in exchange for a bag of peanut butter cookies, and Shaquille O’Neal traded to the Phoenix [...]

Kobe Bryant surpassed the 20,000 point mark the other night making him the youngest player to meet that milestone at 29 years, 122 days.
His mark beat Wilt Chamberlain by almost two weeks (Chamberlain was 29 years, 134 days old). Michael Jordan, the only other player to reach the mark before turning 30, was 29 [...]

The Boston Celtics continue to fill the spots around their new trio of superstars Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen. On Thursday, they added Esteban Batista and Dahntay Jones to their training camp roster that will be touring Italy this month. Both signed non-guaranteed contracts.
Esteban Batista had a fantastic performance in the [...]