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 [...]

An already known top candidate for the post, Ainars Bagatskis was confirmed yesterday as the new Latvia national team coach. (Discuss Latvia Basketball in our forum) The successor of Kęstutis Kemzūra (now at the helm of Lithuania) will guide the team in the next two years and the immediate goal is the qualification for Eurobasket [...]

Andris Biedriņš has been slow in his return to the Golden State Warriors, playing more and more minutes since returning from injury ten games ago. (Discuss Andris Biedrins and the NBA in our forum) The 7-0 center from Latvia registered what may have been his breakout game to get his confidence back; last night against [...]

It was just announced that Dirk Nowitzki will not participate in this year’s Eurobasket tournament. The loss of the 7-0 NBA all-star forward severely hampers Germany‘s chances in obtaining a spot in the 2010 World Championships. The owner of Nowitzki’s NBA team, Mark Cuban, would not allow Nowitzki to take part in the championship, said the German [...]

EuroBasket 2007 commenced yesterday, here’s a quick recap of all the games… Slovenia 69: Italy 68 The game of the night had to be Slovenia-Italy, as the two teams changed leads four times in the last 30 seconds. The Italians had made a furious comeback, after being down 13 with just five minutes remaining. Massimo [...]

Eurobasket 2007 is upon us. Sixteen European National teams are vying to be the king of Europe and more importantly, for two spots to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. With Israel winning the final wild card spot on Friday against FYROM, all 16 teams are now set and all will be competing on the first [...]