With the Los Angeles Lakers and Orlando Magic moving past the Denver Nuggets and Cleveland Cavaliers respectively in the NBA’s conference finals,  there are huge implications for both Cleveland and Denver next season as well Brazil’s outlook for international competition this summer.
Two Brazilian big men, Nene and Anderson Varejao, played significant roles for the frontcourts of the two [...]

Everyone loves lists. and we’ve been meaning to come up with a list of the top international NBA players for a few years now, but never actually got around to it.
With the season coming to the end, we decided to finally create our list of the best foreign-born players for the 2008-09 NBA season.  We [...]

It’s no secret that basketball players are more athletic nowadays, they are quicker, stronger, faster, and can jump higher than their counterparts 10 years ago.
However, despite all these changes in the game, there has been one facet of the game has remained relatively the same the last 50 years… The Free Throw Percentage.
The New York [...]

Today, the FIBA World Qualifying Tournament begins with 12 national teams from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania trying to grab one of the three remaining spots for the 2008 Beijing Olympics next month.
Follow the intense action of every game, the heated battles, and all the upsets in our 2008 Olympic Qualifier Forum.
So, with [...]

With only four NBA teams remaining and the conference finals coming to a close, many of the NBA players from around the world are prepping for the Beijing Olympics this summer.
Players such as Yao Ming, Andrei Kirilenko, Jose Calderon, Linas Kleiza, Luis Scola and Andrew Bogut will be suiting up for their respective countries in [...]

Leandro Barbosa, known as the Brazilian Blur, spoke to a Brazilian Sports newspaper Lance and LB accessed the late-season, blockbuster acquisition of Shaquille O’Neal to the Suns.
Apparently, in the shocking statement, Barbosa thinks the trade hurt the Suns in the short-term.
“With the arrival of Shaq, we lost our speed – our main characteristic,” Barbosa said. [...]

With the NBA playoffs about to begin this weekend, Ibn would be remiss not to talk about the unprecedented competitive Western Conference this year and the roles that international players are having on every playoff-bound team. It’s just crazy to think that Dallas is the seventh seed, San Antonio or Phoenix will be sitting out [...]