Lebanese superstar and living legend Fadi El-Khatib has signed with Champville of the Lebanese Basketball League, leaving his club Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut. (discuss the move in our forums) Riyadi gave Khatib his official release today, and the 6-6 forward’s move will change the landscape of the FLB. The 30-year has played for several clubs [...]

With the recent successes of Iran, Jordan, and Lebanon, should FIBA create Middle East region? That’s currently what is being proposed in our forum (discuss). The proposal is to move four current European basketball nations, Israel, Turkey, Azerbijan, and Armenia, out from FIBA Europe and combine them with the three current Asian subregions – West [...]

Jakarta, Indonesia – After defeating Al-Riyadhi of Lebanon, Iranian club Mahram will face Zain, a club from Jordan, in the Finals for the 2009 FIBA Asia Champions Cup. (Discuss the 2009 Asian Cup tournament) If Mahram is successful, Iran will have won three consecutive Asia Cup Championships;  Iran’s Saba Battery had won the two previous [...]

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. [...]

Two-time West Asian champions, three-time Asia’s runner-up, and after participating in the last two Fiba World Championship (2002 and 2006), something is amiss with Lebanon… and to me, that is the Olympic Games! Despite being the favourites in last year’s FIBA Asia Championship that was held in Japan, Lebanon lost a dramatic 74 – 69 [...]

Bassel Bawji (Baze-Sull Bah-Gee) is a basketball prospect playing in the United States.  Bassel was born in Beirut, Lebanon and has represented Lebanon on their under-18 National Team.  He is a 6-7, 225lb power forward that plays a physical game at a level rarely seen in the high school ranks.  Even with his fearlessness in [...]

We’ve had a lot of positive traction on our forum from some under-represented regions as we’ve recently received some great members from Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, and Syria. Great Egytian and Iranian Basketball Threads First off, I wanted to recognize a couple great informational forum threads regarding domestic basketball leagues in Iran and Egypt. mohsena2631 and [...]