Interbasket

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]