Interbasket

Goran Dragic (GO-ran DRAG-itch), a 22-year old Slovenian point guard, has signed a four-year deal with the Phoenix Suns. The Suns are trying to find a backup and eventual replacement for the 34-year old, two-time NBA MVP, Steve Nash.
“(Goran) has to come and has to compete for a backup spot behind Steve,” Phoenix’s General Manager [...]

Well, that didn’t take long at all.
Just over a week after Hamed Haddadi (ha-MED ha-DAHD-dee) was cleared to talk and negotiate with NBA teams, the 7-2, 254lb center from Iran reportedly has signed a contract with the Memphis Grizzlies.  If Haddadi makes the team, he will become the first Iranian player in the NBA.
It was [...]

Just days after news broke that the NBA had disallowed any teams to talk or deal with Iranian superstar Hamed Ehadadi, as well as other Iranian basketball players, due to the lack of the correct license from the US Government, reports are that the NBA has been approved for the license and the restriction has [...]

The NBA’s only player to hail from the Republic of Geogia, Zaur (Zaza) Pachulia, went on American television news station CNN last night and plead for peace between his home land and Russia.  The conflict between the two countries over South Ossetia, which claimed independence from Georgia in the early 1990s, escalated last week when [...]

Alright, so I don’t do this very often and I don’t know how long this has been around, but this has to be one of the most hilarious animated GIFs I have seen in.. I don’t know how long.  It’s a animated image of Kobe Bryant, Phil Jackson, Pau Gasol, and Sasha Vujacic joyriding in [...]

As we mentioned earlier this week, Hawk’s forward Josh Childress was mulling a 3-year contract with Greece instead of re-signing with the Atlanta Hawks  Well, today it became official, Josh Childress, one of the NBA’s best sixth men last season, has signed with Greek club Olympiakos.  Childress, along with his mom and brother, reportedly brought [...]

Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports has reported that Josh Childress, a promising young player with the Atlanta Hawks, has a couple offers on the table; one from the Hawks and one from Olympiakos from the Greek league.
And here’s the shocker, the 25-year old Childress is seriously, seriously considering bolting to Europe, so serious that he [...]

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 [...]