The FIBA Wild Cards will determine four teams’ fates for the 2010 World Championships of basketball. With a few days remaining before FIBA announces their selections, which countries do you think FIBA will select for the event in Turkey in 2010? Below are Interbasket’s top 11 contenders: Cameroon Dominican Republic Germany Great Britain Korea Lebanon Lithuania [...]

How sweet would the revenge be for Poland’s Marcin Gortat, whose Orlando Magic lost to Gasol’s Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA finals, to send Spain packing in his home country? Tomorrow’s match between defending World Champions Spain and Eurobasket hosts Poland will determine which team will move on to the Eurobasket quarterfinals. With Lithuania [...]

According to Sports.pl, on September 19th, the day before EuroBasket’s final games, NBA superstar Allen Iverson will be in Poland to participate in a three-point contest. As of this writing, Iverson still doesn’t have an NBA team, but is reported to be in last-minute conversations with the Memphis Grizzlies. Whatever his destination, Iverson is scheduled [...]

The 36th regional FIBA European championship, or Eurobasket, will take place from September 7th until the 20th of September. (Discuss the tournament in our forum) The tournament will be hosted by seven cities in Poland – Gdansk, Poznan, Warszawa, Wroclaw, Bydgoszcz, Lodz and Katowice, and help to determine 6-7 spots in the 2010 World Championships to be held [...]

2009 has been a good year for Marcin Gortat. And it sounds as it will be getting better. Word is Gortat will be able to represent his country, Poland, as the hosts of the 2009 European Basketball Championships. The tournament is being held in seven cities in Poland – Gdańsk, Poznan, Warszawa, Wroclaw, Bydgoszcz, Katowice, and Łódź, [...]

It’s been a dream season for Hedo Turkoglu (discuss). Sure his stats are down, in fact Turkoglu’s stats have dropped in every major category from last season: points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, FG%, FT% and 3PT%. Last season Turkoglu averaged career-highs in points (19.5), rebounds (5.7), assists (5.0) and was named the NBA’s Most Improved Player. [...]

How we relate to basketball is generally decided by where we grew up and what we are exposed to. In the United States, the obvious influences are the N.B.A. and college basketball.  And in Europe, the Euroleague competition is the highest form of basketball on that continent. But what if you were a basketball fanatic [...]