Interbasket

You don’t have to be an international basketball guru to recognize names like Dirk Nowitzki, Yao Ming, Manu Ginobili, Pau Gasol, Sarunas Jasikevicius, and Luis Scola. And to know that these players are going to play a significant role in their team’s success and most likely leaders in several statistical categories.
If you know names like Joaquim Gomes, [...]

With the Olympics all done and all the medals handed out. I thought it would be a good idea to collate some of the best Olympic basketball photos into one gallery. I’ve organized the Olympic photos by date, so you can follow the tournament as it progresses.
The images in this gallery are [...]

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 [...]

With a few days left before Olympic basketball begins, Interbasket is previewing the twelve national teams participating in the tournament.  We reviewed the six teams in Group A on Tuesday, and we’ll be reviewing Group B today. (Click here for Olympic Basketball Group A Preview).
With the United States, Spain and Greece all in Group B, [...]

The nomination period is now over and the nominees for IBN’s 2007 Awards have been selected - now it’s up to you to decide which player has had the best 2007, as far as performances, awards, medals and records, in the following categories:
* 2007 IBN Player of the Year (<- click to vote)
* [...]