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Celtics win NBA Title without an International Player (Not counting Sam Cassell)

With the Boston Celtics blowing out the Lakers 131-92 last night, they went on to win their 17th championship for the franchise.  Not only that, the Celtics became just the second team in the last 15 seasons to win the NBA title without one international player on their roster.
And that’s not counting Sam Cassell as foreign.
Ok, [...]

What’s your All-defensive international NBA team look like?

With Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan, Bruce Bowen and Marcus Camby being named to the NBA’s All-defensive first-team today, and no international players named to the second team, it got me wondering.
What does an all-defensive team look like it, if it was solely comprised of all foreign-born NBA players?
Keeping in mind that we’re not [...]

Impact International Players in the 2008 NBA Playoffs

With the NBA playoffs about to begin this weekend, Ibn would be remiss not to talk about the unprecedented competitive Western Conference this year and the roles that international players are having on every playoff-bound team. It’s just crazy to think that Dallas is the seventh seed, San Antonio or Phoenix will be sitting out [...]

10 NBA Players from Around the World (01/09)

Every Wednesday during the NBA season, Interbasket takes a closer look at ten international NBA players that has caught our eyes, our good eye or our stinkeye. (This week is for period 01/02/2008- 01/08/2008)
This week Andrew Bogut and Yi Jianlian are performing in different directions, Tony Parker receives an important award, the pros and cons [...]

Israel Shocks Serbia 87-83, Advances to Phase Two

Day three of Eurobasket 2007 saw several upsets that changed the face of the next round:
Israel 87: Serbia 83 (game thread)
Israel shocked Serbia today behind an excellent performance from Yaniv Green. Israel was the 16th and final team to qualify for EuroBasket.
Coming into the game, many believed that the size of the Serbs [...]

EuroBasket 2007 Mini-Preview

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 [...]