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Australia 95: Russia 80 -  in a small upset, Australia rolled over favored-Russia 95-80.
The Boomers used a 10-2 spurt in the final two minutes of the first quarter to take an eleven-point lead after one period, and built it to a 16-point distance at halftime.
The Aussies were bolstered throughout the game by their  three-point shooting, [...]

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 [...]

Following the completion of the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men, the field of 12 national teams at the upcoming Beijing 2008 Olympic Games were finalized, as was the game schedule for group play set for August 10-18th.
Every team in Groups A and B will play five games, one game against each team in [...]

With less than a week left before Olympic basketball begins, Interbasket is previewing the twelve national teams participating in the tournament.  We will review the six teams in Group A today and Group B later on this week (Click here for Olympic Basketball Group B Preview).
Group A is filled with teams that are more equally-matched.  [...]

With the two Olympic Basketball Groups now set and determined, which group would you rather be in?  Or as a thread in our Olympic Basketball Forum asks, “which is the Group of Death, A or B?”
The twelve participating national teams were randomly drawn into two separate groups..  Each of the two group will have six [...]

And the beat goes on.  A day after Josh Childress set a huge precedent in where he chose to play with Greek club Olympiakos instead of the Atlanta Hawks, there are now reports that Dynamo Moscow has put an offer in front of Delonte West of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The contract is for two-years and $10 [...]

The last couple weeks have been good to Andrei Kirilenko.
After all, his Russian National Team won the 2007 Eurobasket gold. And not only that, Kirilenko was named the MVP of the tournament after he averaged 18.0 ppg, 8.6 rpg, 2.4 apg, 2.2 spg and 1.8 bpg. And with the win, Kirilenko and [...]

Who will host the FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament?
With all the regional championships completed and nine teams set for next year’s Olympic games, three berths remain for teams vying for Beijing. And those three remaining spots will be determined by the FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men that will be held [...]