Interbasket

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 [...]

This month’s SLAM Magazine report is featured in the “In your face” section and focuses on the seemingly ubiquitous Sasha Vujacic, whom really made a name for himself this season, and especially in the 2008 Playoffs.

In Your Face: Teacher’s Pest
He always knew. Always felt the gaze.
Or, worse, the disapproval. He knew he was [...]

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, [...]

It’s hard to keep up with basketball news when your niche is to cover the world.  I know we could do more in covering the world’s basketball news, but sometimes time doesn’t permit.  In response to that, we have started the Global Run-On Sentence which will serve to give quick hits and shotd of global [...]

Whomever gave Sasha Vujacic the nickname “The Machine” - whether it was Sasha himself (as it’s been widely reported) or Laker staff (Stu Lantz), the nickname has certainly gotten some play around the web.  I ran across this video yesterday at the Ball Don’t Lie blog:

But on the serious side, Sasha has really developed into [...]

It’s very unusual to see Manu Ginobili struggle.  It was the first time I watched Ginobili and thought, “Wow, he looks tired.” And it didn’t help that he had the feisty, annoying Sasha Vujacic harassing him.
It was evident that something was off.  However, I don’t want to credit Sasha Vujacic entirely for Ginobili’s struggles because [...]

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 [...]

This week we pay tribute to Zeljko Rebraca. We also look at the Yao’s anger, dissect Steve Nash’s comments, Diaw’s disappointing season, Nene’s back, the Brezec and Herrmann trade, under-rated Fabricio Oberto, Juan Carlos Navarro finding his stride, and plead Don Nelson to play Andris Biedrins more minutes. Every Wednesday during the [...]