Jonas Jerebko, the first NBA player from Sweden, has been on a tear as of late. In the last six games, the 22-year old rookie has averaged 13.7 points on 52.6% from the field, 7.7 rebounds and has recorded three games of double-doubles. The Pistons have won four of six. The second round pick is [...]

When the Sacramento Kings and Memphis Grizzlies take the floor tonight for their first game of the 2009-10 season, it will be especially significant for the countries of Israel and Tanzania. Joining Pepe Sánchez (Argentina), Wang Zhizhi (China), Šarūnas Marčiulionis (Lithuania), and others, rookies Omri Casspi (Israel) and Hasheem Thabeet (Tanzania) will be their countries’ first ever [...]

If  basketball popularity coincided with the average height of the country’s population, then Scandinavia should have many more professional basketball players. At least according to some data that was compiled by one of our forum members, tpraseri (see Average Height by Country thread). Tpraseri compiled data from across the internet, listed out the average heights [...]

Jonas Jerebko is an athletic and aggressive 6-10 power forward from Sweden and is likely to become the first Swede to step foot on an NBA court come next season. Selected with the 39th pick in this year’s NBA draft, Jerebko had to sit out the first two summer league practices before receiving clearance from [...]

While Ricky Rubio and Brandon Jennings continue their petty little pre-draft spat there are plenty of other players in Europe that are of  interest to NBA scouts as the big night looms on the horizon just a couple of weeks away. Among the more intriguing prospects this season is Sweden’s Jonas Jerebko (discuss), who has been [...]