The Memphis Grizzlies sent rookie center Hasheem Thabeet, who was drafted 2nd overall in last year’s NBA draft, to the Dakota Wizards of the NBA Development League. The move makes the 7-foot-3 Thabeet the highest NBA draft pick to be placed in the NBA’s minor league. (Discuss Hasheem Thabeet sent to the D-League in our [...]

Interbasket’s quick roundup of the international NBA player performances during the last few days in the NBA.. This week we’ll discuss Luol Deng doing work, injured international players in Golden State, Pau Gasol‘s golden return, and Hasheem Thabeet‘s very rough NBA start. Discuss the NBA in our forum. The unspectacular Luol Deng just gets the work done [...]

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 [...]

Two international centers will clash under the basket during the N.C.A.A.’s Final Four. If you are following the Final Four this weekend, you’ll most-likely be hearing about UConn’s Hasheem Thabeet and Michigan State’s Goran Suton. Thabeet is a happy-go-lucky, shot-blocking UConn center that has improved dramatically over the last three years, and Suton is the [...]

When we made our “Top Ten International Players to Watch during March Madness” list out, we made a huge mistake by not including USC’s Daniel Hackett in our initial list.  Going into this weekend’s final four, we’ve watched the games and done the  research, in order to followup on our list and re-ranking the players [...]

With the 64 teams matched up, March Madness is less than 12 hours away.  And with that, Interbasket has collected the names of the top ten international players in this year’s field (discuss). It’s a shame that the St. Mary’s Gaels and the Viriginia Tech Hokies didn’t make the tournament, that forced us to leave [...]

Hasheem Thabeet (discuss) continues to add honors to his resume. Today the 7-3 center from Tanzania was named co-Player of the Year in the conference along with fellow big man and nemesis in the pivot DeJuan Blair of Pitt. According to the Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese, it was the closest vote in years for [...]