Minnesota’s Anthony Tolliver ran down the floor, face unadulterated joy, staring at his hands as if in disbelief. Just seconds earlier Tolliver dropped a nail in the coffin corner three-pointer over the outstretched arms of Dirk Nowitzki. But the 98-82 fourth quarter lead over the defending champion Dallas Mavericks was not the source of celebration. [...]

For a moment in time the Memphis Grizzlies sat atop the basketball world, upsetting the no. 1 seed San Antonio Spurs in the first round of the 2011 NBA playoffs. It was a near historical run for a young Memphis team–only the second eighth seed to take out a first seed since the NBA switched [...]

Today, August 27th, 2011, is Interbasket’s eighth anniversary. Wish us a happy birthday in this thread or liking our Facebook page I really can’t believe that it’s been eight years since the first iteration of the forum came up (there was no news section).  Interbasket was born out of a small Arvydas Sabonis yahoo group, Interbasket [...]

Kyrie Irving from Duke and Canadian Tristan Thompson of Texas show off in their new Cleveland Cavalier’s jerseys Discuss the 2011 NBA Draft Irving, who was born in Australia, was selected #1 in the 2011 NBA Draft. Thompson was taken fourth overall.

The NBA draft included a record four international players who didn’t play at a U.S. college selected in the lottery, including five consecutive draft picks starting with the #3 pick Enes Kanter of Turkey, Tristan Thompson of Canada (#4), Jonas Valanciunas from Lithuania (#5), Jan Vesely of the Czech Republic (#6), and Bismack Biyembo of [...]

Three years after leaving Russia to go back to the NBA, Nenad Krstić is set move back to Europe and sign for CSKA Moscow. (Discuss Euroleague/Club Competition Summer Signings & Rumours in our Euroleague & Club Competition Forum) The Serbia national team centre agreed to a two-year deal worth six million euros with the reigning [...]

Defensive wizard Dimitris Diamantidis has been named MVP of the Euroleague after putting up career numbers in points (12.6 ppg) and the league leader in assists (6 apg). (Does Diamantidis deserve the Euroleague MVP?) Dimitris and his Panathinaikos team will take on Maccabi Elektra in the Euroleague Final. From Euroleague.net: …(Diamantidis) was also voted overwhelmingly [...]