This week’s quick roundup of the international player performances during the last few days includes discussion about Andrew Bogut‘s return, Sergio Rodriguez’s career high, Euroleague’s November MVP Pete Mickeal, Serge Ibaka, injuries to Andrei Kirilenko, Luis Scola and more. Discuss the NBA in our forum. Andrew Bogut returned in successful fashion last night with 22 points, [...]

The almost 37-year old Steve Nash has been revitalized in the early season. Nash tallied 21 points and 20 assists in a Phoenix win against the the Sixers last night. Without Shaq holding down the offense, Nash is averaging 12.9 assists through 8 games and has had games of 14, 17, 20, and 20 assists, [...]

A few days ago, we looked at five NBA teams with the least amount of international diversity. From a look at the comments, it definitely hit a nerve with many readers. The overall feeling was that international diversity didn’t really matter; that Interbasket was creating some form of controversy out of nothing. (Discuss the NBA’s [...]

The NBA season is upon us and the clubs were in action this past week with NBA Media Day – a chance for the local and national media to interview the players about this upcoming season, have the players stick their feet in their mouth, pose for photographs, and have a jolly old time. Below [...]

If you’ve been following this year’s Eurobasket, you’ll have noticed that team Russia, the 2007 defending champions,  isn’t the same squad. Russia is missing 2007 MVP and Utah Jazz star Andrei Kirilenko, naturalized point guard J.R. Holden, as well as veteran frontcourt players Viktor Khryapa, Nikita Morgunov and Aleksey Savrasenko. Naturalized player J.R. Holden had [...]

It was just announced that Dirk Nowitzki will not participate in this year’s Eurobasket tournament. The loss of the 7-0 NBA all-star forward severely hampers Germany‘s chances in obtaining a spot in the 2010 World Championships. The owner of Nowitzki’s NBA team, Mark Cuban, would not allow Nowitzki to take part in the championship, said the German [...]

NBA.com just released their top ten plays by international NBA players during the 2008-09 season featuring Marcin Gortat‘s left hand smash on Samuel Dalembert, Steve Nash abusing Anderson Varejão off the dribble, Yao Ming‘s flip shot over Marc Gasol, Hedo Türkoğlu blocking Kobe Bryant, Manu Ginóbili, Andrei Kirilenko, Rudy Fernández flying through the air, and [...]