Pau Gasol, the Los Angeles Lakers forward and NBA all-star, has decided that he will join the Spanish National Team during this year’s Eurobasket.  “The (NBA) season went really well for me and now I want to defend our country,” Gasol said. “We’re really hopeful about the team we have, but we can’t go there [...]

With Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan, Bruce Bowen and Marcus Camby being named to the NBA’s All-defensive first-team today, and no international players named to the second team, it got me wondering. What does an all-defensive team look like it, if it was solely comprised of all foreign-born NBA players? Keeping in mind that [...]