In a move that was reported three weeks ago, when Fabricio Oberto verbally agreed to join the Washington Wizards for the coming season, Oberto finally arrived in Washington and signed a one-year deal worth about $2 million. “Fabricio is a proven winner with extensive playoff experience,” said Ernie Grunfeld, the Wizards president of basketball operations. “He is [...]

With Hedo Türkoğlu ready to sign on the dotted line with the Toronto Raptors tomorrow, there aren’t too many international NBA free agents left to be had. Interbasket scanned the list of remaining foreign-born free agents and came up with our top ten international free agents, both restricted and unrestricted, still swimming about in free agent waters. 1. Linas [...]

The 2009 FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Men are going on right now in Auckland, New Zealand. The tournament runs from July 02, 2009 – July 12, 2009. Discuss the 2009 U19 World Championships The 9th annual World Championships for U19 Men features 16 U19 national teams from around the world. The coutries participating in the 2009 FIBA-sanctioned [...]

What: Tuto Marchand Cup 2009 When: August 18 – 20th, 2009 Where: San Juan, Puerto Rico Talk: Tuto Marchand Cup Discussion Info: The Tuto Marchand cup in being held in the Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot in San Juan. The second annual tournament will feature the exact four teams that participated in the 2007 [...]

Phoenix Suns trade SHAQ for Ben Wallace and Sasha Pavlovic (discuss).  Shaquille O’Neal and LeBron James TOGETHER…  in Cleveland.   Kind of anti-climactic, no?  Apparently, Shaq discovered that he was traded via Twitter (@THE_REAL_SHAQ) Retweeting Kareem (@kaj33) – My top 10 Intl’ players in the league & why http://bit.ly/GsBl2 Update: Kareem answers why Yao Ming wasn’t [...]

Interbasket was lucky enough to score a short interview with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer. The 7-2 center’s basketball career spanned 30 years where he left a mark at every level.  Kareem scored nearly 40,000 points in his NBA career (38,387 to be exact) and took several NBA records with him when he retired [...]