Rumors have French forward Boris Diaw being traded from the Charlotte Bobcats to the Toronto Raptors for Spanish point guard Jose Calderón. (Discuss the trade in our NBA Forum) The move is to help the Bobcats obtain another point guard after their Raymond Felton, Charlotte’s starting point guard from last season, signed with the New [...]

Dirk Nowitzki did it again; this time with a headband. The 7-0 German power forward for the Dallas Maveicks hit another game-winning, fadeway jumper last night. This time the shot came over Boris Diaw with just 1.7 second remaining to lead the Mavericks to a 98-97 overtime win over the Charlotte Bobcats. Check the video: [...]

At the beginning of the NBA season last night, the league boasted 83 foreign-born players, from 37 different countries on opening day rosters. The 83 players ties the record for the most international players set in 2006-07. The Milwaukee Bucks’ fifteen player-roster (both active and inactive) features a league-high seven international players. The Bucks’ roster has Aussie [...]

Katowice - The first day of the quarterfinals are here and no less than 15 former, current, and future NBA players will be participating in the game. (discuss the France – Spain quarterfinal) Spain features nine players with NBA affiliations, while France has six players with ties to the NBA. Everyone already knows the two stars, [...]

In the Eurobasket game of the day, it’s the NBA vs. Euroleague when France takes on Greece today for the top spot in Group E. France boasts six current and prospective NBA players with four of their five starters, participating in the 2009-2010 NBA season. Along with Mickaël Piétrus’ brother Florent, France starts star guard Tony [...]

After three games of group play, three teams came out of the first phase of Eurobasket unscathed. France, Greece, and Turkey all were undefeated. In Group A, Greece won their three matches by an average of 22 points per game. Without their veteran backcourt of Theodoros Papaloukas and Dimitris Diamantidis, Vasileios Spanoulis and Ioannis Bourousis [...]

The final two teams playing for a berth to Eurobasket, France and Belgium, played a two game series to determine who would go to Eurobasket. Belgium took the first game over Les Bleus 70-66. That meant that France had to come out and defeat the Belgians by more than four points in the second, and [...]