Down three points with one second remaining, 78-75 Slovenia‘s Goran Dragić was fouled by Spain’s Ricky Rubio. Dragic made the all important first free throw, bringing Slovenia within two points. With the easy part over, now came the difficult part – Dragic had to miss the next free throw to give his teammates a chance at [...]

Sasha Vujačić won’t be playing for Slovenia in this year’s Eurobasket after being sent home by head coach Jure Zdovc days before the tournament. Slovenia also cut center Miha Zupan, but the real news is Vujacic’s surprising dismissal from a team that has been asking the 6-7 guard to come home and represent Slovenia for [...]

With Nate Robinson tweeting all about his arrest the other night, I thought it would be a good time to collect the Twitter accounts of professional basketball players from around the world.  Don’t forget, if you have a twitter account, to follow Interbasket on Twitter. International NBA player Twitter Accounts: Adonal Foyle: @Afoyle3131 Andrew Bogut: @AndrewMBogut Bostjan Nachbar: @BokiNachbar [...]

Just released last week was a survey of NBA general managers, with their thoughts on who was the best international player in the NBA, as well as outside of the league.  Some other questions included who would win the NBA Championship in 2008-09, best rookie, and many more. Of course, here at Interbasket, we are [...]

And the beat goes on.  A day after Josh Childress set a huge precedent in where he chose to play with Greek club Olympiakos instead of the Atlanta Hawks, there are now reports that Dynamo Moscow has put an offer in front of Delonte West of the Cleveland Cavaliers. The contract is for two-years and [...]

With only four NBA teams remaining and the conference finals coming to a close, many of the NBA players from around the world are prepping for the Beijing Olympics this summer. Players such as Yao Ming, Andrei Kirilenko, Jose Calderon, Linas Kleiza, Luis Scola and Andrew Bogut will be suiting up for their respective countries [...]

Every Wednesday during the NBA season, interbasket takes a closer look at ten international NBA players that has caught our eye. (This week is for period 11/22 – 11/28/2007) We start with some big news out of Toronto. Spanish small forward and Toronto Raptor Jorge Garbajosa is going to have another surgery on his leg. [...]