In a battle of two of the East’s top teams, it took a great birthday performance by LeBron James and a late, shot-clock beating three-ponter from Anderson Varejão for the Cleveland Cavs to defeat the Atlanta Hawks 106-101. (Talk NBA Basketball in our forum) With the game tied at 101, LeBron James couldn’t find an [...]

It’s been a busy week for FIBA as they announced the four wild cards on Saturday, and determined the top four seeds for the World Championships of Basketball on Sunday. Now the federation that overseas international basketball has announced the draw results that will determine the groupings for the 2010 world basketball event in Istanbul, Turkey. [...]

The Cleveland Cavalier’s Anderson Varejão was honored with the 2009 Olympic Brazil award for the best player of the country. This year has been special for the 27-year old Brazilian Varejão as he was a key component to the 2008-09 Cavs,  who recorded an NBA-best 66-16 record, but fell to the Orlando Magic in the Eastern Conference [...]

On Tuesday, eleven basketball legends that greatly contributed to the game of basketaball as players, coaches, referees, or contributors were inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame in Alcobendas (Madrid, Spain). The men and women of the 2009 inductees included US and NBA great Oscar Robertson (USA), national team hero Ricardo González (Argentina), women’s basketball [...]

San Juan, PR – Brazil barely squeaked by Puerto Rico 61-60 to capture te gold medal in the 2009 FIBA Americas Championships. (Discuss the game) Brazil steadily built up a 13-point lead going into the fourth quarter before the hosts tightened up their defense to gradually pick away at Brazil’s margin. Puerto Rico’s AD Vasallo [...]

The top-two seeded teams will battle for FIBA Americas gold tomorrow. Brazil and Puerto Rico each won their semi-finals game today and will meet up for the second time in three days. Puerto Rico handed Brazil their first loss on Friday night 74-70, and though both teams had a 7-1 record, Brazil ended up with the [...]

In a battle of two heavyweights on the last day of the FIBA Americas quarterfinals, Puerto Rico blew a 19 point lead in the fourth quarter, still ended up winning the battle, but losing the quarterfinals war to Brazil. Despite giving Brazil their first loss of the tournament, and having the same record, Puerto Rico [...]