It just wasn’t the Lakers night. The Lakers came into Quicken Loans Arena cocky and ended up losing to the NBA’s worst team, the Cleveland Cavs, a team that was just two games removed from a NBA record 26 consecutive losses by the Cavs.   Not only that, their two NBA all-stars, Kobe Bryant and Pau [...]

The Cleveland Cavs shocked the defending NBA Champions Los Angeles Lakers last night 104-99, despite a monstrous game by Laker All-Star Pau Gasol. (Discuss the Los Angeles Lakers loss to the Cleveland Cavs) Gasol scored 30 points and pulled down 20 rebounds, but we’re sure he would have given all those up in exchange for [...]

The 2009 NBA Draft has kept the Spanish league busy this summer, particularly club team DKV Joventut; Ricky Rubio‘s decision to leave the Spanish club after buyout negotiations was reported a couple days ago, Christian Eyenga has decided to remain with the Spanish team to hone his skills, and Ersan İlyasova may be returning to the NBA. [...]

Just images of some of the international players, and other players of interest, from the 2009 NBA Summer League. Check out the pic of Blake Griffin’s jam and the Japanese National Team that participated in this year’s summer league. They played against the New Orleans Hornets in Las Vegas. The team photo does not include [...]

We collected some Getty Images of the international players that were present at last night’s NBA Draft.  Hope you enjoy them.  Patrick Mills seems pretty happy despite doubling his position in several mock drafts, dropping to the 55th pick. Sorry, we couldn’t find any photos of Victor Claver, Sergio Lull, and Emir Preldzic.  All three players [...]

From the Congo to Israel to three players from Spain, there were fourteen international-born players selected in the 2009 NBA Draft. The fourteen players ended a sex-year slide in which fewer and fewer international players were chosen, from a record high of 21 international players chosen in 2003 to 2008, when there were just thirteen [...]