The Miami Heat have overcome their early season wobbles to become one of the NBA’s best teams, but they are a long way from the finished article. (Discuss the Miami Heat and Orlando Magic in our basketball forum) Carrying a 43-17 record into Thursday night’s home game against Florida rivals Orlando and seemingly in command [...]

Aussie center Andrew Bogut took advantage of a decimated Magic squad lacking superstar center Dwight Howard, all-star guard Jameer Nelson, and sharpshooter J.J. Redick, all out with a stomach virus. (Discuss Andrew Bogut’s NBA season in our Australian forum) In the Buck’s 96-85 win, the 7-0 pivot scored a season-high 31 points by hitting 13-20 [...]

Orlando Magic center Marcin Gortat would like to be playing more minutes. “I love the organization, but I’m not going to stay here being a back-up player and playing five minutes a game,” Gortat said. “I hope people understand that. I know I can have a bigger role on another team.” The problem? Gortat plays [...]

It was swingman on swingman as Argentinian Carlos Delfino had a monster block on Frenchman Mickael Pietrus. Check out the high-flying swat. The Orlando Magic won the game 100-98 over the Milwaukee Bucks. Delfino scored 9 points on 2-7 shooting, Pietrus was held scoreless. Dwight Howard dominated the middle with 25 points, 20 rebounds, and [...]

It’s been a dream season for Hedo Turkoglu (discuss). Sure his stats are down, in fact Turkoglu’s stats have dropped in every major category from last season: points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, FG%, FT% and 3PT%. Last season Turkoglu averaged career-highs in points (19.5), rebounds (5.7), assists (5.0) and was named the NBA’s Most Improved Player. [...]

Today’s pic is dedicated to the man child of all man children dunking on another man child. Um… ok, English = Dwight Howard dunking on LeBron James, 7-3 Lithuanian Zydrunas Ilguaskas and Delonte West can’t get into the picture quick enough! It’s really hard to make NBA players look helpless, much less LeBron James, but [...]

Interbasket is happy to announced our 2008 IBN Award Winners.  I feel this year’s winners are the most diverse and on-point in the three-year history of the awards. With both well-known and lesser known players being nominated this year, our third annual Interbasket award winners  mirrored many of the mainstream awards handed out by their [...]