2008 Olympic Basketball Photo Gallery

With the Olympics all done and all the medals handed out. I thought it would be a good idea to collate some of the best Olympic basketball photos into one gallery. I’ve organized the Olympic photos by date, so you can follow the tournament as it progresses. The images in this gallery are taken from, [...]

Video: Rudy Fernandez dunk on Dwight Howard

Well, it’s not quite a video of the dunk, but it’s a nice animated gif that shows just how great Rudy Fernandez’s dunk really was during the second half of the Olympic gold medal game. On the play, Rudy Fernandez and Pau Gasol ran a very loose pick and roll on Kobe Bryant and Dwight [...]

USA defeats Spain 118-107, wins Gold Medal

The United States Men’s basketball team, dubbed the Redeem Team, captured the Olympic gold medal for basketball yesterday, defeating Spain 118-107 in a tightly-contested and high-scoring game (replay). The 2008 US National Team has shunned any comparisons to the iconic Dream Team, and ironically, they’re probably the closest thing to the 1992 team in terms [...]

2008 Olympics Basketball Preview: Group B

With a few days left before Olympic basketball begins, Interbasket is previewing the twelve national teams participating in the tournament.  We reviewed the six teams in Group A on Tuesday, and we’ll be reviewing Group B today. (Click here for Olympic Basketball Group A Preview). With the United States, Spain and Greece all in Group [...]

Jason Kidd Back in Dallas

Jason Kidd is apparently headed back to Dallas, where he started his career almost 14 years ago. The star power and talent continues to shift to the Western Conference. With Pau Gasol being sent to the Lakers in exchange for a bag of peanut butter cookies, and Shaquille O’Neal traded to the Phoenix Suns for [...]

10 NBA Players from Around the World (01/09)

Every Wednesday during the NBA season, Interbasket takes a closer look at ten international NBA players that has caught our eyes, our good eye or our stinkeye. (This week is for period 01/02/2008- 01/08/2008) This week Andrew Bogut and Yi Jianlian are performing in different directions, Tony Parker receives an important award, the pros and [...]

Around the NBA: 10 Players from Around the World (11/21)

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 11/15-11/21/2007. After three years of gathering splinters on the bench (and two championship rings), and with Jacque Vaughn getting the backup PG calls, little-used Beno Udrih was finally traded [...]

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