Event: 2009 Americas Championships Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico Discuss: Americas Championships Thread Info: The tournament will determine which four teams qualify for the 2010 FIBA World Championships of Basketball. The tournament will feature ten teams from Northern and Latin Americas: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The favorites coming into [...]

After holding a glimmer of hope that Eduardo Nájera may don the green and red for Mexico, that hope crashed when the NBA ruled that it wasn’t in their best interest. It was announced today that the 10-year NBA veteran will not participate in this year’s FIBA Americas Championships. Najera was unable to receive clearance [...]

With Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan, Bruce Bowen and Marcus Camby being named to the NBA’s All-defensive first-team today, and no international players named to the second team, it got me wondering. What does an all-defensive team look like it, if it was solely comprised of all foreign-born NBA players? Keeping in mind that [...]

With the NBA playoffs about to begin this weekend, Ibn would be remiss not to talk about the unprecedented competitive Western Conference this year and the roles that international players are having on every playoff-bound team. It’s just crazy to think that Dallas is the seventh seed, San Antonio or Phoenix will be sitting out [...]