Bydgoszcz - French team rookie Nando De Colo scored a total of six points; the good thing for France was that those six points were all in the last 1:31. With Tony Parker on the bench, the 22-year old guard, who was drafted by the San Antonio Spurs, drained a jumper at the buzzer to lift France [...]

In the Eurobasket game of the day, it’s the NBA vs. Euroleague when France takes on Greece today for the top spot in Group E. France boasts six current and prospective NBA players with four of their five starters, participating in the 2009-2010 NBA season. Along with Mickaël Piétrus’ brother Florent, France starts star guard Tony [...]

After three games of group play, three teams came out of the first phase of Eurobasket unscathed. France, Greece, and Turkey all were undefeated. In Group A, Greece won their three matches by an average of 22 points per game. Without their veteran backcourt of Theodoros Papaloukas and Dimitris Diamantidis, Vasileios Spanoulis and Ioannis Bourousis [...]

The final two teams playing for a berth to Eurobasket, France and Belgium, played a two game series to determine who would go to Eurobasket. Belgium took the first game over Les Bleus 70-66. That meant that France had to come out and defeat the Belgians by more than four points in the second, and [...]

Two NBA teams re-signed their backup centers. Yeah, it’s the NBA off-season, so this qualifies as news. The New Orleans Hornets brought back Kiwi Sean Marks. The 6-foot-10, 250-pound New Zealand native averaged 3.2 points and 3.1 rebounds in 14.1 minutes for the Hornets last season. The 34-year old Marks is a nine-year NBA veteran journeyman, having [...]

Antwerp – Belgium is one game closer to advancing to the Eurobasket 2009 tournament after winning a close game over France 70-66. The two teams are playing a two-game series, home and away, to determine the final selection to the Eurobasket tournament starting September 07, 2009. The tightly-contested game was opened up when Belgium’s long range [...]

Fifteen of the sixteen Eurobasket teams have been determined, and they await the winner of France and Belgium, who will compete in a two game series for the final berth to Eurobasket. The two teams will play a home-and-away two-game series for the right to move on to Poland, where Eurobasket is being held this [...]