Despite being down 19 points in the first quarter, France used 28 points and 10 assists from Tony Parker and a full day of rest to hand Turkey their second defeat in less than 18 hours (discuss). Turkey tasted defeat for the first time when they were eliminated by Greece in yesterday’s quarterfinals. “Because of [...]

Behind Vasileios Spanoulis’s 23 points and 13 points from Nikos Zisis, Greece handed the prviously-undefeated Turks their first loss of the tournament 76-74 in the Eurobasket quarterfinals. (Discuss the Turkey-Greece match in our forum) Turkey‘s Ender Arslan hit a left-handed, underhand layup as regulation closed to send it into overtime tied at 65-65. From there, [...]

The 12 giants from Turkey held their Serbian opponents without a point in overtime to win 69-64, to maintain their unblemished record at Eurobasket. In the extra period, Semih Erden again split his free throws, Ersan İlyasova scored a layup, and Ender Arslan hit two free throws while Serbia missed all eight of their field [...]

Łódź – Turkey held onto a 63-60 win over world champion Spain as Ersan İlyasova blocked Spanish guard Sergio Llull with on Spain’s penultimate possession. (Discuss the Turkey-Spain match in our forum) Down 61-60, Spain had a chance to win it with 13 seconds to play. The 6-2 Llull drove to the basket; attempted to [...]

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 [...]

Just when Interbasket was getting all excited the Toronto Raptors and all the international players they had on their roster… Now comes this rumour that the Canadian NBA franchise is trading away Argentinian Carlos Delfino and Croatian backup point guard Roko Ukić to the Milwukee Bucks for Amir Johnson. If true, Toronto will no longer have [...]

2009 has been a good year for Marcin Gortat. And it sounds as it will be getting better. Word is Gortat will be able to represent his country, Poland, as the hosts of the 2009 European Basketball Championships. The tournament is being held in seven cities in Poland – Gdańsk, Poznan, Warszawa, Wroclaw, Bydgoszcz, Katowice, and Łódź, [...]