NBA.com just released their top ten plays by international NBA players during the 2008-09 season featuring Marcin Gortat‘s left hand smash on Samuel Dalembert, Steve Nash abusing Anderson Varejão off the dribble, Yao Ming‘s flip shot over Marc Gasol, Hedo Türkoğlu blocking Kobe Bryant, Manu Ginóbili, Andrei Kirilenko, Rudy Fernández flying through the air, and [...]

The Toronto Raptors, already the third most-international roster in the NBA last season, just added to their global diversity. The Raptors picked up 6-5 Italian Marco Belinelli to a roster that already included six international players. Toronto traded 31-year old journeyman Devean George and “cash considerations” to the Golden State Warriors for Belinelli. The 23-year old [...]

With Hedo Türkoğlu ready to sign on the dotted line with the Toronto Raptors tomorrow, there aren’t too many international NBA free agents left to be had. Interbasket scanned the list of remaining foreign-born free agents and came up with our top ten international free agents, both restricted and unrestricted, still swimming about in free agent waters. 1. Linas [...]

Well that was fast. A day after Hedo Türkoğlu agreed in principle to sign with the Portland Trailblazers, the Turkish superstar backed out of his verbal commitment faster than you can say “bigger contract.” On Thursday, Türkoğlu unofficially accepted a five-year $50 million dollar offer from the Blazers… before arriving in Toronto today and being [...]

It sounds like Hedo Türkoğlu, the 30-year old point-forward that led the Orlando Magic into the NBA Finals, has come to an agreement to join the Portland Trailblazers in principle. The contract is reportedly for five years and $50 million dollars.  Portland has accomplished their primary mission; they’ve been chasing free agent Türkoğlu since the [...]

This year’s Eurobasket – European men’s basketball championship will take place in Poland from the 7th till the 20th of September. It will be hosted by seven cities – Gdańsk, Poznan, Warszawa, Wroclaw, Bydgoszcz, Lodz and Katowice. The lineups will include such players as Marko Jaric, Marc Gasol, Chris Kaman, Marcin Gortat or Hidayet Turkoglu. [...]

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. [...]