The Toronto Raptor’s two Italian players Andrea Bargnani and Marco Belinelli will make an appearance at this weekend’s Sport & Design.it event being held at at Yonge-Dundas Square in downtown Toronto. The two will appear Saturday, October 24, 2009, from 3:00-4:00 p.m. The Sport & Design.it exhibition is a ten-day event of Italian-made sporting goods [...]

New York Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni recently gave one of Europe’s finest young players one of the biggest compliments he could ever muster when he tabbed Danilo Gallinari as the ‘best shooter I have ever seen’. The Knicks are counting on the Italian to have a major role on their team this season, and he [...]

Danilo Gallinari spent the majority of his rookie year frustrated with a back injury that had him on the sidelines more than in the game (discuss Gallinari). And when Gallinari was in the game, he played only sparingly. The sixth-overall pick of the 2008 NBA Draft participated in only 28 games last season, but did [...]

Right now Tony Parker is somewhere in San Antonio rehabbing an ankle sprain, but no doubt the 6-2 point guard would rather be in France. Alerted to a mild ankle sprain Parker suffered on July 23 in a warmup game against Austria, the San Antonio Spurs called Parker back to the U.S.A. so that he could be checked [...]

The senior national teams from Italy and Canada participated in a “friendly” game Saturday night that ended in a brawl between the two teams (discuss) Physical play between Italy’s Stefano Mancinelli and Canada’s Aaron Doornekamp at the end of the game prompted the fight between the two teams. After being pushed, Mancinelli delivers an elbow to the [...]

In preparation for the FIBA Oceania Championships, the Tall Blacks of New Zealand set out on a eight-game European tour. Unfortunately, they ended the stint with more questions than answers as the Tall Blacks dropped six of the eight games. Their six losses came at the hands of Estonia (2), Canada, Italy, Belgium, and Finland respectively. [...]