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 [...]

Yao’s foot sponsors Trevor Ariza signing –  After the Rockets discovered the severity of Yao’s injury, they immediately applied for a “disabled player exception” and that was approved by the league.  The NBA agreed that it was very unlikely that Yao Ming would make a return this season, and freed up anough money to bring in free-agent Trevor [...]

Pescara, Italy – Croatia took home the Mediterranean Games gold medal yesterday with an 82-70 win over Greece (discuss). Team Croatia outscored Team Hellas 16-9 in the final quarter to secure their first ever Mediterranean gold medal. Damir Rancic finished with 20 points, including five three pointers, and Ante Tomić contributed 13 points and 11 rebounds for Team Croatia, [...]

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. [...]

How we relate to basketball is generally decided by where we grew up and what we are exposed to. In the United States, the obvious influences are the N.B.A. and college basketball.  And in Europe, the Euroleague competition is the highest form of basketball on that continent. But what if you were a basketball fanatic [...]

When we made our “Top Ten International Players to Watch during March Madness” list out, we made a huge mistake by not including USC’s Daniel Hackett in our initial list.  Going into this weekend’s final four, we’ve watched the games and done the  research, in order to followup on our list and re-ranking the players [...]

Rooster Having Trouble Crowing Danilo “the Rooster” Gallinari’s future in basketball is at a standstill. Reports from New York say that Gallinari has left the team and is now in Italy, discussing the possibility of season-ending surgery to heal his back, which has multiple bulging discs. In games where he has played, Gallinari has been [...]