This week’s quick international roundup of the player performances during the last few days. This post includes discussion about Yi Jianlian‘s return to the New Jersey Nets, Pau Gasol‘s extension, Luol Deng and Joakim Noah’s contributions to the Chicago Bulls, J.J. Barea’s career year, and Žalgiris Kaunas fills their head coach position. Yi Jianlian returned [...]

Guillermo Jose Diaz is a 6-2 guard from Puerto Rico known for his amazing leaping ability so much so that his nickname is “Superman”. (Discuss Puerto Rican basketball in our forum) Diaz’s talent was noticed early when he played high school basketball at the Miami Christian School, Miami alongside future NBA’er and Puerto Rican star [...]

This week’s quick roundup of the player performances around the world during the last few days includes discussion about Hasheem Thabeet‘s two assists, Aleksandr Marić’s monster game, Von Wafer’s European adventure, Darius Songaila’s sharp-shooting, FIBA chooses the wild cards, Danilo Gallinari off the bench and more. Discuss the NBA in our forum. It was a good [...]

What: Tuto Marchand Cup 2009 When: August 18 – 20th, 2009 Where: San Juan, Puerto Rico Talk: Tuto Marchand Cup Discussion Info: The Tuto Marchand cup in being held in the Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot in San Juan. The second annual tournament will feature the exact four teams that participated in the 2007 [...]

In the last 7 games Pau Gasol has recorded 5 double-doubles and is averaging 20 points, 10.1 rebounds, 4.1 assists, and 1.4 blocks as the Lakers have gone 6-1. (Dec 14th) After going 6-6 without Manu Ginobili, the Spurs are now 9-2 in their last 11 games since Manu returned to the lineup. The Argentine [...]

Dirk Nowitzki may have won the most recent NBA player of the week, and will get much of the credit for leading the Dallas Mavericks to a 3-0 week after putting up 30.7 points and 10 rebounds, but it hasn’t gone without notice that Jose Juan Barea that has provided the much-needed spark. With Josh [...]