It’s been a busy day for Greek club Olympiakos Piraeus. After signing Von Wafer earlier in the day, Olympiakos inked Lithuanian power forward Linas Kleiza to a 2-year, $12.2 million dollar contract.  The last few days, sources have said that Kleiza and the club was close to reaching an agreement. (Discuss Linas Kleiza’s signing with [...]

Olympiakos, the Greek club that continues to go after NBA free agents, is now going after Allen Iverson; offering the 6-0 guard a $10 million contract over two years (discuss). The $10 million dollar offer is close to the numbers that Iverson is seeking in free agency, but is Iverson willing to head overseas, play [...]

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 [...]

Interbasket was lucky enough to score a short interview with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer. The 7-2 center’s basketball career spanned 30 years where he left a mark at every level.  Kareem scored nearly 40,000 points in his NBA career (38,387 to be exact) and took several NBA records with him when he retired [...]

Denver, Colorado – Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers falls down after being fouled by Linas Kleiza of the Denver Nuggets. As gravity brings Bryant down, the ball flies into the air making for Interbasket’s pic of the day. The Lakers blew out the Denver NUggets 119-92 in Game Six of the Western Conference [...]

With athleticism, energy, and determination, the Denver Nuggets evened up their series up with a 120-101 win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Monday night. Along with J.R. Smith’s 24 points off the bench, the Nuggets’ front court athleticism were the story of the game as Denver’s big men completely overwhelmed the Laker frontcourt. With [...]

Rudy Fernandez scores 23 points for the Blazers, defeating the Suns 129-109, and dimming Phoenix’s playoff hopes.  The game marked Rudy’s first 20 point game since November 12th, 2008 – Fernandez’s quick start of the season. Behind Dirk Nowitzki‘s 26 points, 5 rebounds, and 5 assists, the Mavericks hammer the Warriors 128-106.  Puerto Rican waterbug [...]