We are onlyy one day away from FIBA announcing the final four countries that will fill the tournament field for the 2010 World Championships. (Predict the four teams to WC2010) The Wild Card process started with 14 teams hoping for one of the four remaining spots; now it’s been whittled down to just eight basketball [...]

The FIBA Wild Cards will determine four teams’ fates for the 2010 World Championships of basketball. With a few days remaining before FIBA announces their selections, which countries do you think FIBA will select for the event in Turkey in 2010? Below are Interbasket’s top 11 contenders: Cameroon Dominican Republic Germany Great Britain Korea Lebanon Lithuania [...]

After leading Olympiacos with 19 fourth-quarter points in a comeback win against Entente Orleanaise on Thursday night, Linas Kleiza has come down with the Swine Flu. (Talk Euroleague Basketball in our forum) The virus knocked Kleiza out of commission for an undetermined amount of time. Kleiza is Olympiacos’ leading scorer with 18.3 points over the [...]

Sunday night’s game against the Mavericks was supposed to be a big night for Cleveland’s Žydrūnas Ilgauskas. The big center from Lithuania, already the franchise’s all-time leading rebounder and shot blocker, was about to play his 724th game as a Cleveland Cavalier. The Mavs game would be the game in which Ilgauskas would break the Cavs’ [...]

Tijani Umar, the President of the NBBF (Nigeria Basketball Federation) recently returned from Zurich, Switzerland after a meeting with FIBA World officials to chat about the FIBA wild cards for the 2010 World Championships. However, Umar’s meeting with FIBA officials did not make him very positive on Nigeria’s chances. While speaking with Ungar, FIBA hinted that [...]

Žydrūnas Ilgauskas has played all of his 625 NBA games with the Cleveland Cavs. He has started 586 of those games, including the last 534 games he has played in. However this season, the 7-3 center will likely be coming off the bench after Cleveland acquired Shaquille O’Neal in a trade with the Phoenix Suns. [...]

Who is 2009′s Mr. Eurobasket? Grown men (and some women) talking about the looks/attractiveness of Nikos Zisis of Greece (pictured below), Rudy Fernández of Spain, Robertas Javtokas of Lithuania, Engin Atsür of  Turkey, and other “good-looking” male participants in the Eurobasket Championships without unease or fear about being labeled “gay?” That’s what you can discuss [...]