After a hugely-disappointing showing in the Eurobasket tournament, the head coach of basketball-crazed Lithuania, Ramūnas Butautas, stepped down after their fifth and final loss. At 0-5, Lithuania finished last in Group F and was eliminated two days before the final day of matches. Even with the excuse that leaders Šarūnas Jasikevičius. Ramūnas Šiškauskas and Rimantas Kaukenas weren’t on [...]

In today’s pic of the day, Pau Gasol takes on two Lithuanian defenders as if he was Godzilla stomping through Tokyo, unaware of the chaos and destruction he is causing below, as Lithuanian defenders scurry for safety… Gasol scored 19 points, grabbed 8 rebounds, and blocked three shots in 24 minutes in a key game [...]

Great Britain, Latvia, and Lithuania are in do-or-die situations on the last day of Eurobasket’s preliminary round after all three teams lost their first two games. Now they must win their third and final game today in order to have a chance in advancing to the next round. (Discuss Eurobasket Day Three) In group play, [...]

It was just announced that Dirk Nowitzki will not participate in this year’s Eurobasket tournament. The loss of the 7-0 NBA all-star forward severely hampers Germany‘s chances in obtaining a spot in the 2010 World Championships. The owner of Nowitzki’s NBA team, Mark Cuban, would not allow Nowitzki to take part in the championship, said the German [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The 2009 FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Men are going on right now in Auckland, New Zealand. The tournament runs from July 02, 2009 – July 12, 2009. Discuss the 2009 U19 World Championships The 9th annual World Championships for U19 Men features 16 U19 national teams from around the world. The coutries participating in the 2009 FIBA-sanctioned [...]