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Iran repeats as Asia Champions, beats down China 70-52

Posted by Stuart Leung on 16 Aug 2009 at 9:10 am under Asia, Asiabasket, China, Iran, Jordan

Iran successfully defended their Asia Champions crown last night, dropping favored-China in a laughable 70-52 win. Led by Memphis Grizzly center Hamed Haddadi‘s 19 points and 17 rebounds, Iran dominated the Chinese in the first two quarters; outscoring their opponents by 11 in the first quarter and by six in the second. The Iranians took [...]

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Olympics Day One Recap: Lithuania defeats Argentina on Kleiza three; Spain, USA, Croatia win

Posted by admin on 10 Aug 2008 at 3:37 pm under Argentina, Carlos Morais, China, Chris Kaman, Dirk Nowitzki, Germany, Greece, Iran, José Calderón, Lebron James, Linas Kleiza, Lithuania, Liu Wei, Luis Scola, Manu Ginóbili, Olympics, Pau Gasol, Ramūnas Šiškauskas, Rudy Fernández, Sun Yue, Uncategorized, Vasileios Spanoulis, Viktor Khryapa, Yao Ming, Zoran Planinic, angola, australia, carlos delfino, croatia, eduardo mingas, kobe bryant, spain, usa, wang zhizhi, yi jianlian, Šarūnas Jasikevičius

Day one of Olympic Basketball has finished with Russia, Germany, Spain, Lithuania, Croatia, and the USA getting their first wins. Russia 71 : Iran 49 (Russia-Iran Boxscore) Despite the 71-49 score, Russia didn’t have quite as easy a win as expected, though a late run in the game made for the final margin against feisty [...]

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2008 Olympics Basketball Preview: Group B

Posted by Stuart Leung on 07 Aug 2008 at 5:31 pm under Carlos Almeida, Carlos Morais, Chris Kaman, Dirk Nowitzki, Dwight Howard, Greece, Jason Kidd, Jorge Garbajosa, Jose Manual Calderon, Juan Carlos Navarro, Lebron James, Liu Wei, Olympics, Pau Gasol, Ricky Rubio, Rudy Fernández, Uncategorized, Yao Ming, atrick Femerling, carmelo anthony, eduardo mingas, joaquim gomes, kobe bryant, olimpio cipriano, spain, usa, wang zhizhi, yi jianlian

With a few days left before Olympic basketball begins, Interbasket is previewing the twelve national teams participating in the tournament. We reviewed the six teams in Group A on Tuesday, and we’ll be reviewing Group B today. (Click here for Olympic Basketball Group A Preview). With the United States, Spain and Greece all in Group [...]