Luol Deng and Great Britain won’t know until the middle of March if they will have an automatic spot at the London Games. On the weekend of March 12-13, FIBA will announce at their Central Board meeting in Lyon, France, if the British teams will be granted automatic qualification for London 2012. The Chicago Bulls [...]

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 [...]

This week’s quick roundup of the player performances around the world during the last few days. This week includes discussion about Aleksandr Marić’s monster month, Dirk Nowitzki to the 2010 World Championships of basketball, Tyreke Evans and the Sacramento Kings’ amazing comeback over the Chicago Bulls and more… The Sacramento Kings found themselves down 33 points, [...]

Interbasket’s quick roundup of the international NBA player performances during the last few days in the NBA.. This week we’ll discuss Luol Deng doing work, injured international players in Golden State, Pau Gasol‘s golden return, and Hasheem Thabeet‘s very rough NBA start. Discuss the NBA in our forum. The unspectacular Luol Deng just gets the work done [...]

On a slow news day, we thought it would be nice to list out the top 15 international scorers in the NBA through 11/06/2009. The list is certainly worth looking at, but obviously it’s not definitive as the most games any player has played has been five. Definitely seeing some surprises on the list. 1. [...]

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 [...]

Jamie Vanderbeken has turned down the chance to represent Canada, the home of his birth and the land in which he was brought up, to play for Great Britain. The 21-year-old center, who plays in the NCAA for Iowa State, qualifies to suit up for Britain through his Scottish grandmother and hopes to represent his adopted country at [...]