Manu Ginóbili was supposed to come into the 2009-10 NBA season with a renewed vigor for the game after spending the entire summer away from basketball. Instead, the 6-6 superstar shooting guard for the San Antonio Spurs is lacking confidence and not playing his game. “I’m lacking a lot of stuff, mainly confidence,” he said. [...]

It hasn’t been a great week for international players in the NBA, as Manu Ginobili, Andrew Bogut and Ronny Turiaf will miss time with injuries. Here’s a Saturday roundup of the last few days in the NBA: According to the San Antonio Express-News, Manu Ginóbili has a groin injury that will likely force the 6-6 Argentinian [...]

The almost 37-year old Steve Nash has been revitalized in the early season. Nash tallied 21 points and 20 assists in a Phoenix win against the the Sixers last night. Without Shaq holding down the offense, Nash is averaging 12.9 assists through 8 games and has had games of 14, 17, 20, and 20 assists, [...]

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. [...]

Some reverberations after Manu Ginóbili smacked the life out of a stray bat that found its way into the Alamodome/AT&T center on Saturday night. After knocking the winged-mammal to the ground, Manu picked it up, carried it off the court and handed it to a team official. Discuss the Bat Smackdown. Edit: The bat is [...]

Manu is back! During last night’s game between the SAn Antonio Spurs and the Sacramento Kings, a stray bat found is way into the Alamodome. The bat was flying around the arena around the first quarter of the game. When the game was stopped, the winged-mammal flew by a frightened Dejuan Blair, but then made [...]

A few days ago, we looked at five NBA teams with the least amount of international diversity. From a look at the comments, it definitely hit a nerve with many readers. The overall feeling was that international diversity didn’t really matter; that Interbasket was creating some form of controversy out of nothing. (Discuss the NBA’s [...]