2009 has been a good year for Marcin Gortat. And it sounds as it will be getting better. Word is Gortat will be able to represent his country, Poland, as the hosts of the 2009 European Basketball Championships. The tournament is being held in seven cities in Poland – Gdańsk, Poznan, Warszawa, Wroclaw, Bydgoszcz, Katowice, and Łódź, [...]

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 [...]

This year’s Eurobasket – European men’s basketball championship will take place in Poland from the 7th till the 20th of September. It will be hosted by seven cities – Gdańsk, Poznan, Warszawa, Wroclaw, Bydgoszcz, Lodz and Katowice. The lineups will include such players as Marko Jaric, Marc Gasol, Chris Kaman, Marcin Gortat or Hidayet Turkoglu. [...]

Interbasket was lucky enough to score a short interview with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer. The 7-2 center’s basketball career spanned 30 years where he left a mark at every level.  Kareem scored nearly 40,000 points in his NBA career (38,387 to be exact) and took several NBA records with him when he retired [...]

It’s been a dream season for Hedo Turkoglu (discuss). Sure his stats are down, in fact Turkoglu’s stats have dropped in every major category from last season: points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, FG%, FT% and 3PT%. Last season Turkoglu averaged career-highs in points (19.5), rebounds (5.7), assists (5.0) and was named the NBA’s Most Improved Player. [...]