Mickael Pietrus came off the bench to score 18 points, as Orlando used an NBA finals record 63 percent shooting to defeat the Los Angeles Lakers 108-104. Pietrus shot 4-6 in the fourth and scored 10 of his 18 points in the final period. Those ten points included a crucial offensive putback dunk with 2:19 [...]

The Toronto Raptors are out to a 2-0 start with Jose Calderon as the starting point guard.  After the Raptors traded away TJ Ford this past summer, they all but handed the starting role to Calderon, and so far results are good.  Yeah, it’s two games into the season, but I like building it up, [...]

With Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan, Bruce Bowen and Marcus Camby being named to the NBA’s All-defensive first-team today, and no international players named to the second team, it got me wondering. What does an all-defensive team look like it, if it was solely comprised of all foreign-born NBA players? Keeping in mind that [...]

In the last few weeks, Mickael Pietrus has been flying high for the Golden State Warriors, winning eight out of eleven, and Pietrus has started six of those games. In that stretch of 11 games, the 6-7 French guard-forward from Guadeloupe has put up 11.8 points, 6.1 rebounds, 1.7 steals, 1.4 assists, and shooting 39% [...]

NBA Season Commences (International NBA Players Recap) – The NBA started it’s 2007-08 season last night with three games on the schedule. The San Antonio Spurs received their 06-07 championship rings and defeated the Greg Oden-less Portland Trailblazers 106-97. The Spurs international players were huge in the win; Frenchman Tony Parker scored 19 points, Manu [...]

With the start of the 2007-08 NBA season upon us, I’m sure David Stern has taken notice of a small but significant pattern from this off-season. I’m not talking about perennial Kobe Bryant drama or the KG trade, this involves names that aren’t all household names, but the direction of the moves are making the [...]

Sasha Pavlovic, the guard-forward who had a breakout year last season with the Cleveland Cavaliers, will head back to Europe if he and the Cavs do not come to an agreement. If Pavlovic leaves the NBA, he would join Greek star Vasillis Spanoulis back in Europe. Spanoulis was released by the San Antonio Spurs and [...]