A couple days after news broke that Ricky Rubio would be skipping out on the NBA to spend two more seasons in Spain, the 19-year old point guard was introduced by his new team, FC Barcelona, yesterday at a press conference. “Going to Minnesota would have just complicated my life a lot. It was a [...]

Five international players were included in the top-ten NBA Draft busts in the last decade created by the Ball Don’t Lie blog at Yahoo Sports. And you really can’t argue that Yi Jianlian, Yaroslav Korolev, Rafael Araújo, Nikoloz Tskitishvili, and Darko Miličić, have been very very very disappointing. 10. Yi Jianlian, Milwaukee Bucks (2007, 6th) 9. Kedrick Brown, [...]

The 2009 NBA Draft has kept the Spanish league busy this summer, particularly club team DKV Joventut; Ricky Rubio‘s decision to leave the Spanish club after buyout negotiations was reported a couple days ago, Christian Eyenga has decided to remain with the Spanish team to hone his skills, and Ersan İlyasova may be returning to the NBA. [...]

Jonas Jerebko is an athletic and aggressive 6-10 power forward from Sweden and is likely to become the first Swede to step foot on an NBA court come next season. Selected with the 39th pick in this year’s NBA draft, Jerebko had to sit out the first two summer league practices before receiving clearance from [...]

Serge Ibaka, who was drafted in the 2008 NBA draft and was named the MVP of the 2008 Nike Eurocamp, was signed by the Oklahoma City Thunder for the 2009-2010 season.

Patrick Mills of Australia, one of the Portland Trailblzers’ 2009 NBA draft picks, broke his foot during an NBA summer league practice and will be forced to sit out the entire summer league. The former St. Mary’s college star fractured the fifth metatarsal in his right foot.  The 20-year old Mills was the 55th pick [...]

It sounds like Hedo Türkoğlu, the 30-year old point-forward that led the Orlando Magic into the NBA Finals, has come to an agreement to join the Portland Trailblazers in principle. The contract is reportedly for five years and $50 million dollars.  Portland has accomplished their primary mission; they’ve been chasing free agent Türkoğlu since the [...]