The Toronto Raptors, already the third most-international roster in the NBA last season, just added to their global diversity. The Raptors picked up 6-5 Italian Marco Belinelli to a roster that already included six international players. Toronto traded 31-year old journeyman Devean George and “cash considerations” to the Golden State Warriors for Belinelli. The 23-year old [...]

Just as the Great Britain squad was announced, NBA star Luol Deng pulled out of September’s Eurobasket tournament. “It’s a very tough decision not being able to play but it was just a tough year last year with my injury,” Deng said. “The fracture of my leg was such a serious injury that I need [...]

Great Britain has apparently started to build their squad for EuroBasket after Unicaja Malaga revealed that their center Robert Archibald had made the cut as the first player names to their 12-man roster. The official squad announcement is not expected until the end of July but Unicaja appear to have the inside track on at [...]

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 [...]

* British national Pops Mensah-Bonsu had a solid game in his fourth outing with the Toronto Raptors. Mensah-Bonsu scored 21 points (5-10 shooting) in 21 minutes and grabbed 8 rebounds in a 110-87 drubbing of Indiana this Sunday. The Raptors wore green in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. Mensah-Bonsu was recently released by the San [...]

The severely-undermanned Thunder continues to surprise.  OKC have won 5 of their last 6 games with Kevin Durant out with an injury, thanks in large part to Nenad Krstic’s 15.2 points, 7 rebounds, and 1.2 blocks during the run.  Oklahoma City is also doing it without the second leading scorer, Jeff Green. Dirk Nowitzki scores [...]