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 [...]

During the 2008-09 NBA season, a rejuvenated Shaquille O’Neal moved up five spots on the NBA’s all-time scorers’ list. After scoring 1333 points, his highest total in four seasons, O’Neal is now #5 on the all-time list having surpassed Dominique Wilkins, Moses Malone, Elvin Hayes, Oscar Robertson, and international player Hakeem Olajuwon. What of International [...]

Just when Interbasket was getting all excited the Toronto Raptors and all the international players they had on their roster… Now comes this rumour that the Canadian NBA franchise is trading away Argentinian Carlos Delfino and Croatian backup point guard Roko Ukić to the Milwukee Bucks for Amir Johnson. If true, Toronto will no longer have [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

FIBA’s Olympic World Qualifying Tournament is coming to a close tomorrow and there are only four national teams remaining; Croatia, Germany, Greece and Puerto Rico, and only three of those four teams will make the Olympics. The four teams will play in semi-final action today, and the final game between the today’s losers semifinals will [...]

Today, the FIBA World Qualifying Tournament begins with 12 national teams from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania trying to grab one of the three remaining spots for the 2008 Beijing Olympics next month. Follow the intense action of every game, the heated battles, and all the upsets in our 2008 Olympic Qualifier Forum. [...]