With the NBA season a week away, NBA clubs are optimizing their rosters and many international players have been cut or signed this past month.

The Utah Jazz cut three players, including their second round pick Goran Suton.
The Houston Rockets let go of swingman Romel Beck of Mexico.
Aussie Nathan Jawai was traded from the Dallas Mavericks [...]

Romel Beck, a 6′8, 195lb guard/forward who has played with the Mexican National Team the last several years, has signed on with the Houston Rockets.
The  27-year old Beck will compete with Pops Mensah-Bonsu, and summer-league guards Will Conroy and Garrett Temple for the final roster spot.
The spot opened up when the Rockets decided against waiting [...]

After a loss to Puerto Rico, 81-66 in Mexico’s first game of the FIBA Americas Championships, there was bickering about that the teams leading scorer, Romel Beck, was being too selfish.
“There’s some unrest within the team,” Mexico’s head coach Arturo Guerrero admitted. “Beck started taking shots against five defensive players. That clearly bothered our guys.”
Hearing these complaints about his [...]

After holding a glimmer of hope that Eduardo Nájera may don the green and red for Mexico, that hope crashed when the NBA ruled that it wasn’t in their best interest.
It was announced today that the 10-year NBA veteran will not participate in this year’s FIBA Americas Championships.
Najera was unable to receive clearance from his [...]

Here we go again.
In another boxing match, a basketball game broke out between Mexico and Uruguay Saturday night when both teams competed in a preparation game for the 2009 FIBA Americas tournament.

(Discuss the Mexico-Uruguay fight in our forum)
Tensions came to a head when Mexico’s star player Romel Beck got into the face of Uruguayan guard Emilio Taboada after [...]

USA 113: Brazil 76
What was supposed to be the United State’s toughest test turned into another blowout. Team USA continued their dominance of group B by manhandling Brazil last night 113-76.
Brazil did hang tough for about one quarter and a half, but was eventually overwhelmed by Team USA’s offensive prowess and fantastic defense. [...]

USA 123: Canada 59 After demolishing the Virgin Islands 123-59 on Thursday, the United States used a balanced offensive attack and strong defense to rout Canada 113-63. Again, the Americans were led in scoring by Carmelo Anthony with 25 points and sharpshooter Michael Redd with 19 points (5 three pointers). Olu [...]