Spain used a near perfect fourth quarter to see off Slovenia 97-80 and book their place in the 5th place game at the 2010 FIBA World Championship. (Discuss Spain vs. Slovenia in our World Championships forum) They will take on Russia or Argentina in Sunday’s last classification game. Entering the final frame up 64-62, Sergio [...]

Katowice - The first day of the quarterfinals are here and no less than 15 former, current, and future NBA players will be participating in the game. (discuss the France – Spain quarterfinal) Spain features nine players with NBA affiliations, while France has six players with ties to the NBA. Everyone already knows the two stars, [...]

Łódź – Turkey held onto a 63-60 win over world champion Spain as Ersan İlyasova blocked Spanish guard Sergio Llull with on Spain’s penultimate possession. (Discuss the Turkey-Spain match in our forum) Down 61-60, Spain had a chance to win it with 13 seconds to play. The 6-2 Llull drove to the basket; attempted to [...]

Minnesota waiting on Rubio: After being drafted at #5, Ricky Rubio skipped Minnesota’s initial meet-and-greet with the media, speculation has the New York Knicks working behind the scenes to obtain Rubio.  Something has to give; Minnesota used three of their four picks in the 2009 NBA draft on guards, so look for something to happen [...]

We collected some Getty Images of the international players that were present at last night’s NBA Draft.  Hope you enjoy them.  Patrick Mills seems pretty happy despite doubling his position in several mock drafts, dropping to the 55th pick. Sorry, we couldn’t find any photos of Victor Claver, Sergio Lull, and Emir Preldzic.  All three players [...]

From the Congo to Israel to three players from Spain, there were fourteen international-born players selected in the 2009 NBA Draft. The fourteen players ended a sex-year slide in which fewer and fewer international players were chosen, from a record high of 21 international players chosen in 2003 to 2008, when there were just thirteen [...]