Just images of some of the international players, and other players of interest, from the 2009 NBA Summer League. Check out the pic of Blake Griffin’s jam and the Japanese National Team that participated in this year’s summer league. They played against the New Orleans Hornets in Las Vegas. The team photo does not include [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
NBA Draft night is upon us and Interbasket wants to keep you informed. We recently did a quick, unscientific roundup of several mock drafts on the ‘net to determine the top-12 international players you should know about in this year’s draft, and where they’re likely to be selected. The consensus #1 pick is NBA-ready power [...]
Though I can’t stand Sasha Vujacic’s dirty tactics and annoying on-court antics, I never tire of “The Machine” videos created by the guys over at Lakers-fan.com. The latest video is alright, a lot of the same broken English and south park animation, but what makes this video special (at least to me) is the sampling [...]
Erazem Lorbek, the 6-10 Slovenian center for CSKA Moscow has been named Euroleague Basketball’s MVP for the months of March and April. The 25-year old former Rising Star Trophy winner led CSKA in either scoring, index rating or both in each of their games, save one, in helping the defending Euroleague champions to a 5-0 [...]
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