Asvel Basket, a French basketball club, says that New York Knicks center and French patriot Ronny Turiaf will play for the team during the NBA lockout. Turiaf join fellow Frenchman Tony Parker, who is a part owner of Asvel and also has agreed to play for the club during the lockout. Turiaf told Asvel’s website [...]

Discuss the most valuable, disappointing players in Eurobasket 2011Juan Carlos Navarro led Spain to back-to-back EuroBasket titles, scoring 27 points on a night when four of his team-mates joined him in double figures as they knocked over France 98-85. As he has done throughout the tournament, Navarro once more led Spain to glory but perhaps [...]

How does the NBA lockout affect all the international basketball tournaments that are coming up and the players participating for their national teams? (Discuss the NBA Lockout) Interbasket received an email from FIBA explaining the impact of the NBA’s decision to lockout their players that includes comments from Patrick Baumann, FIBA Secretary General and IOC [...]

Tony Parker had 19 points and nine assists as the San Antonio Spurs beat the Golden State Warriors 111-94 and improved to 18-3, setting a new franchise record for best start to a season. (Discuss the NBA in our NBA basketball forum) Parker spearheaded a 16-0 first quarter run that allowed the home side to [...]

The almost 37-year old Steve Nash has been revitalized in the early season. Nash tallied 21 points and 20 assists in a Phoenix win against the the Sixers last night. Without Shaq holding down the offense, Nash is averaging 12.9 assists through 8 games and has had games of 14, 17, 20, and 20 assists, [...]

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 [...]

At the beginning of the NBA season last night, the league boasted 83 foreign-born players, from 37 different countries on opening day rosters. The 83 players ties the record for the most international players set in 2006-07. The Milwaukee Bucks’ fifteen player-roster (both active and inactive) features a league-high seven international players. The Bucks’ roster has Aussie [...]