Three of the four Americas teams have punched their tickets to the 2010 World Championships to be held next year in Turkey. At an undefeated 7-0, Brazil has already earned a spot in the World Championships by dominating their competition, and are now looking for gold with a stacked Argentina and Puerto Rico are the [...]

I scoured some images from the FIBA Americas Championship and pulled out my favorite twenty photos featuring Carlos Arroyo, Esteban Batista, Francisco Garcia, Anderson Varejao, Omar Quintero, Luis Scola, Guillermo Diaz, and more. Photos are all courtesy of FIBA – Thanks FIBA!

San Juan, PR – Mexico and Uruguay, two teams that got into a bench-clearing fight leading up to the FIBA Americas, will face off again today. The match will kick off the fifth and final day of the preliminary round of the 2009 FIBA Americas tournament. Coming into the game, Mexico (1-2) and Uruguay (2-1) [...]

Event: 2009 Americas Championships Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico Discuss: Americas Championships Thread Info: The tournament will determine which four teams qualify for the 2010 FIBA World Championships of Basketball. The tournament will feature ten teams from Northern and Latin Americas: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The favorites coming into [...]

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 [...]

The Boston Celtics continue to fill the spots around their new trio of superstars Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen. On Thursday, they added Esteban Batista and Dahntay Jones to their training camp roster that will be touring Italy this month. Both signed non-guaranteed contracts. Esteban Batista had a fantastic performance in the recent [...]

Puerto Rico 97: Brazil 75 The answer to the question: What’s Up with Puerto Rico? may have been answered. Maybe they needed something to wake them up. Just yesterday, they were only two minutes away from being eliminated and leaving Las Vegas for good. Puerto Rico’s future depended on the outcome of the Argentina-Panama game [...]