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!

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 [...]

Greivis Vásquez is joining team Venezuela today as the team prepares for the upcoming Americas Championship that begins late August. Venezuela looks to finish in the top four of the tournament so as they qualify for the 2010 World Championships, which is another step towards the 2012 Olympics in London. The 22-year old Vásquez recently [...]

Today was the last day that fence-sitting underclassman had to decide whether they wanted to remain in this year’s NBA draft or to pull out. And two key international point guards, Patrick Mills and Greivis Vasquez, made their decisions today. This  year’s draft is point-guard heavy; already including ballhandling prospects Ricky Rubio and Brandon Jennings, [...]

When we made our “Top Ten International Players to Watch during March Madness” list out, we made a huge mistake by not including USC’s Daniel Hackett in our initial list.  Going into this weekend’s final four, we’ve watched the games and done the  research, in order to followup on our list and re-ranking the players [...]

With the 64 teams matched up, March Madness is less than 12 hours away.  And with that, Interbasket has collected the names of the top ten international players in this year’s field (discuss). It’s a shame that the St. Mary’s Gaels and the Viriginia Tech Hokies didn’t make the tournament, that forced us to leave [...]

Greivis Vasquez has been rewarded once again for his historic performance this past Saturday; Vasquez has been honored with ACC player of the Week. The 6-6 guard from Caracas, Venezuela led his Maryland squad over #3 North Carolina 88-85 in overtime.  He registered a spectacular triple-double (35 points (13-24 FG), 11 rebounds, 10 assists) including [...]