Title: Asia Championships of Basketball Location: Tianjin, China Official Website: http://china2009.fiba.com/ Description: The 2009 FIBA Asia Championships of basketball (discuss) will be held in Tianjin, China from August 6-16, 2009 with 16 teams divided into four groups. The sixteen teams competing for the gold and a spot in the 2010 World Championships are hosts China, [...]

NBA.com just released their top ten plays by international NBA players during the 2008-09 season featuring Marcin Gortat‘s left hand smash on Samuel Dalembert, Steve Nash abusing Anderson Varejão off the dribble, Yao Ming‘s flip shot over Marc Gasol, Hedo Türkoğlu blocking Kobe Bryant, Manu Ginóbili, Andrei Kirilenko, Rudy Fernández flying through the air, and [...]

With the news that Yao Ming will miss the entire 2009-10 NBA season and Dikembe Mutombo officially retiring the other day, the Houston Rockets have brought in Aussie big man and Euroleague star David Andersen to help fill the hole they have at center. “I’ve spoken with the coach and the general manager (Daryl Morey) [...]

Yao’s foot sponsors Trevor Ariza signing –  After the Rockets discovered the severity of Yao’s injury, they immediately applied for a “disabled player exception” and that was approved by the league.  The NBA agreed that it was very unlikely that Yao Ming would make a return this season, and freed up anough money to bring in free-agent Trevor [...]

Is Yao Ming‘s basketball career over? Ok, maybe we’re jumping the gun with that title, but according to Rockets team physician Tom Clanton, it’s a definite possibility (discuss). “At this point, the injury has the potential for (Yao) missing this next season and could be career threatening.” Clanton told the Houston Chronicle. Hairline Fracture not healing Official [...]

Phoenix Suns trade SHAQ for Ben Wallace and Sasha Pavlovic (discuss).  Shaquille O’Neal and LeBron James TOGETHER…  in Cleveland.   Kind of anti-climactic, no?  Apparently, Shaq discovered that he was traded via Twitter (@THE_REAL_SHAQ) Retweeting Kareem (@kaj33) – My top 10 Intl’ players in the league & why http://bit.ly/GsBl2 Update: Kareem answers why Yao Ming wasn’t [...]

At 7’9′ tall (236cm), Sun Mingming is the world’s second tallest man and the tallest professional basketball player ever. Many of you may have heard of Sun, but rarely anyone has ever seen the 7-9 Chinese giant play basketball. It’s much more likely to have seen him in his guest appearance on Rush Hour 3 [...]