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Mickael Pietrus: Flying High in the Bay Area

Mickael Pietrus: Flying High in the Bay Area

In the last few weeks, Mickael Pietrus has been flying high for the Golden State Warriors, winning eight out of eleven, and Pietrus has started six of those games. In that stretch of 11 games, the 6-7 French guard-forward from […]

Dirk Nowitzki becomes Dallas Maverick’s All-Time Leading Scorer

Dirk Nowitzki scored 34 points last night and passed Rolando Blackman, whom had 16443 points, as the Dallas Maverick’s all-time leading scorer. Dirk accomplished the feat in 743 games while Blackman did it in 865 games. Dirk Nowitzki joins Hakeem […]

Yao Ming out for the NBA Season, what of the Olympics?

Yao Ming out for the NBA Season, what of the Olympics?

Not only is it disheartening for the Houston Rockets that Yao Ming suffered a season-ending stress fracture in his foot and will miss the rest of the 2007-08 NBA season in the midst of their 11-game winning streak, but he […]

Jason Kidd Back in Dallas

Jason Kidd is apparently headed back to Dallas, where he started his career almost 14 years ago. The star power and talent continues to shift to the Western Conference. With Pau Gasol being sent to the Lakers in exchange for […]

Top-Ten NBA Jerseys Sold in Europe

Top-Ten NBA Jerseys Sold in Europe

I was watching an NBA game and the broadcasters put up a shot listing the top ten NBA jerseys sold in Europe.  I was shocked to see some of the names on the list (Iverson, Diaw), and more importantly, the […]

Gasol to the Lakers: 10 NBA Players from Around the World

Gasol to the Lakers: 10 NBA Players from Around the World

Every Wednesday during the NBA season, Interbasket takes a closer look at ten international NBA players that has caught our eye. (This week is for period 01/30/2008- 02/05/2008) Pau Gasol + Kobe + Bynum Shakes Up the West After months […]

Ginobili gets the Last Laugh in Phoenix

Ginobili gets the Last Laugh in Phoenix

Every time Manu Ginobili touched the ball last night in the Spur’s game against the Phoenix Suns, he was booed with fervor by the hometown Phoenix fans.  They booed every single time he touched the ball, they cheered when he […]

Go East, Young Man: 2008 NBA All-Star Reserves

Go East, Young Man: 2008 NBA All-Star Reserves

In this year’s NBA Western Conference, it’s a huge honor just to be nominated for the 2008 All-star game. Really, that’s how good the field of candidates is this year. Honestly, one could put-together a second team in the west […]

Almost All-Stars 2008: 10 NBA Players from Around the World (01/29)

Almost All-Stars 2008: 10 NBA Players from Around the World (01/29)

Every Wednesday during the NBA season, Interbasket takes a closer look at ten international NBA players that has caught our eye. (This week is for period 01/23/2008- 01/29/2008) Cleveland Hurting The Cleveland Cavs are playing great since the first of […]

Thanks to the fans, Manu still has a chance…

For the first time in a loooooong time the fans’ choices for the NBA All-Star starters did not include 2-3 undeserving players. By and large, all the players were probable all-stars, made possible by Allen Iverson surpassing Tracy McGrady in […]

Mini-Update: 10 NBA Players from Around the World (01/23

Every Wednesday during the NBA season, Interbasket takes a closer look at ten international NBA players that has caught our eye. (This week is for period 01/16/2008- 01/22/2008) So the three of the top-four scorers off the bench are international […]

10 NBA Players from Around the World (01/09)

10 NBA Players from Around the World (01/09)

Every Wednesday during the NBA season, Interbasket takes a closer look at ten international NBA players that has caught our eyes, our good eye or our stinkeye. (This week is for period 01/02/2008- 01/08/2008) This week Andrew Bogut and Yi […]

Happy New Years: 12 NBA Players from Around the World (01/02)

Every Wednesday (almost cough cough) during the NBA season, interbasket takes a closer look at ten international NBA players that has caught our eye. (This week is for period 12/19/2007- 01/01/2008) This week we see another European having troubles with […]

Sleepless in Seattle: 10 NBA Players from Around the World (12/11)

Sleepless in Seattle: 10 NBA Players from Around the World (12/11)

This week we look at the Anderson Varejao’s return to Cleveland, Manu’s amazing week, Tony Parker without Tim Duncan, international baby-Bulls, Marco Belinelli says no to the NBDL, Jose Calderon’s consistency, and the Seattle Sonics’ Mickael Gelabale, Johan Petro and […]

Around the NBA: 10 Players from Around the World (11/21)

Around the NBA: 10 Players from Around the World (11/21)

Every Wednesday during the NBA season, interbasket takes a closer look at ten international NBA players that has caught our eye. This week is for period 11/15-11/21/2007. After three years of gathering splinters on the bench (and two championship rings), […]

News Around the World 11/14/2007: NBA International Report

News Around the World 11/14/2007: NBA International Report

News Around the World 11/14/2007: NBA International Report (interbasket.net) — Yao Ming leads us off this week as he was named NBA player of the week for November 12th (Tracy McGrady won the honor the week previous) as Yao averaged […]

Video: Manu Slams over Yao Ming

Video of NBA.com’s top play of the week for November 09, 2007: Manu Ginobili steals the ball off a bad pass from Yao Ming, and then adds insult to injury by dunking over the 7-5 Chinese center for the Houston […]