In my previous post, I wrote about the important roles international players will have on this year’s NBA Playoffs — particularly the western conference. Each series has now played at least 2 games, and we’re going to assess the most […]
Author: Stuart Leung
Impact International Players in the 2008 NBA Playoffs
With the NBA playoffs about to begin this weekend, Ibn would be remiss not to talk about the unprecedented competitive Western Conference this year and the roles that international players are having on every playoff-bound team. It’s just crazy to […]
A Little on Philippines Basketball History
Fiba has a short article about basketball history in the Philippines and how the small Asian country used to be the dominant player, not only in their region, but was one of the basketball powers of their day. “There was […]
Linas Kleiza | SLAM Report
This month’s SLAM Magazine report is featured in the “In your face” section and focuses on do-it-all Denver Nugget’s reserve power forward from Lithuania – Linas Kleiza. In Your Face: Security Blanket The Denver Nuggets made no moves at the […]
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 […]
Yes there is Basketball in Egypt, Iran, and Syria
We’ve had a lot of positive traction on our forum from some under-represented regions as we’ve recently received some great members from Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, and Syria. Great Egytian and Iranian Basketball Threads First off, I wanted to recognize a […]
Kobe is Youngest, but not the Fastest NBA player to 20,000 points
Kobe Bryant surpassed the 20,000 point mark the other night making him the youngest player to meet that milestone at 29 years, 122 days. Update: Kobe is youngest to 30,000, still not the fastest His mark beat Wilt Chamberlain by […]
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 […]
Basketball’s Globalization will breakup NBA’s Monopoly
With the start of the 2007-08 NBA season upon us, I’m sure David Stern has taken notice of a small but significant pattern from this off-season. I’m not talking about perennial Kobe Bryant drama or the KG trade, this involves […]
Fadi El-Khatib Dominates First Game in Europe
Fadi El-Khatib, aka the Tiger, dominated in his first game for Cherkazki Mavpi, a club that plays in the national league in Ukraine. Khatib scored 37 points, pulled down 12 rebounds, passsed for 5 assists and gathered 4 steals as […]
Kirilenko Wants out of Utah
The last couple weeks have been good to Andrei Kirilenko. After all, his Russian National Team won the 2007 Eurobasket gold. And not only that, Kirilenko was named the MVP of the tournament after he averaged 18.0 ppg, 8.6 rpg, […]
FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament
Who will host the FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament? With all the regional championships completed and nine teams set for next year’s Olympic games, three berths remain for teams vying for Beijing. And those three remaining spots will be determined […]
Darko’s Post-Game Threats Draws 10,000€ Fine (Video)
Wow, Darko was mad. Darko was really MAD. Ok, we get it Darko, you were mad. Immediately after Serbia’s loss to Greece 68-67 on day two of Eurobasket, an angry Darko Milicic went on a furious tirade against the three […]
Israel Shocks Serbia 87-83, Advances to Phase Two
Day three of Eurobasket 2007 saw several upsets that changed the face of the next round: Israel 87: Serbia 83 (game thread) Israel shocked Serbia today behind an excellent performance from Yaniv Green. Israel was the 16th and final team […]
EuroBasket 2007: Lakovic hits Game-Winner Against Italy
EuroBasket 2007 commenced yesterday, here’s a quick recap of all the games… Slovenia 69: Italy 68 The game of the night had to be Slovenia-Italy, as the two teams changed leads four times in the last 30 seconds. The Italians […]
EuroBasket 2007 Mini-Preview
Eurobasket 2007 is upon us. Sixteen European National teams are vying to be the king of Europe and more importantly, for two spots to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. With Israel winning the final wild card spot on Friday against […]
Two More Olympic Berths Set
With the wins by Argentina (over Brazil) and the United States (over Puerto Rico) in the 2007 Tournament of the Americas, two more berths to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing have now been determined. Argentina and the United States have […]
Happy Birthday Interbasket
In honor of Interbasket’s fourth anniversary, I wanted to do something special. And what you are reading right now is the new and much improved Interbasket homepage. If I may say so myself, it’s a marked improvement over any of […]
Canada Shocks Argentina as Preparations Continue
Preparation for Eurobasket and the Tournament of the Americas continued as National Teams from all over the world competed in friendly matches and regional cups. In the Tuto Marchand Continental Cup, Brazil captured the cup by defeating the previously-unbeaten Canadian […]
Juan Carlos Navarro Joins Pau Gasol in NBA
After weeks of rumors and speculation, ACB Superstar Juan Carlos Navarro will join his fellow Spanaird Pau Gasol in not only the NBA, but on the same team. The Washington Wizards, whom drafted Navarro in 2002 with the 40th pick […]
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