Two-time West Asian champions, three-time Asia’s runner-up, and after participating in the last two Fiba World Championship (2002 and 2006), something is amiss with Lebanon… and to me, that is the Olympic Games! Despite being the favourites in last year’s […]
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Bassel Bawji Profile | Interbasket Player Profiles
Bassel Bawji (Baze-Sull Bah-Gee) is a basketball prospect playing in the United States. Bassel was born in Beirut, Lebanon and has represented Lebanon on their under-18 National Team. He is a 6-7, 225lb power forward that plays a physical game […]
2008 Olympic Basketball Forum & Message Board
Interested in 2008 Olympics Basketball Discussion? Click Here. Interbasket always has you covered with our international basketball forum. And with the 2008 Olympics in Beijing right around the corner, we have created a special, standalone forum for all discussions surrounding […]
Sasha Vujacic | SLAM Report
This month’s SLAM Magazine report is featured in the “In your face” section and focuses on the seemingly ubiquitous Sasha Vujacic, whom really made a name for himself this season, and especially in the 2008 Playoffs. In Your Face: Teacher’s […]
San Beda vs. UE (June 14) | 2008 Fil-Oil Tournament Finals
The 2008 Fil-Oil Tournament Finals were held Saturday, June 14, 2008, at an arena in San Juan between the San Beda College (SBC) Red Lions and the University of the East (UE) Red Warriors. It turned out to be a […]
Ateneo vs. Mapua (June 8) | 2008 Nike Summer League Tournament
The collegiate preseason tournament competitions are heating up near the end of the eliminations, and have finally started to schedule games during the weekends in the afternoons in alternate venues. I again was able to catch the game between the […]
2008 Fil-Oil Tournament Games: De La Salle vs. Ateneo (June 7, 2008)
This past weekend, I was fortunate enough to attend the 2008 Fil-Oil Tournament. Below you’ll find a recap of the De La Salle and Ateneo game from June 7th as well as some observations about both teams’ future. De La […]
NZ Great Phil Jones retires from International Play
I know this is coming a few days late, but I definitely think this needs a mention: After 14 years of representing New Zealand in international play, star shooting-guard Phil Jones has decided to retire, but the left-handed, 34-year old […]
Philippine Pre-Season Tournament Observations (May 21-25, 2008)
Reading through some of the news about the ongoing pre-UAAP/NCAA season tournaments in the country, I wanted to write a little something concerning the Fil-Oil Tournament and the Nike Summer League. My intention is not to report all the events […]
2008 Olympic Groups determined for Men’s Basketball
Fiba and the CBA (Chinese Basketball Association) got together in Beijing on Friday and hosted the official Olympic group drawings. Though all the participants haven’t been determined yet, the teams that have already been qualified were placed into two groups […]
Greece will Host Final Olympic-Qualifying Tournament
Athens beat out San Juan, Puerto Rico and will be the hosts for the pre-Olympic qualifying tournament that will be held July 14-20, 2008. The participating teams are the also-rans from this year’s regional championships. The final three Olympic spots […]
Utah International: 10 NBA Players from Around the World (12/05)
This week we look at the Utah Jazz’s international players, Andris Biedrins, Tony Parker without Tim Duncan, Anderson Varejao’s holdout, Andrew Bogut’s career thus far, discuss Hedo or Memo, and introduce Kyrylo Fesenko. Every Wednesday during the NBA season, interbasket […]
News Around the World 10/31/2007: Belinelli, Scola Debut
NBA Season Commences (International NBA Players Recap) – The NBA started it’s 2007-08 season last night with three games on the schedule. The San Antonio Spurs received their 06-07 championship rings and defeated the Greg Oden-less Portland Trailblazers 106-97. The […]
Complete List of Euroleague-NBA Games
With so many pre-season games occurring between the NBA and Euroleague teams this month, we opened a thread in our forum creating a list of every NBA-FIBA games that have been played since 1978 when Maccabi Tel-Aviv defeated the Washington […]
Slava Medvedenko Considering Retirement
Ukrainian star and former NBA player Stanislav (Slava) Medvedenko is considering retiring from basketball. According to gpu-ua.info, the 28-year old Ukrainian cites the intense pain in his back from an injured herniated disc injury suffered in 2006 as the cause […]
Unicaja Malaga Defeats Memphis Grizzlies in NBA Euroleague Live 2007
Unicaja Malaga 102: Memphis Grizzlies 99 In a friendly game played in Malaga, Spain during NBA-Euroleague Live Tour 2007, Unicaja-Malaga defeated the Memphis Grizzlies. Unicaja Malaga used Croatian guard Davor Kus’s 20 points and American Marcus Haslip’s 18 points and […]
NBA Europe Live 2007 Commences in Istanbul, Rome.
The NBA Europe Live 2007 tour begins this Saturday as four NBA teams and five European teams will play several matches over the next five days. Starting on October 6th, Efes Pilsen will take on the Kevin Garnett-less Minnesota Timberwolves […]
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 […]
Celtics add Uruguayan center Esteban Batista
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 […]
Jasikevicius Ready to Sign with PAO?
The Golden State Warriors and Sarunas Jasikevicius have officially parted ways after the Warriors waived Saras earlier today. This ends the Lithuanian guard’s short-tenure with Golden State after recently making his trade demands public. Although Saras has insinuated that he […]
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