With the Atlanta Hawks making a stunning leap to secure the No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft, French prospect Alexandre Sarr has emerged as the consensus #1 pick for the 2024 NBA Draft. Nine out of ten mock drafts […]
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NBA All-World Team: 12 NBA Players Who Could Make Up the World All-Star Team
San Francisco is set to host the NBA All-Star Game in 2025. The announcement, made by the NBA on Monday November 6th, revealed that the Chase Center in San Francisco will be the venue for the game on Feb. 16, […]
Printable World Cup Schedule for 2022 FIFA tournament
The 2022 FIFA World Cup schedule has been announced. Even though there are a few teams with work to do, the group stage matchups are now set. We’ll have several months to project who will make it out of the […]
No longer stigmatized, Europeans can just be ‘players’ in today’s NBA
It used to be that international players were something to be gawked at; to be put under the magnifying glass when they were on the court. Europeans were stereotyped as slow, plodding, flopping and robotic players and anytime they let […]
Can Antetokounmpo follow Gasol, Parker and Nowitzki as next European NBA champion and superstar?
European basketball has produced some outstanding NBA talent over the years and Milwaukee Bucks look to have the next face on the European “Mt. Rushmore” in Giannis Antetokounmpo. The Greek forward can play multiple positions, has arms for days which […]
Will France shine as best Euro team in 2016 Summer Olympics?
Is “Les Bleus” the best European basketball team in Rio De Janiero? Halftime” (CC BY-SA 2.0) by manumilou If truth be told, France should already have their place at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro fully booked. But the fact of […]
Watch Lithuania vs. Spain, France vs. Serbia in Eurobasket Finals
When it comes down to it, there’s something special about teams with a history of performing. Both Spain and Lithuania stumbled a few times during the 2015 Eurobasket, but when they both faced teams that were undefeated, the two historical […]
Watch Eurobasket Live: Serbia vs. Lithuania, Czech Republic vs. Latvia
Eurobasket 2015 is wrapping up. Friday features Latvia vs. Czech Republic in the important seventh/eighth place game for the final invite to next year’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament. Follow the 2015 Eurobasket games in our forum. That game will be the […]
How to watch Spain vs. France during Eurobasket 2015
The recent battles between France and Spain has been referred to as the “El classico” (The Classic) of European basketball. The last match of the day is a meetup of two titans. Yes, it’s Spain vs. France once again (watch […]
The Complete Guide to National Basketball Team Nicknames
[survey][prem] With the continental championships in full swing, dozens of basketball national teams are vying for a berth to the Olympics. If you follow international basketball, you’ll quickly notice a pattern that countries have both official or an unofficial nicknames for their […]
Watch Eurobasket Online: Serbia vs. Spain, France and Croatia
The 1st day of Eurobasket 2015 starts with three games on the schedule including important games featuring Serbia vs. Spain, France, Italy, Croatia, and Slovenia. Follow along with all the Eurobasket games in our forum and find out where you can […]
Eurobasket 2015: Everything you need to know about the tournament
With the final warm up games coming to an end, Eurobasket 2015 is set to begin in less than a week. This is the 39th edition of the FIBA European championship. This year it’ll be played on September 5–20 2015 across […]
Eurobasket 2015 is like ‘NBA Playoffs’ with more than 50 NBA players
With Eurobasket 2015 set to begin in less than a week, the largest and most competitive regional basketball championship leading up to the Rio Olympics in 2016 features a long list of big European names familiar to NBA fans. (Join […]
Spain Ousted: Is this Pau Gasol’s Final FIBA World Cup?
With the hosts bowing out of the FIBA World Cup on Wednesday evening against France, did Pau Gasol’s chance of lifting the trophy for a second time also vanish from sight? At the grand old age of 34, Gasol is certainly […]
Watch Rudy Gobert Block Pau Gasol in France’s Win Over Spain
Rudy Gobert had a coming out party in France’s big win over Spain in the FIBA World Cup. He didn’t light it up on the offensive end though both his baskets came on big dunks in the first half. The […]
France vs. Spain Boxscore: France Stuns Spain in FIBA World Cup 65-52
It’s not that France is a bad team, it’s just that Spain is that good. France was a 17 point underdog going into the game, and instead they pulled out a double-digit win with great passing, outside shots, and interior […]
FIBA Basketball World Cup Schedule 2014
Tomorrow is day one of the 2014 FIBA World Cup and we can expect interesting matchups from day one. USA and Spain, the top two favorites to win the tournament, will not have a big challenge on this day and […]
Tony Parker joins Gasol, Dragic, Kleiza on All-Tournament Team
No surprise that Tony Parker was named MVP of the Eurobasket tournament, he was the indispensable to France’s offense. He headlined a team that featured three other NBA players in Goran Dragic of Slovenia, Linas Kleiza of Lithuania, and Marc […]
Basketball: France wins European Title Over Lithuania 80-66
After coming so close in 2005 with a bronze, and a silver in 2011, France has finally won their first ever Eurobasket title, defeating Lithuania 80-66 in the championship game. (Discuss France-Lithuania Online). Down three points after one quarter, France blitzed Lithuania […]
Watch Lithuania, France collide in the Eurobasket Championship
After nearly three weeks of play, Eurobasket has been whittled down from 24 teams to just two national teams. France and Lithuania are the only teams standing and they’ll meet in the Eurobasket championship game on Sunday, September 22 (Watch […]
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