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 […]
Rebraca Retires: 10 NBA Players from Around the World (12/19)
This week we pay tribute to Zeljko Rebraca. We also look at the Yao’s anger, dissect Steve Nash’s comments, Diaw’s disappointing season, Nene’s back, the Brezec and Herrmann trade, under-rated Fabricio Oberto, Juan Carlos Navarro finding his stride, and plead […]
2007 Interbasket Award Nominations are Here!
It’s that time of year for the IBN awards to be handed out, but first we need players to be nominated. This year we’ve added a couple categories, and we’re looking for the best players from 2007, and only accomplishments […]
Fadi El-Khatib’s Visa Cancelled
Fadi El-Khatib’s Visa was refused by the Belgium embassy, possibly putting an end to Cherkasi-Mavpi’s participation in the 2008 FIBA Eurocup Games (at least for now), the top men’s basketball tournament run by FIBA Europe. Cherkas-Mavpi, in a move of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ten NBA Players from Around the World (11/28)
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 11/22 – 11/28/2007) We start with some big news out of Toronto. Spanish small […]
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 (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 […]
Ten Reasons to Watch the Euroleague
Not sure when this article was written but it’s a great primer/introduction for those basketball fans unfamiliar with the Euroleague (ahem, Americans). Ian Whittell from ESPN lists his top ten reasons why one should watch the Euroleague or at the […]
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 […]
News Around the World 11/07/2007: International NBA Player Report
Around the World: International NBA Player Report With a week or so into the NBA season behind us, interbasket is here to report on the international players making news in the NBA. Luis Scola hasn’t shown much with the Houston […]
Internationals Represented in FoxSport’s Top-50 Players
One of my favorite sports journalists (besides Mitch Albom and Jack McCallum) is Mike Kahn at Foxsports, he always has well-written and insightful articles. His weekly Ten Things about the NBA is a must-read for me. Needless to say, I […]
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 […]
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 […]
Euroleague champs Panathinaikos winless in Texas
Euroleague champions Panathinaikos went into Texas on October 11th and 13th, and got demolished by the Houston Rockets and the San Antonio Spurs. The Greek club got blown out in both pre-season matches held in the lonestar state; 107-71 by […]
An American’s First Taste of European Basketball
Welcome to Turkey: An American’s first taste of European Basketball American Evin Demirel attends the Efes Pilsen-Minnesota Timberwolves game at NBA Europe Live 2007 in Istanbul Growing up in the US, since early adolescence I have followed the NBA with […]
Bostjan Nachbar Scores 35 in Preseason Win
Bostjan Nachbar scored 35 points and hit the two winning free throws in the New Jersey Net’s tight win over the Philadelphia 76ers last night. Nachbar hit his last two free throws with 8.8 seconds left in overtime and 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 […]
