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 […]
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 […]
Yao talks Sabonis, Strombergas, Spanoulis, and European Basketball
After two games in the CBA-Euroleague challenge, Yao Ming has averaged 27 points and 7 rebounds going 1-1 against Benetton Tamoil and CSKA Moscow. Yao Ming gave Euroleague.net his unique perspective about his experiences, thoughts and what he has learned […]
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 […]
News Around the World 10/10/2007
Ray Allen hopes NBA expands into Europe – I didn’t know Ray Allen spent a lot of time growing up in England and Germany “People all over the world are now watching basketball. People in the United States don’t realize […]
Anderson Varejao looking for $10m/season
There’s a good reason as to why the Cavs and Brazilian forward/center Anderson Varejao are having difficulties coming to terms on a new contract. It’s because Varejao and his agent are reportedly asking for around $10m/year. Now, if the numbers […]
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 […]
Vlade Divac Says Goodbye in Style
In a farewell ceremony held this past weekend in Belgrade, Vlade Divac closed-out his basketball career as only Divac could, with a huge three-day party. But it wasn’t only a farewell party, it was three days full of activity around […]
Sasha Pavlovic leaving Cavs and the NBA?
Sasha Pavlovic, the guard-forward who had a breakout year last season with the Cleveland Cavaliers, will head back to Europe if he and the Cavs do not come to an agreement. If Pavlovic leaves the NBA, he would join Greek […]
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 […]
