NEW YORK (Olympics) - The United States have added Oklahoma City star James Harden and recently crowned NCAA Champion Anthony Davis of the Kentucky Wildcats to their list of finalists for the country’s Olympic squad. The Americans decided to make the move with five finalists having been ruled out for London. Chauncey Billups, Derrick Rose, ...

LONDON (Olympics) - There isn't much pressure on a team that's making an Olympic bow like Tunisia. The national team finished top of the podium at last year's Afrobasket, but remembering how they finished last the 24-team FIBA World Championship in 2010, expectations are tempered. Maybe that's why coach Adel Tlatli sounded excited when told that his ...

NEUCHATEL, Switzerland (FIBA/CIES) - The International Centre for the Study of Sport (CIES), in collaboration with FIBA, on Wednesday published the first-ever International Basketball Migration Report, providing an insight into the migratory trends of the sport. Compiling a wide variety of transfer data, the report includes the 6,392 international ...

PARIS (Olympic Qualifying Tournament) - France have announced the names of the 16 players expected to show up for the team's first training camp of the year in Bourges. Les Bleues will be preparing for the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Ankara, where they will attempt to claim one of five spots for the London Games. The players of Bourges and ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (FIBA) - FIBA’s first Central Board meeting of 2012 took place this past weekend, with a number of major moves made and a lot of key information shared. The Central Board attributed the hosting duties for the 2013 FIBA U19 World Championship for Men (27 June-7 July) and Women (18-28 July) to the Czech Republic and Lithuania ...

SAN ANTONIO (NBA/Olympics) – For more than 10 years now, the San Antonio Spurs have been one of the most consistent franchises in the NBA. Aside from last year’s shock elimination in the first round of the playoffs against the Memphis Grizzlies, the Texas-based team has been a symbol of competitiveness, having won four titles (1999, ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (FIBA U17 World Championship) – Defending champions United States may be the heavy favorites going into the FIBA 2012 U17 World Championship, but head coach Don Showalter expects his U.S. team to face loads of competition – from within. The Basketball Developmental National Team – as the U17 team is called ...

SAN ANTONIO (NBA/Olympics) - Tony Parker took a couple of days off at the end of the regular season with San Antonio having already locked up first place in the NBA's Western Conference and he watched as teammate Patty Mills served as the conductor of the Spurs’ orchestra. Now that the play-offs are underway, though, Parker is back on the floor and ...

AUCKLAND (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women) - Jillian Harmon hadn’t even bounced a ball in the professional game when she stepped out for New Zealand at the Olympic Games in Beijing.   Four years later, she is determined to recapture that special feeling by leading her team to success at the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament (OQT) ...

SEOUL (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament) - Korea won’t have the most celebrated of the 12 teams at the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament, yet they better not be overlooked. As they showed four years ago in Athens, the perimeter-oriented side can be extremely awkward opponents. A heavily-favored Slovenia only beat Korea, 76-88, and then Canada ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Olympics) - It's too early to know how the women’s Olympic basketball tournament will play out. There are still five places at the Games that are up for grabs. The 12-team FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women will held in Ankara, Turkey, 25 June to 1 July. What the world does know is that in Group A, the all-conquering ...

PRAGUE (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women) - The Czech Republic had a significant absentee in 2011 when they played at the EuroBasket Women in Poland. The 2010 FIBA World Championship MVP Hana Horakova took the summer off and the Czechs, without their most important player, had to settle for a fourth-place finish. While they missed out on ...

AMMAN (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament) - Sam Daghles is one of the headline names in the 20-man Jordan preliminary squad for this summer. The country will attempt to make history and reach the Olympic Basketball Tournament for the first time. Jordan nearly upset hosts China in the Final of the 2011 FIBA Asia Championship in Wuhan, a victory that ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Olympics) - The fun has already started with the 2012 Olympic basketball tournaments. At the draw in Brazil on Monday, mouthwatering clashes in the Preliminary Round were assured. The star-laden sides of the United States, France and Argentina are set to meet each other in a Group A that also includes African champions Tunisia and two ...

MELBOURNE (Olympics) - Australia have named a 25-strong preliminary squad for the Olympics. Coach Brett Brown has several players in the side from the Beijing Games, including point guard Pat Mills of the San Antonio Spurs. St Mary's Gaels playmaker Matt Dellavedova, who was in the Australian team that won last year's FIBA Oceania Championship, is one ...

LUANDA (Olympics) - Afrobasket Women champions Angola could show up at the Olympics with some alterations to the squad that won the continental title last year in Mali. National team coach Anibal Moreira is working with a 17-strong preliminary squad and 14 of those players will travel to the United States next month before moving on to China for a ...

BUENOS AIRES (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women) - Macarena Rosset believes Argentina’s first training camp was the ideal launch pad for the national side as it tries reach the London Games. The national squad’s first week of training for the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament (OQT) for Women was at the CeNard (Centro Nacional de ...

LAS VEGAS (Olympics) - The season-ending ACL injury suffered by Derrick Rose that ended the Chicago Bulls star's chances of playing at the London Games will be discussed on Monday and Tuesday in Las Vegas when USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo meets with the national team coach Mike Krzyzewski. Rose’s injury happened late in the Bulls' home ...

GENEVA (FIBA U17 World Championship/FIBA U17 World Championship for Women) - The official event websites for the 2012 U17 FIBA World Championships have been launched. kaunas2012.fiba.com is your source for all the latest news and information about the FIBA U17 World Championship that will take place in Kaunas, Lithuania (29 June-8 July). Meanwhile, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Olympics) – Brazil have a wealth of great women’s basketball players from the past. And one of these greats believes that a top youngster in the country is ripe for a bright future. Two-time Olympic medalist and 1994 world champion Janeth Arcain predicts that 19-year-old Damiris Dantas will become a star for the Brazilian ...

NEW YORK (Olympics) - The United States have added Oklahoma City star James Harden and recently crowned NCAA Champion Anthony Davis of the Kentucky Wildcats to their list of finalists for the country’s Olympic squad. The Americans decided to make the move with five finalists having been ruled out for London. Chauncey Billups, Derrick Rose, ...

LONDON (Olympics) - There isn't much pressure on a team that's making an Olympic bow like Tunisia. The national team finished top of the podium at last year's Afrobasket, but remembering how they finished last the 24-team FIBA World Championship in 2010, expectations are tempered. Maybe that's why coach Adel Tlatli sounded excited when told that his ...

NEUCHATEL, Switzerland (FIBA/CIES) - The International Centre for the Study of Sport (CIES), in collaboration with FIBA, on Wednesday published the first-ever International Basketball Migration Report, providing an insight into the migratory trends of the sport. Compiling a wide variety of transfer data, the report includes the 6,392 international ...

PARIS (Olympic Qualifying Tournament) - France have announced the names of the 16 players expected to show up for the team's first training camp of the year in Bourges. Les Bleues will be preparing for the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Ankara, where they will attempt to claim one of five spots for the London Games. The players of Bourges and ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (FIBA) - FIBA’s first Central Board meeting of 2012 took place this past weekend, with a number of major moves made and a lot of key information shared. The Central Board attributed the hosting duties for the 2013 FIBA U19 World Championship for Men (27 June-7 July) and Women (18-28 July) to the Czech Republic and Lithuania ...

SAN ANTONIO (NBA/Olympics) – For more than 10 years now, the San Antonio Spurs have been one of the most consistent franchises in the NBA. Aside from last year’s shock elimination in the first round of the playoffs against the Memphis Grizzlies, the Texas-based team has been a symbol of competitiveness, having won four titles (1999, ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (FIBA U17 World Championship) – Defending champions United States may be the heavy favorites going into the FIBA 2012 U17 World Championship, but head coach Don Showalter expects his U.S. team to face loads of competition – from within. The Basketball Developmental National Team – as the U17 team is called ...

SAN ANTONIO (NBA/Olympics) - Tony Parker took a couple of days off at the end of the regular season with San Antonio having already locked up first place in the NBA's Western Conference and he watched as teammate Patty Mills served as the conductor of the Spurs’ orchestra. Now that the play-offs are underway, though, Parker is back on the floor and ...

AUCKLAND (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women) - Jillian Harmon hadn’t even bounced a ball in the professional game when she stepped out for New Zealand at the Olympic Games in Beijing.   Four years later, she is determined to recapture that special feeling by leading her team to success at the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament (OQT) ...

SEOUL (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament) - Korea won’t have the most celebrated of the 12 teams at the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament, yet they better not be overlooked. As they showed four years ago in Athens, the perimeter-oriented side can be extremely awkward opponents. A heavily-favored Slovenia only beat Korea, 76-88, and then Canada ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Olympics) - It's too early to know how the women’s Olympic basketball tournament will play out. There are still five places at the Games that are up for grabs. The 12-team FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women will held in Ankara, Turkey, 25 June to 1 July. What the world does know is that in Group A, the all-conquering ...

PRAGUE (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women) - The Czech Republic had a significant absentee in 2011 when they played at the EuroBasket Women in Poland. The 2010 FIBA World Championship MVP Hana Horakova took the summer off and the Czechs, without their most important player, had to settle for a fourth-place finish. While they missed out on ...

AMMAN (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament) - Sam Daghles is one of the headline names in the 20-man Jordan preliminary squad for this summer. The country will attempt to make history and reach the Olympic Basketball Tournament for the first time. Jordan nearly upset hosts China in the Final of the 2011 FIBA Asia Championship in Wuhan, a victory that ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Olympics) - The fun has already started with the 2012 Olympic basketball tournaments. At the draw in Brazil on Monday, mouthwatering clashes in the Preliminary Round were assured. The star-laden sides of the United States, France and Argentina are set to meet each other in a Group A that also includes African champions Tunisia and two ...

MELBOURNE (Olympics) - Australia have named a 25-strong preliminary squad for the Olympics. Coach Brett Brown has several players in the side from the Beijing Games, including point guard Pat Mills of the San Antonio Spurs. St Mary's Gaels playmaker Matt Dellavedova, who was in the Australian team that won last year's FIBA Oceania Championship, is one ...

LUANDA (Olympics) - Afrobasket Women champions Angola could show up at the Olympics with some alterations to the squad that won the continental title last year in Mali. National team coach Anibal Moreira is working with a 17-strong preliminary squad and 14 of those players will travel to the United States next month before moving on to China for a ...

BUENOS AIRES (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women) - Macarena Rosset believes Argentina’s first training camp was the ideal launch pad for the national side as it tries reach the London Games. The national squad’s first week of training for the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament (OQT) for Women was at the CeNard (Centro Nacional de ...

LAS VEGAS (Olympics) - The season-ending ACL injury suffered by Derrick Rose that ended the Chicago Bulls star's chances of playing at the London Games will be discussed on Monday and Tuesday in Las Vegas when USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo meets with the national team coach Mike Krzyzewski. Rose’s injury happened late in the Bulls' home ...

GENEVA (FIBA U17 World Championship/FIBA U17 World Championship for Women) - The official event websites for the 2012 U17 FIBA World Championships have been launched. kaunas2012.fiba.com is your source for all the latest news and information about the FIBA U17 World Championship that will take place in Kaunas, Lithuania (29 June-8 July). Meanwhile, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Olympics) – Brazil have a wealth of great women’s basketball players from the past. And one of these greats believes that a top youngster in the country is ripe for a bright future. Two-time Olympic medalist and 1994 world champion Janeth Arcain predicts that 19-year-old Damiris Dantas will become a star for the Brazilian ...

NEW YORK (Olympics) - The United States have added Oklahoma City star James Harden and recently crowned NCAA Champion Anthony Davis of the Kentucky Wildcats to their list of finalists for the country’s Olympic squad. The Americans decided to make the move with five finalists having been ruled out for London. Chauncey Billups, Derrick Rose, ...

LONDON (Olympics) - There isn't much pressure on a team that's making an Olympic bow like Tunisia. The national team finished top of the podium at last year's Afrobasket, but remembering how they finished last the 24-team FIBA World Championship in 2010, expectations are tempered. Maybe that's why coach Adel Tlatli sounded excited when told that his ...

NEUCHATEL, Switzerland (FIBA/CIES) - The International Centre for the Study of Sport (CIES), in collaboration with FIBA, on Wednesday published the first-ever International Basketball Migration Report, providing an insight into the migratory trends of the sport. Compiling a wide variety of transfer data, the report includes the 6,392 international ...

PARIS (Olympic Qualifying Tournament) - France have announced the names of the 16 players expected to show up for the team's first training camp of the year in Bourges. Les Bleues will be preparing for the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Ankara, where they will attempt to claim one of five spots for the London Games. The players of Bourges and ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (FIBA) - FIBA’s first Central Board meeting of 2012 took place this past weekend, with a number of major moves made and a lot of key information shared. The Central Board attributed the hosting duties for the 2013 FIBA U19 World Championship for Men (27 June-7 July) and Women (18-28 July) to the Czech Republic and Lithuania ...

SAN ANTONIO (NBA/Olympics) – For more than 10 years now, the San Antonio Spurs have been one of the most consistent franchises in the NBA. Aside from last year’s shock elimination in the first round of the playoffs against the Memphis Grizzlies, the Texas-based team has been a symbol of competitiveness, having won four titles (1999, ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (FIBA U17 World Championship) – Defending champions United States may be the heavy favorites going into the FIBA 2012 U17 World Championship, but head coach Don Showalter expects his U.S. team to face loads of competition – from within. The Basketball Developmental National Team – as the U17 team is called ...

SAN ANTONIO (NBA/Olympics) - Tony Parker took a couple of days off at the end of the regular season with San Antonio having already locked up first place in the NBA's Western Conference and he watched as teammate Patty Mills served as the conductor of the Spurs’ orchestra. Now that the play-offs are underway, though, Parker is back on the floor and ...

AUCKLAND (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women) - Jillian Harmon hadn’t even bounced a ball in the professional game when she stepped out for New Zealand at the Olympic Games in Beijing.   Four years later, she is determined to recapture that special feeling by leading her team to success at the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament (OQT) ...

SEOUL (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament) - Korea won’t have the most celebrated of the 12 teams at the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament, yet they better not be overlooked. As they showed four years ago in Athens, the perimeter-oriented side can be extremely awkward opponents. A heavily-favored Slovenia only beat Korea, 76-88, and then Canada ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Olympics) - It's too early to know how the women’s Olympic basketball tournament will play out. There are still five places at the Games that are up for grabs. The 12-team FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women will held in Ankara, Turkey, 25 June to 1 July. What the world does know is that in Group A, the all-conquering ...

PRAGUE (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women) - The Czech Republic had a significant absentee in 2011 when they played at the EuroBasket Women in Poland. The 2010 FIBA World Championship MVP Hana Horakova took the summer off and the Czechs, without their most important player, had to settle for a fourth-place finish. While they missed out on ...

AMMAN (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament) - Sam Daghles is one of the headline names in the 20-man Jordan preliminary squad for this summer. The country will attempt to make history and reach the Olympic Basketball Tournament for the first time. Jordan nearly upset hosts China in the Final of the 2011 FIBA Asia Championship in Wuhan, a victory that ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Olympics) - The fun has already started with the 2012 Olympic basketball tournaments. At the draw in Brazil on Monday, mouthwatering clashes in the Preliminary Round were assured. The star-laden sides of the United States, France and Argentina are set to meet each other in a Group A that also includes African champions Tunisia and two ...

MELBOURNE (Olympics) - Australia have named a 25-strong preliminary squad for the Olympics. Coach Brett Brown has several players in the side from the Beijing Games, including point guard Pat Mills of the San Antonio Spurs. St Mary's Gaels playmaker Matt Dellavedova, who was in the Australian team that won last year's FIBA Oceania Championship, is one ...

LUANDA (Olympics) - Afrobasket Women champions Angola could show up at the Olympics with some alterations to the squad that won the continental title last year in Mali. National team coach Anibal Moreira is working with a 17-strong preliminary squad and 14 of those players will travel to the United States next month before moving on to China for a ...

BUENOS AIRES (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women) - Macarena Rosset believes Argentina’s first training camp was the ideal launch pad for the national side as it tries reach the London Games. The national squad’s first week of training for the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament (OQT) for Women was at the CeNard (Centro Nacional de ...

LAS VEGAS (Olympics) - The season-ending ACL injury suffered by Derrick Rose that ended the Chicago Bulls star's chances of playing at the London Games will be discussed on Monday and Tuesday in Las Vegas when USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo meets with the national team coach Mike Krzyzewski. Rose’s injury happened late in the Bulls' home ...

GENEVA (FIBA U17 World Championship/FIBA U17 World Championship for Women) - The official event websites for the 2012 U17 FIBA World Championships have been launched. kaunas2012.fiba.com is your source for all the latest news and information about the FIBA U17 World Championship that will take place in Kaunas, Lithuania (29 June-8 July). Meanwhile, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Olympics) – Brazil have a wealth of great women’s basketball players from the past. And one of these greats believes that a top youngster in the country is ripe for a bright future. Two-time Olympic medalist and 1994 world champion Janeth Arcain predicts that 19-year-old Damiris Dantas will become a star for the Brazilian ...

NEW YORK (Olympics) - The United States have added Oklahoma City star James Harden and recently crowned NCAA Champion Anthony Davis of the Kentucky Wildcats to their list of finalists for the country’s Olympic squad. The Americans decided to make the move with five finalists having been ruled out for London. Chauncey Billups, Derrick Rose, ...

LONDON (Olympics) - There isn't much pressure on a team that's making an Olympic bow like Tunisia. The national team finished top of the podium at last year's Afrobasket, but remembering how they finished last the 24-team FIBA World Championship in 2010, expectations are tempered. Maybe that's why coach Adel Tlatli sounded excited when told that his ...

NEUCHATEL, Switzerland (FIBA/CIES) - The International Centre for the Study of Sport (CIES), in collaboration with FIBA, on Wednesday published the first-ever International Basketball Migration Report, providing an insight into the migratory trends of the sport. Compiling a wide variety of transfer data, the report includes the 6,392 international ...

PARIS (Olympic Qualifying Tournament) - France have announced the names of the 16 players expected to show up for the team's first training camp of the year in Bourges. Les Bleues will be preparing for the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Ankara, where they will attempt to claim one of five spots for the London Games. The players of Bourges and ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (FIBA) - FIBA’s first Central Board meeting of 2012 took place this past weekend, with a number of major moves made and a lot of key information shared. The Central Board attributed the hosting duties for the 2013 FIBA U19 World Championship for Men (27 June-7 July) and Women (18-28 July) to the Czech Republic and Lithuania ...

SAN ANTONIO (NBA/Olympics) – For more than 10 years now, the San Antonio Spurs have been one of the most consistent franchises in the NBA. Aside from last year’s shock elimination in the first round of the playoffs against the Memphis Grizzlies, the Texas-based team has been a symbol of competitiveness, having won four titles (1999, ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (FIBA U17 World Championship) – Defending champions United States may be the heavy favorites going into the FIBA 2012 U17 World Championship, but head coach Don Showalter expects his U.S. team to face loads of competition – from within. The Basketball Developmental National Team – as the U17 team is called ...

SAN ANTONIO (NBA/Olympics) - Tony Parker took a couple of days off at the end of the regular season with San Antonio having already locked up first place in the NBA's Western Conference and he watched as teammate Patty Mills served as the conductor of the Spurs’ orchestra. Now that the play-offs are underway, though, Parker is back on the floor and ...

AUCKLAND (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women) - Jillian Harmon hadn’t even bounced a ball in the professional game when she stepped out for New Zealand at the Olympic Games in Beijing.   Four years later, she is determined to recapture that special feeling by leading her team to success at the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament (OQT) ...

SEOUL (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament) - Korea won’t have the most celebrated of the 12 teams at the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament, yet they better not be overlooked. As they showed four years ago in Athens, the perimeter-oriented side can be extremely awkward opponents. A heavily-favored Slovenia only beat Korea, 76-88, and then Canada ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Olympics) - It's too early to know how the women’s Olympic basketball tournament will play out. There are still five places at the Games that are up for grabs. The 12-team FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women will held in Ankara, Turkey, 25 June to 1 July. What the world does know is that in Group A, the all-conquering ...

PRAGUE (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women) - The Czech Republic had a significant absentee in 2011 when they played at the EuroBasket Women in Poland. The 2010 FIBA World Championship MVP Hana Horakova took the summer off and the Czechs, without their most important player, had to settle for a fourth-place finish. While they missed out on ...

AMMAN (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament) - Sam Daghles is one of the headline names in the 20-man Jordan preliminary squad for this summer. The country will attempt to make history and reach the Olympic Basketball Tournament for the first time. Jordan nearly upset hosts China in the Final of the 2011 FIBA Asia Championship in Wuhan, a victory that ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Olympics) - The fun has already started with the 2012 Olympic basketball tournaments. At the draw in Brazil on Monday, mouthwatering clashes in the Preliminary Round were assured. The star-laden sides of the United States, France and Argentina are set to meet each other in a Group A that also includes African champions Tunisia and two ...

MELBOURNE (Olympics) - Australia have named a 25-strong preliminary squad for the Olympics. Coach Brett Brown has several players in the side from the Beijing Games, including point guard Pat Mills of the San Antonio Spurs. St Mary's Gaels playmaker Matt Dellavedova, who was in the Australian team that won last year's FIBA Oceania Championship, is one ...

LUANDA (Olympics) - Afrobasket Women champions Angola could show up at the Olympics with some alterations to the squad that won the continental title last year in Mali. National team coach Anibal Moreira is working with a 17-strong preliminary squad and 14 of those players will travel to the United States next month before moving on to China for a ...

BUENOS AIRES (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women) - Macarena Rosset believes Argentina’s first training camp was the ideal launch pad for the national side as it tries reach the London Games. The national squad’s first week of training for the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament (OQT) for Women was at the CeNard (Centro Nacional de ...

LAS VEGAS (Olympics) - The season-ending ACL injury suffered by Derrick Rose that ended the Chicago Bulls star's chances of playing at the London Games will be discussed on Monday and Tuesday in Las Vegas when USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo meets with the national team coach Mike Krzyzewski. Rose’s injury happened late in the Bulls' home ...

GENEVA (FIBA U17 World Championship/FIBA U17 World Championship for Women) - The official event websites for the 2012 U17 FIBA World Championships have been launched. kaunas2012.fiba.com is your source for all the latest news and information about the FIBA U17 World Championship that will take place in Kaunas, Lithuania (29 June-8 July). Meanwhile, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Olympics) – Brazil have a wealth of great women’s basketball players from the past. And one of these greats believes that a top youngster in the country is ripe for a bright future. Two-time Olympic medalist and 1994 world champion Janeth Arcain predicts that 19-year-old Damiris Dantas will become a star for the Brazilian ...

NEW YORK (Olympics) - The United States have added Oklahoma City star James Harden and recently crowned NCAA Champion Anthony Davis of the Kentucky Wildcats to their list of finalists for the country’s Olympic squad. The Americans decided to make the move with five finalists having been ruled out for London. Chauncey Billups, Derrick Rose, ...

LONDON (Olympics) - There isn't much pressure on a team that's making an Olympic bow like Tunisia. The national team finished top of the podium at last year's Afrobasket, but remembering how they finished last the 24-team FIBA World Championship in 2010, expectations are tempered. Maybe that's why coach Adel Tlatli sounded excited when told that his ...

NEUCHATEL, Switzerland (FIBA/CIES) - The International Centre for the Study of Sport (CIES), in collaboration with FIBA, on Wednesday published the first-ever International Basketball Migration Report, providing an insight into the migratory trends of the sport. Compiling a wide variety of transfer data, the report includes the 6,392 international ...

PARIS (Olympic Qualifying Tournament) - France have announced the names of the 16 players expected to show up for the team's first training camp of the year in Bourges. Les Bleues will be preparing for the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Ankara, where they will attempt to claim one of five spots for the London Games. The players of Bourges and ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (FIBA) - FIBA’s first Central Board meeting of 2012 took place this past weekend, with a number of major moves made and a lot of key information shared. The Central Board attributed the hosting duties for the 2013 FIBA U19 World Championship for Men (27 June-7 July) and Women (18-28 July) to the Czech Republic and Lithuania ...

SAN ANTONIO (NBA/Olympics) – For more than 10 years now, the San Antonio Spurs have been one of the most consistent franchises in the NBA. Aside from last year’s shock elimination in the first round of the playoffs against the Memphis Grizzlies, the Texas-based team has been a symbol of competitiveness, having won four titles (1999, ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (FIBA U17 World Championship) – Defending champions United States may be the heavy favorites going into the FIBA 2012 U17 World Championship, but head coach Don Showalter expects his U.S. team to face loads of competition – from within. The Basketball Developmental National Team – as the U17 team is called ...

SAN ANTONIO (NBA/Olympics) - Tony Parker took a couple of days off at the end of the regular season with San Antonio having already locked up first place in the NBA's Western Conference and he watched as teammate Patty Mills served as the conductor of the Spurs’ orchestra. Now that the play-offs are underway, though, Parker is back on the floor and ...

AUCKLAND (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women) - Jillian Harmon hadn’t even bounced a ball in the professional game when she stepped out for New Zealand at the Olympic Games in Beijing.   Four years later, she is determined to recapture that special feeling by leading her team to success at the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament (OQT) ...

SEOUL (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament) - Korea won’t have the most celebrated of the 12 teams at the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament, yet they better not be overlooked. As they showed four years ago in Athens, the perimeter-oriented side can be extremely awkward opponents. A heavily-favored Slovenia only beat Korea, 76-88, and then Canada ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Olympics) - It's too early to know how the women’s Olympic basketball tournament will play out. There are still five places at the Games that are up for grabs. The 12-team FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women will held in Ankara, Turkey, 25 June to 1 July. What the world does know is that in Group A, the all-conquering ...

PRAGUE (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women) - The Czech Republic had a significant absentee in 2011 when they played at the EuroBasket Women in Poland. The 2010 FIBA World Championship MVP Hana Horakova took the summer off and the Czechs, without their most important player, had to settle for a fourth-place finish. While they missed out on ...

AMMAN (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament) - Sam Daghles is one of the headline names in the 20-man Jordan preliminary squad for this summer. The country will attempt to make history and reach the Olympic Basketball Tournament for the first time. Jordan nearly upset hosts China in the Final of the 2011 FIBA Asia Championship in Wuhan, a victory that ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Olympics) - The fun has already started with the 2012 Olympic basketball tournaments. At the draw in Brazil on Monday, mouthwatering clashes in the Preliminary Round were assured. The star-laden sides of the United States, France and Argentina are set to meet each other in a Group A that also includes African champions Tunisia and two ...

MELBOURNE (Olympics) - Australia have named a 25-strong preliminary squad for the Olympics. Coach Brett Brown has several players in the side from the Beijing Games, including point guard Pat Mills of the San Antonio Spurs. St Mary's Gaels playmaker Matt Dellavedova, who was in the Australian team that won last year's FIBA Oceania Championship, is one ...

LUANDA (Olympics) - Afrobasket Women champions Angola could show up at the Olympics with some alterations to the squad that won the continental title last year in Mali. National team coach Anibal Moreira is working with a 17-strong preliminary squad and 14 of those players will travel to the United States next month before moving on to China for a ...

BUENOS AIRES (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women) - Macarena Rosset believes Argentina’s first training camp was the ideal launch pad for the national side as it tries reach the London Games. The national squad’s first week of training for the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament (OQT) for Women was at the CeNard (Centro Nacional de ...

LAS VEGAS (Olympics) - The season-ending ACL injury suffered by Derrick Rose that ended the Chicago Bulls star's chances of playing at the London Games will be discussed on Monday and Tuesday in Las Vegas when USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo meets with the national team coach Mike Krzyzewski. Rose’s injury happened late in the Bulls' home ...

GENEVA (FIBA U17 World Championship/FIBA U17 World Championship for Women) - The official event websites for the 2012 U17 FIBA World Championships have been launched. kaunas2012.fiba.com is your source for all the latest news and information about the FIBA U17 World Championship that will take place in Kaunas, Lithuania (29 June-8 July). Meanwhile, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Olympics) – Brazil have a wealth of great women’s basketball players from the past. And one of these greats believes that a top youngster in the country is ripe for a bright future. Two-time Olympic medalist and 1994 world champion Janeth Arcain predicts that 19-year-old Damiris Dantas will become a star for the Brazilian ...

NEW YORK (Olympics) - The United States have added Oklahoma City star James Harden and recently crowned NCAA Champion Anthony Davis of the Kentucky Wildcats to their list of finalists for the country’s Olympic squad. The Americans decided to make the move with five finalists having been ruled out for London. Chauncey Billups, Derrick Rose, ...

LONDON (Olympics) - There isn't much pressure on a team that's making an Olympic bow like Tunisia. The national team finished top of the podium at last year's Afrobasket, but remembering how they finished last the 24-team FIBA World Championship in 2010, expectations are tempered. Maybe that's why coach Adel Tlatli sounded excited when told that his ...

NEUCHATEL, Switzerland (FIBA/CIES) - The International Centre for the Study of Sport (CIES), in collaboration with FIBA, on Wednesday published the first-ever International Basketball Migration Report, providing an insight into the migratory trends of the sport. Compiling a wide variety of transfer data, the report includes the 6,392 international ...

PARIS (Olympic Qualifying Tournament) - France have announced the names of the 16 players expected to show up for the team's first training camp of the year in Bourges. Les Bleues will be preparing for the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Ankara, where they will attempt to claim one of five spots for the London Games. The players of Bourges and ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (FIBA) - FIBA’s first Central Board meeting of 2012 took place this past weekend, with a number of major moves made and a lot of key information shared. The Central Board attributed the hosting duties for the 2013 FIBA U19 World Championship for Men (27 June-7 July) and Women (18-28 July) to the Czech Republic and Lithuania ...

SAN ANTONIO (NBA/Olympics) – For more than 10 years now, the San Antonio Spurs have been one of the most consistent franchises in the NBA. Aside from last year’s shock elimination in the first round of the playoffs against the Memphis Grizzlies, the Texas-based team has been a symbol of competitiveness, having won four titles (1999, ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (FIBA U17 World Championship) – Defending champions United States may be the heavy favorites going into the FIBA 2012 U17 World Championship, but head coach Don Showalter expects his U.S. team to face loads of competition – from within. The Basketball Developmental National Team – as the U17 team is called ...

SAN ANTONIO (NBA/Olympics) - Tony Parker took a couple of days off at the end of the regular season with San Antonio having already locked up first place in the NBA's Western Conference and he watched as teammate Patty Mills served as the conductor of the Spurs’ orchestra. Now that the play-offs are underway, though, Parker is back on the floor and ...

AUCKLAND (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women) - Jillian Harmon hadn’t even bounced a ball in the professional game when she stepped out for New Zealand at the Olympic Games in Beijing.   Four years later, she is determined to recapture that special feeling by leading her team to success at the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament (OQT) ...

SEOUL (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament) - Korea won’t have the most celebrated of the 12 teams at the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament, yet they better not be overlooked. As they showed four years ago in Athens, the perimeter-oriented side can be extremely awkward opponents. A heavily-favored Slovenia only beat Korea, 76-88, and then Canada ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Olympics) - It's too early to know how the women’s Olympic basketball tournament will play out. There are still five places at the Games that are up for grabs. The 12-team FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women will held in Ankara, Turkey, 25 June to 1 July. What the world does know is that in Group A, the all-conquering ...

PRAGUE (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women) - The Czech Republic had a significant absentee in 2011 when they played at the EuroBasket Women in Poland. The 2010 FIBA World Championship MVP Hana Horakova took the summer off and the Czechs, without their most important player, had to settle for a fourth-place finish. While they missed out on ...

AMMAN (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament) - Sam Daghles is one of the headline names in the 20-man Jordan preliminary squad for this summer. The country will attempt to make history and reach the Olympic Basketball Tournament for the first time. Jordan nearly upset hosts China in the Final of the 2011 FIBA Asia Championship in Wuhan, a victory that ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Olympics) - The fun has already started with the 2012 Olympic basketball tournaments. At the draw in Brazil on Monday, mouthwatering clashes in the Preliminary Round were assured. The star-laden sides of the United States, France and Argentina are set to meet each other in a Group A that also includes African champions Tunisia and two ...

MELBOURNE (Olympics) - Australia have named a 25-strong preliminary squad for the Olympics. Coach Brett Brown has several players in the side from the Beijing Games, including point guard Pat Mills of the San Antonio Spurs. St Mary's Gaels playmaker Matt Dellavedova, who was in the Australian team that won last year's FIBA Oceania Championship, is one ...

LUANDA (Olympics) - Afrobasket Women champions Angola could show up at the Olympics with some alterations to the squad that won the continental title last year in Mali. National team coach Anibal Moreira is working with a 17-strong preliminary squad and 14 of those players will travel to the United States next month before moving on to China for a ...

BUENOS AIRES (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women) - Macarena Rosset believes Argentina’s first training camp was the ideal launch pad for the national side as it tries reach the London Games. The national squad’s first week of training for the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament (OQT) for Women was at the CeNard (Centro Nacional de ...

LAS VEGAS (Olympics) - The season-ending ACL injury suffered by Derrick Rose that ended the Chicago Bulls star's chances of playing at the London Games will be discussed on Monday and Tuesday in Las Vegas when USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo meets with the national team coach Mike Krzyzewski. Rose’s injury happened late in the Bulls' home ...

GENEVA (FIBA U17 World Championship/FIBA U17 World Championship for Women) - The official event websites for the 2012 U17 FIBA World Championships have been launched. kaunas2012.fiba.com is your source for all the latest news and information about the FIBA U17 World Championship that will take place in Kaunas, Lithuania (29 June-8 July). Meanwhile, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Olympics) – Brazil have a wealth of great women’s basketball players from the past. And one of these greats believes that a top youngster in the country is ripe for a bright future. Two-time Olympic medalist and 1994 world champion Janeth Arcain predicts that 19-year-old Damiris Dantas will become a star for the Brazilian ...