Josh Jackson did this, good luck everybody
FIBA are unfortunately a touch slow at doling out the highlights from the knockout stages of the World Under 17 championships. For those of you out of the loop, the United States were pushed hard before pulling away from Serbia in the first of today’s quarter finals. We don’t have a clip from that 89-68 […]
AUDIO: Team GB’s Rachael Vanderwal on her move to Spain
Great Britain international Rachael Vanderwal is leaving the Irish women’s league after eight years to go pro with Gernika Bizkaia of Liga Femenina in Spain. We spoke to the point guard about her big move, listen below. At 31, Vanderwal is entering the professional ranks pretty late in her career. Having won a string of […]
Basketball World Cup of Beer: Quarter Finals – Part 2
We are in the latter stages of the 2014 Basketball World Cup of Beer. It began with 24 beers, one for each of the nations in the FIBA World Cup of Basketball. Now we’re down to the elite eight. It’s time to find out our first two semi-finalists. Here are your match-ups on day two […]
Photos and reaction from Bosnia’s win over Great Britain
George Rowland was in the Copper Box on Wednesday night to find out what the players and coaches made of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s 80-67 win over Team GB. First the reaction from the visitors. Nemanja Mitrovic (Guard/Forward-Bosnia & Herzegovina): I think we played well and accomplished our goal was here, get an important road win […]
Highlights: What you may have missed from Wednesday’s EuroBasket qualifiers
We did a round-up of last night’s EuroBasket 2015 second qualifying round action but here are some of the best bits from Wednesday’s games starting, above, with Czech Republic’s win over Portugal.
Rudy Fernandez signs on for four more years with Real Madrid
Real Madrid announced Thursday that Rudy Fernandez will stay with the Euroleague powerhouse for the next four seasons. The deal will see Fernandez stay with Real through to the end of the 2017/18 season, at which stage the former Portland Trail Blazer and Denver Nugget will be 33. Fernandez has made the All-Euroleague first team […]
Basketball World Cup of Beer: Quarter finals – Part 1
We are in the latter stages of the 2014 Basketball World Cup of Beer. It began with 24 beers, one for each of the nations in the FIBA World Cup of Basketball. Now we’re down to the elite eight. It’s time to find out our first two semi-finalists. Here are your match-ups on day one […]
EuroBasket 2015: No Vesely no problem and Gentile steps up
It was another busy night in the second qualifying round for EuroBasket 2015, with Russia dropping their second straight while Germany and the Czech Republic bounced back. In case you need a re-cap on what the teams involved need to do to qualify, the seven group winners progress to EuroBasket 2015 along with the top […]
EuroBasket 2015: Bosnia overcome late rally to beat Britain 80-67
It was a mess for Great Britain from the off, and that was just the shot clock, as Bosnia and Herzegovina opened their account in the EuroBasket 2015 qualifiers with a comfortable win in the Copper Box. Everything was going ok for Team GB until the arena’s technical issues got fixed. A scrappy opening two […]
Listen to the official 2014 FIBA World Cup song – Sube la Copa
A song that wouldn’t be out of place in a bar full of drunken holidaymakers in Torremolinos, Sube la Copa is the official song of the 2014. It’s about as inoffensive as official tournament songs get, which is really saying something given these things are rarely anything but saccharine. With lots of room for ample […]
FIBA World Cup Preview – Group B
We’re going group by group with what you need to know to enjoy the 2014 FIBA World Cup of Basketball. Today we’re looking at Group B. The teams Argentina Qualified: Third place at the 2013 FIBA Americas championship. No Manu Ginobili in this team and while still a threat to make the knockout stages, there […]
Highlights: Jonas Valanciunas scores 19 points against Australia
It was a big night for Jonas Valanciunas as he scored 19 points and snagged 8 rebounds in Lithuania’s World Cup warm-up win over Australia. Here’s the Raptors’ big man doing his thing.