• FIBA dance team told to stop performing at Worlds tournament

    Updated: 2010-09-02 05:04:57
     The AP reports:The Red Foxes have been told to stop performing in games involving the host country because their risque costumes and routines are offensive to the nation that is nearly entirely Muslim. Islam prohibits women from exposing their skin in public. Basketball’s governing body said Wednesday the ban was not its decision. Secretary general Patrick [...]

  • Canadian basketball is growing

    Updated: 2010-08-31 06:43:12
    Mike Ganter of the Toronto Sun reports: No matter what transpires over the next few days for the Canadian senior national team here on the coast of the Aegean Sea, this summer will be looked back on as one of the best Canadian basketball has ever enjoyed. And while the senior men’s national team haven’t had a [...]

  • Chris Bosh gets engaged

    Updated: 2010-08-30 06:59:07
    The New York Post reports: Miami Heat superstar Chris Bosh is set to marry girlfriend Adrienne Williams. The giant $100M NBA player proposed to petite Williams in Miami on Friday, after dating her for a year. A source told Page Six: “Chris proposed to Adrienne outside their new home in Miami at sunset. They then went [...]

  • FIBA suspends Nenad Krstic, Sofoklis Schortsanitis, others for fighting

    Updated: 2010-08-26 18:18:19
    FIBA, the world governing body of basketball, today announced that four players are to be suspended, and their national federations fined, after recent fighting at a friendly tournament in Greece. On 19th August, at a game between Greece and Serbia, a fight broke out towards the end of the game involving two players - Antonis Fotsis [...]

  • Sixers advise Andres Nocioni to skip Worlds

    Updated: 2010-08-26 16:49:03
    The Philadelphia 76ers announced that due to forward Andres Nocioni’s injured left ankle, the team has advised him to withdraw from the upcoming FIBA World Championships, effective immediately. The MRI of Nocioni’s left ankle was reviewed by Dr. Jack McPhilemy of Main Line Health Services, who recommended that Nocioni stop all basketball and impact activity until [...]

  • Team USA cuts Rajon Rondo; Colangelo says Rondo asked to withdraw

    Updated: 2010-08-24 18:31:09
    With one exhibition game remaining and just tfour days out from the tip of the FIBA World Championship for Men, USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo today announced the 12 players who will represent the United States at the 2010 FIBA World Championship. Named to the 12-man 2010 USA World Championship Team were: Chauncey Billups (Denver Nuggets); [...]

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