Pau Gasol News

Because his right hamstring had been slow to heal, Lakers forward Pau Gasol decided to undergo an examination, one facet of which was a sonogram that revealed he might have a slight tear.

Mike Krzyzewski wants more gold medals and NCAA titles, but more than anything, he craves the moments.

Basketball has long been an American pastime - the game was invented in Massachusetts and has been played primarily in the United States and dominated by America-born players for the majority of its century-plus existence.

MADRID ? It's a preseason game for both teams. Starters may not be the same as they will be in the regular season, the rotation certainly will not, and even if the game's on the line late, there may be an NBA All-Star and/or Olympian ? or two or three or four ? watching from the bench.

MADRID ? They went from a British city where Basketball still is as foreign to many as driving on the wrong side of the road to one in Spain where the game is not just familiar but actually rather popular.

A serious grab bag of entries from around the blogosphere this week, though in light of international tours, David Stern's vague non-proclamations, and the imminent tipoff to the season, all things basketball were a bit overshadowed by the NBA beast.

Low Priced Vacations to America with Tickets to the Best NBA Games of the Season.

Isn't he? The league announced last week that Kobe Bryant sells more NBA jerseys in Europe than any other player.

Greivis Vasquez didn't gravitate to baseball. The expectation was that he should.

As Madrid's bid team for the 2016 Olympics returned to Spain on Saturday, questions remained over what went wrong alongside speculation over another run in 2020.

Two weeks after the Lakers won the NBA championship, Pau Gasol jumped on an airplane and headed home to Spain, to the island of Ibiza for 10 days of sun and fun.

St. Francis - The last time Ersan Ilyasova put on a Milwaukee Bucks uniform, he was a timid 19-year-old and still far from ready to contribute in a significant way.

The race for the 2016 Olympics concludes Friday in Copenhagen, where the International Olympic Committee will select Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro or Tokyo as the Summer Games host.

Spain won their first European basketball crown last night, cruising to a 85-63 triumph over Serbia in last night's final in Warsaw.

Notre Dame wide receiver Michael Floyd underwent surgery Sunday for a broken left collar bone and is likely out for the remainder of the regular season.

A review of who some Chicagoans are backing guaranteed to surprise you. Spain had two sport victories helping its bid for Olympics 2016 Summer Games.

The Spanish national team won its first European title on Sunday at the Eurobasket-2009 in Poland.

Team USA got its redemption with Olympic gold in Beijing in 2008. On Sunday, Team Espana got its redemption with Eurobasket gold in Katowice, Poland.

American sprinters Tyson Gay and Carmelita Jeter flirted with history at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix on Sunday.

Rudy FernA ndez fights for control of the ball with the Serbian player Nenad Krstic - EFE The Spanish won the Gold medal for the very first time by beating Serbia in the final in Poland, 85-63 Spain has won the final of the European Basketball Championships in Poland by beating Greece in the semi-final on Saturday by 82-64, and then going on to ...