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I have seen Ricky Rubio play in person almost two dozen times while covering the 2007 Eurobasket in Madrid, the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and the 2010 World Championship in Istanbul, and I have never seen him play a quote-unquote great game. I have...

So here it is, approaching 2 a.m. New York time, and my body is still on Istanbul time. Props to Lufthansa for their food. And props to the Turkish Basketball Federation for putting on a good tournament at the World Championship. One of the moment...

Team USA tops Turkey in the championship game

Team USA will face a tough semifinal foe in Lithuania

Team USA will face a tough crowd in its championship game with Turkey

Quarterfinal victory over Russia leaves Team USA two wins from gold.

The secretary general of FIBA, the governing body of international basketball, would like to see the NBA change its goaltending rules to allow players to knock the ball off the rim.

ISTANBUL, Turkey -- I spent the second game of tonight's doubleheader at the World Championship sitting alongside ESPN analyst Fran Fraschilla, who believes Turkey is going to defeat Serbia in the semifinals Saturday and make it to the gold medal gam...

ISTANBUL -- To foul or not to foul. That was the question. With the Serbia-Spain game tied 89-89 with 25.8 seconds left, a timeout was called and the two teams dispersed into their separate huddles to discuss strategy. And since this was a FIBA ga...

Clearly perturbed by Russia coach David Blatt's comment that the Soviet Union was the rightful winner of the gold-medal game at the 1972 Munich Olympics, coach Mike Krzyzewski launched his own counterattack Wednesday.

ISTANBUL -- I don't usually let others write my leads for me, but I'll make an exception in this case and relay what Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey tweeted after watching Luis Scola dominate down the stretch of Argentina's 93-89 victory over Brazil: ...

ISTANBUL -- Bob Donewald is a coaching lifer who has plied his trade everywhere -- from England to Cleveland to Shanghai to Brazil to New Orleans to Ukraine -- before landing his current job in China, where he succeeded Jonas Kazlauskas and Del Harri...

Team USA may be favored against Russia, but the Russians have one big advantage.

ISTANBUL -- The next team the Americans face is coached by an American, a man who learned in 1972, back when he was a 13-year-old in Framingham, Mass., about the heartbreak international basketball can cause. He is David Blatt, actually an Israeli...

The new-look Team USA was clicking like never before in a blowout win over Angola.

ISTANBUL -- It's not often that you get chills up your spine from being at a basketball game, especially when you've been to hundreds upon hundreds of them in your career. But tonight was one such night. A crowd of 15,500 sang in unison, belting o...