BERLIN (FIBA Basketball World Cup) - Svetislav Pesic engineered one of the most significant gold-medal runs in international basketball history when he coached Yugoslavia at the 2002 FIBA World Championship. In Indianapolis, Indiana, Pesic's squad made sure that for the first time, a Team USA that consisted of NBA players would not reach the top of the ...

ISTANBUL (Olympics/FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament) - Great Britain's Pops Mensah-Bonsu had to watch in frustration as his national team played at last year’s EuroBasket in Lithuania while he recovered from a shoulder operation. Make no mistake, the 28-year-old center remains a key man in the British set-up with the Olympics just several months ...

ANKARA (Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women) - There is one certainty going into the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women in Ankara. The last game of this 12-team event to be played on 1 July will be as tense as any basketball clash this year. It will be a do-or-die affair contested by national teams trying to make it to the London ...

LOS ANGELES (NBA/Olympics) - The NBA lockout has so far made for quite an unusual and unpredictable 2011-2012 season for many teams and players, but perhaps no one has felt its effects more so than Pau Gasol. Helping Spain to a successful defence of its EuroBasket crown in Lithuania may well be the last thing he could have predicted - and made good ...

CHARLOTTE (NBA) - Boris Diaw expected the 2011-2012 NBA season to be one of trials and tribulations for the Charlotte Bobcats, but his team's current struggles have surpassed anything he might have imagined. The Bobcats head to Minnesota on Wednesday having won just three of their first 28 games to rank as the league's worst team by quite some margin. ...