World Championship

January 26, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors [...]

September 12, 2010 – Dr. Dime We’ve all heard that ‘Defense Wins Championships’ a million times over. Well today the Americans proved once again the validity of that statement by locking down Turkey in the FIBA World Championship Finals. Team USA for the first time since 1994 are your World Champions! Team USA came out [...]

September 11, 2010 – THD Rumor Patrol Kevin Durant is unlike most of America’s biggest basketball stars. He couldn’t wait to wear the red, white and blue this summer. Especially on Sept. 11. With a special memorial message on his sneakers, Durant carried the United States into the gold-medal game at the world championship, scoring [...]

August 30, 2010 – THD Rumor Patrol “They came, they saw, they survived. The United States got their first real test of the FIBA World Championship on Monday night and edged Brazil 70-68 as Leandro Barbosa’s potential game-tying lay-up at the buzzer stayed out. In probably the most thrilling encounter between the two countries since [...]

August 30, 2010 – THD Rumor Patrol “Basketball’s governing body says more than 100 random drug tests will be conducted at the world championship, its largest program ever. Patrick Baumann, FIBA’s secretary general, says 48 players, two from each team, have been tested and there will be at least 60 tests more during the tournament [...]