Tag: NBA Players overseas

  • Deron Williams Drops 50 For Besiktas

    Deron Williams had a career best night for Besiktas in European action, dropping 50 points on Gottingen from Germany, as his Turkey experience gets better and better with time. He might be getting Lamar Odom as a teammate pretty soon as well.

  • Hugo Chaves Keeps Greivis Vasquez in Venezuela, Denying Israeli Signing

    While things are escalating between the Star NBA players and David Stern in the Lockout meetings, Hugo Chavez took his political views into effect by keeping Venezuelan NBA player, Greivis Vasquez, in Venezuela and denying Israeli team Hapoel Jerusalem from signing the former Maryland star and currently fringe Memphis Grizzlies player.

  • Kobe Bryant and the Lockout Induced Chinese Adventure

    Right now, the players are losing. Soon enough the checks will stop coming, and players who haven’t landed deals in Europe or other basketball leagues, haven’t saved for a rainy day, aren’t planning on a career change or don’t have some lucrative commercial deal, will be hoping this lockout ends. For players like Kobe Bryant, who is pretty much in a league of his own, times are less troubled.

  • NBA Players NOT Interested in Playing Overseas

    LeBron James belives there’s still hope for the 2011-2012 NBA season. Maybe not to start on time, but it can be saved. Sitting down with AP, LeBron James spoke about his summer activities, which unlike a growing number of NBA player, don’t involve signing with European clubs, or even Asian (Dwyane Wade and China?). No overseas plans for LeBron in then near future, until the 2012 Olympic Games.