USA - Nowitzki, Mavs

PHOENIX (NBA) - Dirk Nowitzki had 28 points and 17 rebounds as the Dallas Mavericks regained home-court advantage with a 95-88 victory over the Phoenix Suns in Game Three of the Western Conference finals

FIBA Oceania - Cook

BOAMBEE - FIBA Oceania has gifted 30 size 5 and 25 size 6 basketballs to help with the development of junior basketball in the Cook Islands.  "All we had to do was get them here" reports Liz Sosene, President of CIBF

NGR - Islanders slips

LAGOS (Vmobile Premier League) - The fortune of basketball basketball club of Lagos in the ongoing Nigeria premier league slips further down the ladder last night when it lost it fifth game of the season to

BRA - Canpeonato finals

RIO DE JANEIRO (Campeonato Nacional) - The second game of the best-of-five finals of Brazil's Campeonato Nacional was postponed after a judge suspended the competition. Franca and Ribeirao Preto were scheduled to

ESP - Tau and Barca advance

MADRID (Liga ACB Play-Offs) - Tau Ceramica and Winterthur FC Barcelona clinched their places in the semi-finals of the Liga ACB Play-offs on Sunday. Tau were 73-67 winners at Akasvayu Girona to seal a 3-1 series

GER - Rhein energie steal game one, home

BERLIN (Bundesliga Play-offs) - Rhein Energie Koln stole Game One and home court advantage of their German play-offs finals series against Alba Berlin with an 88-79 victory Sunday night. Titus Ivory replaced

JPN - BJ League hold its 2nd Annual 2006 Draft

TOKYO (BJ League) - The BJ League held its 2nd annual rookie draft on May 22 at the Tokyo Harajuku Quest Center. This year's draft was initially expected to assemble a weaker draft pool than last year's inaugural draft and

GRE - Reds scupper Giannakis' play-off dreams

ATHENS (A1 league Play-offs) - Club success may have eluded Panagiotis Giannakis (pictured) this season but the Greek national team boss will now turn his attention to this summer's FIBA World Championship in Japan.The man with the golden touch who won EuroBasket as a player with Greece in 1987 and then repeated the feat as a coach in 2005 in Serbia and Montenegro, saw his play-off dreams with

GBR - Finch to lead British

LONDON (EuroBasket 2007) - Former Sheffield Sharks boss Chris Finch has been appointed coach of the new Great Britain national team. Finch, 36, who is currently at the helm of Euphony Bree in Belgium, will coach

KOR - Ha Seung-Jin joins

PORTLAND (Basketball without Borders) - Korean international Ha Seung-Jin is the latest NBA player to commit himself to the Basketball without Borders program. Ha, the first South Korean to play in the NBA, will join

BRA - Ribeirao Preto take

RIO DE JANEIRO (Campeonato Nacional) - Ribeirao Preto produced a thrilling second-half comeback against Franca to come away with a 63-61 road win in Game One of Brazil's Campeonato Nacional final. The home side

NZL - Marks stands by decision

SAN ANTONIO (FIBA World Championships 2006) - Sean Marks will not play for the New Zealand Tall Blacks at the World Championships in Japan in August. The San Antonio Spurs forward/centre - the only New Zealander in the NBA - confirmed he would not change his decision to quit international basketball.Tall Blacks coach Tab Baldwin had opened the door for a return but, after the Spurs' play-off defeat to

ITA - Benetton advance to

TREVISO (Lega A) - Benetton Treviso beat Armani Jeans Milano in an intense Game Five decider on Saturday evening to reach the Lega A play-off semi-finals. The 81-66 win at a packed Palaverde Pavilion allowed

USA - Miami turn up heat on

MIAMI (NBA) - Dwyane Wade scored 35 points as the Miami Heat posted a 98-83 victory over the Detroit Pistons to take a 2-1 lead in the Eastern Conference finals. Shaquille O'Neal collected 27 points and

RUS - CSKA Moscow capture

MOSCOW (Superleague) - CSKA Moscow put an exclamation point on their triumphant season by beating BC Khimki 81-75 on Saturday to sweep the Russian Superleague championship series in three games.The victory completes a hat-trick of titles for CSKA, who also won the Euroleague crown and the Russian Cup. They have also won the Superleague crown four years in a row.For BC Khimki, the setback completes a

USA - Nowitzki helps Dallas

DALLAS (NBA Play-offs) - Dirk Nowitzki scored 12 of his 30 points in the final 10 minutes as the Dallas Mavericks rallied for a 105-98 victory over the Phoenix Suns to level the Western Conference finals at

NGR - Libya, Guinea and Kenya joins

LAGOS (FIBA Africa U18 Championship) - As the race began for the final for the 2006 Under 18 (male) FIBA Africa championship billed for South African city of Durban from July 29 through August 6 get keener

ESP - Gasol: 'Spain must win medal'

MADRID (FIBA World Championship) - Pau Gasol fully expects Spain to leave the FIBA World Championship in Japan with a medal.The Gasol-led Spaniards were undefeated and looking like gold medal contenders at the Athens Olympics but the United States upset them 102-94 in the quarter-finals. Last year in Belgrade, Spain, playing without Gasol, made it to the final four but again failed to win a medal

USA - Contenders for

COLORADO SPRINGS (FIBA Americas U18 Championship) - Including five players who boast of prior USA Basketball experience, 22 of the nation's top 18-year-old and under (born on or after Jan. 1, 1988) basketball players have

NZL - Shooting for the stars

AUCKLAND (NBL) - You think the 2005 National Basketball League final doesn't still prey on Paora Winitana's mind? How often does he practice the halfcourt "Hail Mary" that could have turned a 69-68 Auckland Stars win