Ming Yao (226-C-80) has quickly squashed any potential rift that could have developed with new teammate Ron Artest (201-G-79, college: St.John's) prior to the volatile forward's arrival in Houston. Earlier this week, it was widely reported that Artest would be coming to the Rockets from Sacramento for a 2009 first-round pick, guard Bobby Jackson and another player -- likely rookie forward Donte Greene. Read more...

Adam Parada (213-C-81, agency: Octagon, college: Cal-Irvine) finally came up with the kind of game expected of him Wednesday night. Too bad it came too late for Red Bull. Still, the Barakos drew strength from Adam Parada's personal conference-high 33 points to beat the Magnolia Beverage Masters, 102-90, for third place in the Smart PBA Fiesta Conference at the Araneta Coliseum. Adam Parada, who averaged only 16. Read more...

According to sources around the league, the Mitsubishi Diamond Dolphins of the JBL have acquired 7-foot Mexican-American center Adam Parada (213-C-81, agency: Octagon, college: Cal-Irvine) for the upcoming season. The soon-to-be 27-year old U.S.-born, Mexican national team member has played in Jordan, Korea, and the Philippines since finishing his career at UC-Irvine in 2004. The JBL regular season will tip off on September 26th. Read more...

BAHRAIN'S national carrier Gulf Air has been announced as the official airline of the first Bahrain-Philippines Ambassador's Friendship Games. The airline will be flying professional basketball team the Sta Lucia Realtors into Bahrain for the Games, which are set to take place on August 21 and 22 at the Umm Al Hassam sports complex. Read more...

Hong Kong Men's Basketball team won the title of the Strait Cup 2008, as they defeated Fujian SBS Xunxing 86-81 in the host final at Southorn Stadium on 27th July. Moreover, point guard LAW Yi-ting of Hong Kong named the MVP and the Best Three-point shooter award in this tournament. He had scored 14 of his game high 28pts in the 4th period. Read more...

ESL Coach of the Year - 2008 (All Cities included): Glen Hayes Glen Hayes was the ultimate professional in the ESL this summer and had a positive personality with the ESL staff, players and officials. He was very entertaining as he coached and often cracked jokes with the referees and opossing players during the game. He was very well organized and in the Las Vegas event he had the best drill stations according to the players. Read more...

The Eurobasket Summer League in Salt Lake City announces the following players to the 2008 All Tournament Team: The MVP of the ESL in Salt Lake City is Kenny Walker (206-F/C-80, college: Alabama) (206-F/C-80, college: Alabama). Kenny played extremely well all three games and came up really big in the Championship game vs. Munich with 21pts and 9rbs. Read more...

The 20th Edition of the FIBA Asia Junior Championship is going to be held in Iran from August 28 through September 5. The draw for the competition was recently held at the Azadi Basketball Hall. The tourney will enjoy the participation of sixteen teams. They were divided into 4 preliminary groups. China, Japan, Hong Kong and India got into Group A. Group B comprised South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan and Syria. Chinese Taipei, Philippines, UAE and Lebanon got into Group C. Read more...

Yuta Tabuse (175-G-80, college: BYU-Hawaii)'s summer audition with the New Jersey Nets was, well, a short one. The veteran point guard played in three of the team's Orlando Pro Summer League games last week, helping the Nets post a 4-1 record. He was on the court for 8 minutes, 46 seconds in that span. Tabuse, the former BYU-Hawaii standout and the first Japanese to play in the NBA, missed all six of his field-goal attempts in Orlando, including a pair of 3-pointers. Read more...

Yemen improved to 2-1 record at the U18 WABA Championship. The hosts held off Lebanon 85:82 to climb to 2-1 record in the ladder. Yemen got to a better start of the game and led 23:20 after the starting frame. The hosts put up a brilliant performance in the second frame and stretched the margin to 13 points. Lebanon never recovered and suffered their third loss at the tournament. Next Yemen took on undefeated Iran and failed to tame the main favorites of the tourney. Read more...

Despite previous announcement basketball team from Petropavlovsk will not be a member of Kazakhstan National League. The vice-president of Kazakhstan Basketball Federation said that the financing, which club was hoping to receive will come not this season, but for 2009-10 season. The team is expected to join National League next year, but this year they will play in Higher League, which is practically 2nd division in Kazakhstan. Read more...

SEMIFINALS (BEST-OF-SEVEN) July 20 (Sun) Cuneta Astrodome (Game 1) Air21 87 Magnolia 113 Red Bull 82 Ginebra 108 July 23 (Wed) Araneta Coliseum (Game 2) Ginebra 111 Red Bull 104 Magnolia 102 Air21 103 July 25 (Fri) Ynares Center (Game 3) Air21 82 Magnnolia 78 Red Bull 91 Ginebra 94 July 27 (Sun) Araneta Coliseum (Game 4) Ginebra 101 Red Bull 97 (OT) Magnolia 104 Air21 102 Read more...

(BEIJING, August 1) -- Iran's Men's Basketball team has no time to review the heavy 75-46 loss they suffered against China on August 1 as they are anxiously awaiting the medical results for mainstay center Hamed Ehadadi, who injured his right ankle in the fourth quarter. China's 29-point victory earns them a third place finish in the 2008 FIBA Diamond Ball Tournament, which has been hosted by Nanjing. Read more...

Neptunas Klaipeda of Lithuania are not interested anymore with Jordan & Zain's captain Zaid Al Khas (205-C-76, college: Gannon) and decided to turn to other options according to Krepsinis.net website..... This action was taken following the obstacles in contacting the club management to ask about the availablity of the player and to go further in negotiations, Other players are now o nthe list of the club and they will decide him in the following few days. Read more...