International Smorgasbord between Thunder and Grizz

Yes, I'm still alive. Things have been - shall we say - busy.
Now a married man, and a full-time freelancer to boot, I'm once again looking to get back into the bloggin' swing of things.
Still, I've written a few apropos articles in recent months, but wasn't able to post them ....... until now.

I went to a Thunder-Grizz game in December and wrote about some of the young foreign players permeating that scene in an article for SLAM. So, here's the courtside low-down on Thabeet, Thabo, Serge Ibaka, M. Gasol et al.
Drink it in.

Continental Creme de la Dunk Kings

As mentioned in an earlier post, Victor Claver is one of the up and coming small forwards in Spain. How up this Iberian pogo-stick can actually get is now fully viewable in this footage of an ACB dunk contest.


And who's the African guy throwing dunks with vicious regularity?
That's 19-year old Serge Ibaka, a 2008 draft pick who could become the sickest slammer to ever play in a European leage.