Archive for August, 2011

Basketball

Monday, August 29th, 2011

Undoubtedly, basketball remains one of the favorite and popular sports amongst the other ones. Not only youngsters, but people of all age-groups enjoy playing and watching this game. And, why wouldn’t one not a game like basketball. People just go crazy to watch their tall and sturdy basketball players, dribbling and dumping the ball into the basket. The atmosphere not only goes crazy when a ball goes down the basket, but also when there is a foul.

Basketball definitely has a charm of its own. The basketball season has already begun with many matches being held in the different parts of the world. The EuroBasket game begins this 31st of August which has been confirmed. Latest basketball news report that the Federation of French Basketball has chosen Ali Traore as replacement for Ronny Turiaf in their France’s squad for the EuroBasket match. Turiaf has suffered a hand fracture during his latest match with Great Britain. So, Traore fans can see their favorite player on the game field soon.

With the EuroBasket games going to begin, 22 teams had been selected to play this season. Nevertheless, Finland and Portugal basketball teams have recently joined the 22 teams after Hungary lost to Portugal in a basketball game on Thursday. With so many teams, this basketball season is surely going to rock.