In last night's game between Atlanta Hawks and Orlando Magic Georgian international tough man Zaza Pachulia had a heated moment, or two, with two Orlando players.

Journalists at ESPN The Magazine gathered information about the best-paid athletes from 182 countries. The research revealed that there are 18 basketball players that are the top earners among athletes in their native countries.

A quite bizarre, to say the least, incident occurred during a league game in Argentina. After getting the defensive rebound following the second missed free throw, the (presumably American) scored a basket against his own team with a stylish, to say the truth, hook.

Almost five years ago two basketball enthusiasts decided that they were not covered by the European (and international basketball) coverage offered by some professional (and not) media and decided to make their voice heard. Five years later, many more people added to TalkBasket crew, thousands of articles later, becoming Euroleague media partners, having reporters covering a FIBA World Championship, Eurobasket, Euroleague Final Fours, play-offs and finals of some of the best European Leagues and more the non-profit TalkBasket website decided to take it to the next level.

American player Decorey Young took part in the Argentinian All Star Game and the Dunk Contest. So what's so special about that you may ask?

Watch Guy Dupuy's amazing dunk over a car, the way it should be!

It could have been that the Raptors and Nets didn't feel that the UK crowds were sold on basketball at the end of the regulation 48 minutes that both teams played on Saturday 5th March.

Excited fans? Check. NBA style arena? Check.

Anything forgotten? Oh yeah, the Toronto Raptors and the New Jersey Nets.

Tehran, Iran--Samuel Hoskin, multi-talented 6'9" power forward, who earlier opted out of his contract with 3rd place Israeli team Bnei Hasharon left on a contract to China just days ago with the Jiangsu Dragons but when he arrived he learned of clearance problems within the Chinese Basketball Association and now Hoskin has signed with the Club Gorgan in Iran. Hoskin is to report by the end of the week in Iran in hopes to lift this team to the Iranian Basketball Federation playoffs where the Iran club Mahram has been a power house over the last few years.

FIBA Europe announced on Friday that Milos Teodosic of Serbia has been voted European Player of the Year for 2010. The award winner was chosen by the public and an expert panel vote by media representatives and coaches, following a historically tight race that was only decided on the last day.