July

I decided to open a thread most important event of the world basketball and started to give general info about it. I hope we can continue to discuss the whole event under this topic.



Japan (Sapporo, Sendai, Hamamatsu, Hiroshima, Saitama)19 August-3 September

Here is the complete schedule of the preliminary round.



Competition format



QUALIFIED TEAMS


THE OFFICIAL WEB SITE


CAN'T WAIT .. CAN'T WAIT...

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KG-MVP21

Yes July It would be a funny tournament...that I hope that Spain will be back with the gold!!!

PD: I'm making a FBB FIBA World championship tournament... http://es.geocities.com/enricbr9/
Put in EQUIPOS and Team USA...is now completed ya

PD2: Anybody can pass me a page with the rosters? thx

KirkHinrich12

This is nothing compared to the WBC

eo3

i read the shedule and it says in 2 occasions that PUR is goin to play PUR:p freaky

KG-MVP21

eo3 men do u have Puerto Rican official roster? :P

Stealth

Any USA games on TV? I'm thinkin NBA TV. Any chance ESPN carries a few?

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KG-MVP21

Sure also espn2

July

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(KG-MVP21 @ Jul 27 2006, 07:39 AM) [snapback]9622[/snapback]</div>I guess rosters are not officially finalized. I haven't seen any formal info about teams' rosters on web sites.

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KG-MVP21

that World cup site doesn't have it all...I only have USA roster with 15 players completed

KirkHinrich12

I hope ESPN carries some games. I haven't seen the World Championships hyped as much as the World Baseball Classic. Man, that makes 4 World Competitions this year: Winter Olympics, WBC, World Cup, and now this.

The White T-mac

GO GREECE!

July

The teams that I like to watch in such tournaments are (no specific order);

Italy,Spain, Brasil, USA, Serbian and Montegero, Greece ( recent years), Puerto Rico,
New Zeland with their interesting opening ,Haka Dance
and of course Turkey.
I can't say same thing for France even they have Tony Parker and Germany with Dirk Nowitzki...

For People who doesn't have idea about Haka Dance, here is different samples. it's succer version, but they do the almost same thing on the court.

NewZeland Haka Dance

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KG-MVP21

New Zeland of Basket do Haka dance too?

July

yes, they do... I saw them twice in Worldchampionship 2002 and Efes World Cup.

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KG-MVP21

Look that...it's very fun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ6PR0ZsAjk