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1994 FIBA World Championship for Women

The 1994 FIBA Women's World Championship was hosted by the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Sydney, Australia from 2 June to 12 June, 1994.

1998 FIBA World Championship for Women

The 1998 FIBA Women's World Championship was hosted by Germany from May 26 to June 7, 1998.

2005 FIBA Asia Championship

The 2005 FIBA Asia Championship was the men's basketball qualifying tournament for FIBA Asia at the 2006 FIBA World Championship at Japan.

2009 Euroleague American Tour

Overall, in spite of the fact that Euroleague teams seemed unable to threaten their NBA competition within the USA, they demonstrated some of the advantages that make them high-class basketball organizations: Solid fundamentals, outstanding team play and some of the greatest players of FIBA Basketball like Theo Papaloukas, Milos Teodosic, Aleks Maric, Ioannis Bourousis and Sofoklis Schortsianitis to name a few.

2012 Centrobasket

In 2013, FIBA suspended the Panamanian Basketball Federation "for many problems that Panama has been going through for several years due to conflicts of interest between two Directives that manifest hold the same authority," as announced by FIBA Secretary-General Patrick Baumann.

2013 FIBA Americas Championship qualification

FIBA suspended the Panamanian Basketball Federation "for many problems that Panama has been going through for several years due to conflicts of interest between two Directives that manifest hold the same authority," as announced by FIBA Secretary-General Patrick Baumann.

2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup Group A

Group A of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup will be the group stage of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup for six teams.

2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup Group B

Group B of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup will be the group stage of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup for six teams.

2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup Group C

Group C of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup will be the group stage of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup for six teams.

2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup Group D

Group D of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup will be the group stage of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup for six teams.

Barbaros Akkaş

Senior Men Team: EuroBasket 2001 – 2nd place (2001), World Championship - 9th place (2002), EuroBasket 2003 – 12th place (2003), EuroBasket 2005 Elimination Group 1st place (2005), 15th Mediterranean Games - 4th place & 2006 FIBA World Championship Men - 6th place (2006), EuroBasket 2007 – 11th place (2007), EuroBasket 2009 Elimination Group 1st place (2008), EuroBasket 2009 - 8th place (2009), 2010 FIBA World Championship Men – 2nd place (2010)

Bora Stanković

Borislav Stanković (born 1925), basketball official and long-time president of FIBA

Breanna Stewart

She joined future UConn teammates Moriah Jefferson and Morgan Tuck on the twelve-player squad that competed in the 2012 FIBA Americas U-18 National Championship, held in August 201, in Puerto Rico.

Deaf basketball

Deaf International Basketball Federation (DIBF) is a world governing body for international deaf basketball with support of International Basketball Federation (FIBA) and in cooperation with Deaflympics and its confederations.

Kelsey Bone

Bone was a member of the USA Women's U18 team which won the gold medal at the FIBA Americas Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Kendrick Nunn

Nunn was selected for the USA team that competed in the 2012 FIBA Under-17 World Championship in Kaunas, Lithuania from June 29 – July 8, 2012 along with Simeon teammate Parker and Whitney Young rival Jahlil Okafor.

Nikolaos Zisis

Zisis is known as "The Lord of the Rings" because he is the Greek player with the most combined medals won at the cadet, junior, young men's and men's FIBA European and world tournaments.

Renee Montgomery

In addition, Montgomery led the USA U-20 National Team to a gold medal during the summer prior to the start of the season at the FIBA U-20 Championship for Women in Mexico City.


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