Olympic basketball qualifying schedule, scores, how to watch as Brazil, Greece earn spots in Paris Games

The remaining four spots in the 2024 Olympic Games have been claimed, with Brazil, Greece, Spain, and, now, Puerto Rico punching their tickets to Paris on Sunday. At four tournaments around the world this week, 24 teams have competed for those spots. Eight remained when Sunday began with games in Latvia, Greece, Spain and Puerto Rico to determine the full field in Paris. Luka Doncic, Giannis Antetokounmpo and other familiar faces have been battling it out this week and Antetokounmpo’s Greece team knocked out Doncic’s Slovenia side on Saturday.

In Valencia, Spain, the host country (featuring Santi Aldama, Usman Garuba, Juan Nunez, Sergio Llull, Rudy Fernandez, Lonrezo Brown and Juancho and Willy Hernangomez) defeated an intriguing team from the Bahamas (featuring Deandre Ayton, Buddy Hield and Eric Gordon) in the finals. Previously, Spain beat Finland (which did not have Lauri Markkanen) in Saturday’s semifinals to advance to Sunday. 

In San Juan, Puerto Rico, the host country (featuring Jose Alvarado, Tremont Waters and Davon Reed) defeated Mexico in the semifinals. Lithuania (featuring Domantas Sabonis, Domantas Motiejunas, Mindaugus Kuzminskas and Deividas Sirvydis) defeated Italy (featuring Danilo Gallinari, Nicolo Melli and Nico Mannion) in the other San Juan semi.  Puerto Rico rode its hometown advantage all the way to a win over Lithuania to close Sunday’s games. 

In Riga, Latvia, the host country (featuring Davis and Dairis Bertans, Rodions Kurucs and Janis Timma) fell to Brazil (featuring Gui Santos, Bruno Caboclo, Cristiano Felicio, Raul Neto, Marcelo Huertas and Didi Louzada) in the finals, 94-69.

Elsewhere, Greece will head to its first Olympics event in 16 years after handily defeating Croatia, 80-69. It’ll be the first time Antetokounmpo will represent Greece on the Olympic stage, and he’ll do so against a stacked roster of fellow NBA luminaries. 

From Tuesday to Thursday, each team played the two other teams in its group. The top two teams from each group in each tournament advanced the semifinals on Saturday….

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Author : James Herbert

Publish date : 2024-07-08 00:19:27

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