2024 Olympic men’s basketball field set as Greece, Brazil, Spain and Puerto Rico claim final spots

The remaining four spots in the 2024 Olympic Games have been claimed, with Brazil, Greece, Spain and Puerto Rico punching their tickets to Paris on Sunday. They round out the 12-team field in the Paris Olympics, joining France, Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Serbia, South Sudan and the United States.

Those four countries outlasted the competition at four different qualifying tournaments featuring 24 total teams over the course of the week. There were plenty of familiar NBA faces playing in the qualifiers, including Giannis Antetokounmpo, who is heading to the Olympics for the first time. The Antetokounmpo-led Greece team is in the Olympics for the first time in 16 years after beating Croatia on Sunday. Greece, which hosted a qualifying tournament, also knocked out Luka Doncic and Slovenia in the semifinals 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.

In San Juan, Puerto Rico, the host country (featuring Jose Alvarado, Tremont Waters and Davon Reed) defeated Lithuania (featuring Domantas Sabonis, Domantas Motiejunas, Mindaugus Kuzminskas and Deividas Sirvydis) to head to the Olympics.

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.

Here is a look at all the results from Olympic qualifying. 

Olympic basketball qualifying tournament schedule, scores

(All times Eastern)

Tuesday, July 2
Bahamas 96, Finland 85
Spain 104, Lebanon 59
Dominican Republic 90, Egypt 77
Brazil 81, Montenegro 72
Latvia 83, Georgia 55
Croatia 108, Slovenia 92
Italy 114, Bahrain 53
Lithuania 96, Mexico 84

Wednesday, July 3
Montenegro 70, Cameroon…

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Author : James Herbert

Publish date : 2024-07-08 13:31:24

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