The 2024 Olympic qualifying tournaments will take place in Spain, Latvia, Greece, and Puerto Rico and will be played from July 2-7, FIBA confirmed on Monday.
A total of 12 men’s basketball teams will compete at the 2024 Olympics in Paris and eight of those spots have already been claimed. Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Serbia, South Sudan, and the U.S. have punched their tickets to Paris.
Twenty-four nations will compete in four six-team tournaments this July for the right to secure one of the final four Olympic basketball berths. In addition to confirming the host cities, FIBA also completed the draw for each of those tournaments on Monday. Here are those results:
Valencia, Spain
- Group A: Angola, Lebanon, Spain
- Group B: Bahamas, Finland, Poland
San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Group A: Ivory Coast, Lithuania, Mexico
- Group B: Bahrain, Italy, Puerto Rico
Riga, Latvia
- Group A: Georgia, Latvia, Philippines
- Group B: Brazil, Cameroon, Montenegro
Piraeus, Greece
- Group A: Croatia, New Zealand, Slovenia
- Group B: Dominican Republic, Egypt, Greece
Each team will play two round robin games against the other teams in each group. At that point, the third-place teams in each group will be eliminated, while the first-place team from Group A will face the second-place team in Group B — and vice versa.
The winners of those semifinal matchups will then play one another in the final and the winner of that game will clinch a spot in the Olympics, which are scheduled to begin on July 26, 2024.
The Olympics, another disaster brewing for the United States. A case can be made that their is only one American among the current top five players in the world, and he ranks fifth, with Wembanyama soon to join the list.
1. Jokic
2. Giannis
3. Embiid
4. Doncic
5. Steph Curry
Embiid plans on suiting up for the US, just fyi. He’s already made that known.
Not about Olympics. Just the fact that the 4 best players in the world were not born in the USA.
+ one of Giannis or Luka is guaranteed to miss the Olympics since they’re in the same group.
Luka’s already out since he’s Slovenian. Kristaps Porzingis is Latvian.
I stand corrected. Slovenia is in there in that group.
So what’s your point? Talent is talent. Who cares what country they’re from?
Embiid has already committed to playing for the US, but Cameroon could’ve made some noise with a lineup of Embiid, Pascal Siakam and his brother, Luc Mbah A’Moute, and DJ Strawberry (Darryl’s son) at the point.