KNOWN as the FIBA World Championship from 1950 until 2010, the FIBA Basketball World Cup is the flagship event of the International Basketball Federation.

The first-ever FIBA Basketball World Cup took place in Argentina in 1950 with the host nation prevailing in the final against Team USA. Since the first staging of the tournament in Buenos Aires, where six teams did battle, the field has grown exponentially to feature the 32 best teams from around the world. Former Yugoslavia has won gold in five of the 16 editions of the FIBA Basketball World Cup to date, while Team USA accounted for four and the former Soviet Union had three.

The FIBA World Cup has been the center stage for some of international basketball’s biggest stars — from Oscar Schmidt and Nikos Galis to Pau Gasol and Kevin Durant, and many in between.(FIBA)

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