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The Turkey men's national basketball team (Turkish: Türkiye Millî Basketbol Takımı) represents Turkey in international basketball tournaments. They are governed by the Turkish Basketball Federation. Their nickname is the 12 Dev Adam, meaning 12 Giant Men. Turkey has competed at every major international basketball tournament.
LeBron James (USA, in white) attempts a shot against China's Yao Ming at the 2008 Olympics. Basketball is a sport contested at the Summer Olympic Games. A men's basketball tournament was first held at the 1904 Olympics as a demonstration; it has been held at every Summer Olympics since 1936.
Turkey, after the Ottoman Empire, first participated at the Olympic Games in 1908 and has sent athletes to compete in most editions of the Summer Olympic Games since then, except the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp because of the sanction against the Central Powers including the Ottoman Empire, the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles at the period of worldwide Great Depression, and the 1980 ...
The field is set for the 2024 Paris Olympic men's basketball knockout round. Here's the bracket and schedule. Olympic basketball schedule, bracket: How to watch, stream 2024 men's knockout rounds
Here is how to watch the final games of the 2024 Paris Olympics women's basketball competitions. Olympic basketball gold medal game: Women's final schedule, bracket at Paris Games. 2024 Paris ...
Turkey, officially named Türkiye by the IOC, competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. Since the nation's official debut in 1908, Turkish athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, except for three occasions: Antwerp 1920, because of the sanction against the Central Powers including the Ottoman Empire, Los Angeles 1932 at the ...
The only Olympic Games in which Team USA did not medal in men's 5x5 basketball was in the 1980 Moscow Olympics, when the U.S. boycotted the Games over the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan ...
The National Basketball Association, based in the U.S., has a Canadian team, and several minor leagues operate on both sides of the U.S.—Canada border. Four Canadian squad members played in U.S.-based competitions—two with U.S.-based NBA teams, and two for Gonzaga University's team. Forty-one NBA players were selected to compete in the ...