2010 FIBA World Championship

2010 FIBA World Championship
16th FIBA World Championship
Tournament details
Host nation Turkey
Dates August 28 – September 12
Teams 24 (from 213 federations)
Venues 5 (in 4 host cities)
Champions  United States (4th title)
MVP United States Kevin Durant
Tournament leaders
PlayersTeams
Points Argentina Scola (27.1) United States (94.3)
Rebounds China Yi (10.2) United States (41.6)
Assists Argentina Prigioni (6.4) United States
 Spain (18.2)
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The 2010 FIBA World Championship, hosted by Turkey, was the international basketball competition contested by the men's national teams. The tournament ran from August 28 to September 12, 2010. It was co-organized by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), Turkish Basketball Federation and the 2010 Organizing Committee. It was considered as prestigious a competition as the Olympic Basketball Tournament.[1]

For the third time (after the 1986 and 2006 tournaments), the World Championship had 24 competing nations. As a result, the group stage games were played in four different cities, and the knockout round was hosted by Istanbul.

The United States won the tournament for their fourth time after going undefeated in the Opening Round and beating host Turkey in the final.

The draw for the Championship took place on December 15, 2009 in Istanbul.[2] Teams were drawn into four preliminary round groups of six teams each. Teams first played a round-robin schedule, with the top sixteen teams advancing to the knockout stage.[3]

Bid

2010 FIBA World Championship bidding results
Nations Round 1 Round 2
Turkey 7 10
France 8 9
Bosnia / Croatia / Serbia and Montenegro / Slovenia 4 —

Three bids from six countries – France, Turkey, and a joint bid from former Yugoslav republics Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Slovenia – made their final presentation during the FIBA's 20-member Central Board in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on December 5, 2004. Previously, Australia and New Zealand, Italy, Russia and Puerto Rico announced their intention to bid from the tournament, but withdrew their bids prior to the votes. France won the first round of voting, but Turkey eventually won the right to host after the joint bidders were knocked out in the first round.[4]

The tournament was the first time that Turkey has hosted the event and marked the first World Championship held in Europe since the 1998 FIBA World Championship was held in Greece.

Venues

Below is a list of the venues which hosted games during the 2010 FIBA World Championship. Each preliminary round group was hosted in a single arena in Kayseri (Group A), Istanbul (Group B), Ankara (Group C), and İzmir (Group D). The knockout phase then moved to Istanbul's Sinan Erdem Dome. Ankara Arena, completed in 2010, and Kadir Has Arena, completed in 2008, were built for the championships, while the other three arenas underwent renovations for the event.

Turkey Istanbul
Ankara
Istanbul (2)
İzmir
Kayseri
Abdi İpekçi Arena
Sinan Erdem Dome
Preliminary round Knockout stage
Ankara İzmir Kayseri Istanbul
Ankara Arena
Capacity: 11,000[5]		 Halkapınar Sport Hall
Capacity: 10,000[6]		 Kadir Has Arena
Capacity: 7,500[7]		 Abdi İpekçi Arena
Capacity: 12,500[8]		 Sinan Erdem Dome
Capacity: 16,500 (22,500)[9]

Qualifying

Qualified countries are in blue; those in yellow failed to qualify, and those in dark gray did not enter qualifying.

Turkey automatically qualified as the host country, and the United States also received an automatic berth for winning the 2008 Olympic Men's Basketball Tournament.

Most other teams secured their places in continental qualifying tournaments (three from Africa, three from Asia, two from Oceania, four from the Americas, and six from Europe). FIBA invited four "wild card" teams to fill out the twenty-four team field.

Wild cards

The four wild cards were determined by FIBA through criteria. For example, a team must have played in the Zone's qualification tournament to receive recommendation.[10] Also, in order for every team to have an opportunity for a wild card, a maximum of three teams from any Zone can be allotted a wild card entry. Once these requirements are satisfied, FIBA then looks at other important factors. Those include popularity of basketball within the country, success of the team, and government support for the team's National Federation. As of 2009, FIBA now requires that wild card candidates pay a late registration fee to be considered.[11]

Fourteen teams paid the 500,000 € fee to apply for one of the four wild card spots. FIBA then whittled down the teams to eight semifinalists – Cameroon, Germany, Great Britain, Korea, Lebanon, Lithuania, Nigeria, and Russia.[12] On Saturday, December 12, FIBA awarded Germany, Lebanon, Lithuania and Russia the four wild cards.[13]

List of qualified teams

The following 24 teams qualified for the final tournament (FIBA World Ranking at start of tournament in parentheses):[14]

FIBA Africa (3)
FIBA Asia (3+1)
FIBA Americas (4+1)
FIBA Oceania (2)
FIBA Europe (6+4)

Group Draw

The draw held on December 15 divided the qualified teams into four groups of six, groups A, B, C, and D, as listed for the preliminary round. Aside from the fact that those teams in the same line would not be in the same preliminary round groups, there were no other restrictions on how teams may be drawn.

Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 Line 5 Line 6

United States
 Argentina
 Spain
 Greece

 Serbia
 Slovenia
 France
 Turkey

 Brazil
 Puerto Rico
 Canada
 Australia

 Croatia
 Russia
 Lithuania
 Germany

 China
 Iran
 Lebanon
 Angola

 Jordan
 Tunisia
 New Zealand
 Ivory Coast

Squads

A Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 with the livery of the 2010 FIBA World Championship at the Atatürk International Airport in Istanbul. The company was among the official sponsors of the tournament.

At the start of tournament, all 24 participating countries had 12 players on their rosters. Final squads for the tournament were due on August 26, two days before the start of competition.[15]

Angola and the United States were the only teams made up of entirely domestic players (Jordan and Russia each had 11 domestic players). Slovenia was the only team composed entirely of individuals playing outside the domestic league. The Canada squad also consisted entirely of individuals playing outside the country, but at that time Canada had no professional league operating exclusively in the country (a minor professional league was scheduled to begin play in 2011). 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 tournament, the most of any league.

Preparation matches

Acropolis Tournament

Greece and Serbia both began the tournament shorthanded when each had two players suspended for their roles in a brawl at the World Championship tuneup Acropolis Tournament, held in mid-August. The two teams engaged in a chaotic brawl with 2:40 left when Greece's Antonis Fotsis threatened Serbia's Miloš Teodosić after Teodosić committed a foul.[16] The fight spilled off the floor and into the locker room tunnel; the game was thus terminated with final score the score at the time of the interruption (74–73 for Greece). Serbian center Nenad Krstić was arrested and held overnight for throwing a chair in the brawl.

For their roles in the melee, Krstić was suspended for the first three games of the tournament, while Teodosić, and Greece's Fotsis and Sofoklis Schortsanitis were suspended for the first two games. Both Greek coach Jonas Kazlauskas and Serbian coach Dušan Ivković criticized FIBA for waiting until less than 48 hours before the tournament – over a week after the brawl – to announce the suspensions, citing the unfairness of playing shorthanded for the first games.[17] Greece eventually won their first two games in spite of the suspensions, while Serbia won two of their first three games.

Bamberg Super Cup

Preliminary round

2010 FIBA World Championship final rankings.

The top four finishers in each of the four preliminary round groups advanced to the sixteen team, single-elimination knockout stage, where Group A teams would meet Group B teams and Group C would meet Group D. European teams proved the most successful in the first round, as nine of the ten teams advanced to the knockout stage (only Germany did not progress). Both Oceanian teams qualified for the next round, as did three of the five FIBA Americas teams. The three African and four Asian teams struggled, with only Angola and China reaching the knockout stage after each finished fourth place in their group.

There were few surprises in the early round; each team that advanced to the knockout stage was ranked in the top 20 of the FIBA World Ranking at the time of the tournament. Defending champions Spain struggled early, losing two of their first three games before recovering to finish second in Group D. Argentina and the United States, the two top teams in the FIBA rankings, both cruised to the knockout phase, as the United States went 5–0 and Argentina went 4–1, with their only loss coming to Number 5 ranked Serbia.

Tie-breaking procedure

At the end of the preliminary round, any ties will be broken by the following criteria, ordered from the one that will be applied first to the last:

  1. Game results between tied teams
  2. Goal average between games of the tied teams
  3. Goal average for all games of the tied teams
  4. Drawing of lots

Group A (Kayseri)

Team
 Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Tie
 Serbia 5 4 1 465 356+109 9 1–0
 Argentina 5 4 1 413 379+34 9 0–1
 Australia 5 3 2 381 341+40 8  
 Angola 5 2 3 340 414−74 7 1–0
 Germany 5 2 3 378 402−24 7 0–1
 Jordan 5 0 5 361 446−85 5  
28 August 2010
Australia  76–75  Jordan Kadir Has Arena, Kayseri
Angola  44–94  Serbia Kadir Has Arena
Germany  74–78  Argentina Kadir Has Arena
29 August 2010
Jordan  65–79  Angola Kadir Has Arena
Serbia  81–82 2OT  Germany Kadir Has Arena
Argentina  74–72  Australia Kadir Has Arena
30 August 2010
Jordan  69–112  Serbia Kadir Has Arena
Australia  78–43  Germany Kadir Has Arena
Angola  70–91  Argentina Kadir Has Arena
1 September 2010
Serbia  94–79  Australia Kadir Has Arena
Germany  88–92 OT  Angola Kadir Has Arena
Argentina  88–79  Jordan Kadir Has Arena
2 September 2010
Angola  55–76  Australia Kadir Has Arena
Argentina  82–84  Serbia Kadir Has Arena
Jordan  73–91  Germany Kadir Has Arena

Group B (Istanbul)

Team
 Pld W L PF PA PD Pts
United States 5 5 0 455 331+124 10
 Slovenia 5 4 1 393 376+17 9
 Brazil 5 3 2 398 354+44 8
 Croatia 5 2 3 395 407−12 7
 Iran 5 1 4 301 367−66 6
 Tunisia 5 0 5 300 407−107 5
28 August 2010
Tunisia  56–80  Slovenia Abdi İpekçi Arena, Istanbul
United States 106–78  Croatia Abdi İpekçi Arena
Iran  65–81  Brazil Abdi İpekçi Arena
29 August 2010
Slovenia  77–99 United States Abdi İpekçi Arena
Croatia  75–54  Iran Abdi İpekçi Arena
Brazil  80–65  Tunisia Abdi İpekçi Arena
30 August 2010
Slovenia  91–84  Croatia Abdi İpekçi Arena
Tunisia  58–71  Iran Abdi İpekçi Arena
United States  70–68  Brazil Abdi İpekçi Arena
1 September 2010
Croatia  84–64  Tunisia Abdi İpekçi Arena
Iran  51–88 United States Abdi İpekçi Arena
Brazil  77–80  Slovenia Abdi İpekçi Arena
2 September 2010
United States  92–57  Tunisia Abdi İpekçi Arena
Slovenia  65–60  Iran Abdi İpekçi Arena
Brazil  92–74  Croatia Abdi İpekçi Arena

Group C (Ankara)

Team
 Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Tie
 Turkey 5 5 0 393 285+108 10  
 Russia 5 4 1 365 346+19 9  
 Greece 5 3 2 403 370+33 8  
 China 5 1 4 360 422−62 6 1−1, 1.0127
 Puerto Rico 5 1 4 386 401−15 6 1−1, 0.9939
 Ivory Coast 5 1 4 334 417−83 6 1−1, 0.9938
28 August 2010
Greece  89–81  China Ankara Arena
Russia  75–66  Puerto Rico Ankara Arena
Ivory Coast  47–86  Turkey Ankara Arena
29 August 2010
China  83–73  Ivory Coast Ankara Arena
Puerto Rico  80–83  Greece Ankara Arena
Turkey  65–56  Russia Ankara Arena
31 August 2010
Russia  72–66  Ivory Coast Ankara Arena
Puerto Rico  84–76  China Ankara Arena
Greece  65–76  Turkey Ankara Arena
1 September 2010
China  80–89  Russia Ankara Arena
Ivory Coast  60–97  Greece Ankara Arena
Turkey  79–77  Puerto Rico Ankara Arena
2 September 2010
Puerto Rico  79–88  Ivory Coast Ankara Arena
Greece  69–73  Russia Ankara Arena
Turkey  87–40  China Ankara Arena

Group D (Izmir)

Team
 Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Tie
 Lithuania 5 5 0 391 341+50 10  
 Spain 5 3 2 420 356+64 8 1−1, 1.0705
 New Zealand 5 3 2 424 400+24 8 1−1, 0.9708
 France 5 3 2 351 339+12 8 1−1, 0.9595
 Lebanon 5 1 4 339 440−101 6  
 Canada 5 0 5 330 379−49 5  
28 August 2010
New Zealand  79–92  Lithuania İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall, İzmir
Canada  71–81  Lebanon İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
France  72–66  Spain İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
29 August 2010
Lithuania  70–68  Canada İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
Lebanon  59–86  France İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
Spain  101–84  New Zealand İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
31 August 2010
New Zealand  108–76  Lebanon İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
France  68–63  Canada İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
Spain  73–76  Lithuania İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
1 September 2010
Canada  61–71  New Zealand İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
Lebanon  57–91  Spain İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
Lithuania  69–55  France İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
2 September 2010
Spain  89–67  Canada İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
Lebanon  66–84  Lithuania İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall
New Zealand  82–70  France İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall

Final round (Istanbul)

Championship bracket

Round of 16 Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
                           
September 4, 2010            
  Serbia  73
September 8, 2010
  Croatia  72  
  Serbia  92
September 4, 2010
    Spain  89  
  Spain  80
September 11, 2010
  Greece  72  
  Serbia  82
September 5, 2010
    Turkey  83  
  Turkey  95
September 8, 2010
  France  77  
  Turkey  95
September 5, 2010
    Slovenia  68  
  Slovenia  87
September 12, 2010
  Australia  58  
  Turkey  64
September 6, 2010
    United States  81
  United States  121
September 9, 2010
  Angola  66  
  United States  89
September 6, 2010
    Russia  79  
  Russia  78
September 11, 2010
  New Zealand  56  
  United States  89
September 7, 2010
    Lithuania  74   Third Place
  Lithuania  78
September 9, 2010 September 12, 2010
  China  67  
  Lithuania  104   Serbia  88
September 7, 2010
    Argentina  85     Lithuania  99
  Argentina  93
  Brazil  89  

Consolation bracket

Classification round Fifth place
September 10, 2010
  Spain  97  
  Slovenia  80  
 
September 12, 2010
      Spain  81
    Argentina  86
Seventh place
September 10, 2010 September 11, 2010
  Russia  61   Slovenia  78
  Argentina  73     Russia  83

Round of 16

September 4
18:00
Serbia  73–72  Croatia
Scoring by quarter: 19–27, 15–9, 20–14, 19–22
Pts: Krstić 16
Rebs: Tepić 7
Asts: Tepić 4		 Pts: Popović 21
Rebs: Tomić 8
Asts: Popović 5
Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul
Attendance: 15,000
September 4
21:00
Spain  80–72  Greece
Scoring by quarter: 22–19, 15–12, 15–20, 28–21
Pts: Navarro 22
Rebs: Reyes 10
Asts: Rubio 6		 Pts: Zisis 16
Rebs: Fotsis 7
Asts: Spanoulis 3
Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul
Attendance: 15,000
September 5
18:00
Slovenia  87–58  Australia
Scoring by quarter: 16–8, 26–13, 29–24, 16–13
Pts: Lakovič 19
Rebs: Rizvić 5
Asts: Dragić 8		 Pts: Ingles 13
Rebs: Nielsen 8
Asts: Mills 3
Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul
Attendance: 15,000
September 5
21:00
Turkey  95–77  France
Scoring by quarter: 19–14, 24–14, 28–17, 24–32
Pts: Türkoğlu 20
Rebs: İlyasova 5
Asts: Tunçeri 3		 Pts: Diaw 21
Rebs: Diaw 5
Asts: Piétrus 4
Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul
Attendance: 15,000
September 6
18:00
United States 121–66  Angola
Scoring by quarter: 33–13, 32–25, 26–18, 30–10
Pts: Billups 19
Rebs: Odom 8
Asts: Rose, Westbrook 6		 Pts: Gomes 21
Rebs: Ambrosio 7
Asts: Morais 4
Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul
Attendance: 15,000
Referees: Milivoje Jovcic (SRB), Borys Ryzhyk (UKR), Samir Abaakil (MAR)
September 6
21:00
Russia  78–56  New Zealand
Scoring by quarter: 13–15, 18–12, 20–13, 27–16
Pts: Vorontsevich 18
Rebs: Vorontsevich 11
Asts: Ponkrashov 7		 Pts: Penney 21
Rebs: Vukona 5
Asts: Penney 2
Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul
Attendance: 15,000
September 7
18:00
Lithuania  78–67  China
Scoring by quarter: 17–22, 26–18, 21–11, 14–16
Pts: Kleiza 30
Rebs: Kleiza 9
Asts: Kalnietis 5		 Pts: Liu 21
Rebs: Yi 12
Asts: Wang S, Wang Z 3
Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul
Attendance: 15,000
September 7
21:00
Argentina  93–89  Brazil
Scoring by quarter: 25–25, 21–23, 20–18, 27–23
Pts: Scola 37
Rebs: Scola 9
Asts: Prigioni 8		 Pts: Huertas 32
Rebs: Splitter 5
Asts: Splitter 2
Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul
Attendance: 15,000

Quarterfinals

September 8
18:00
Serbia  92–89  Spain
Scoring by quarter: 27–23, 22–18, 18–23, 25–25
Pts: Veličković 17
Rebs: Krstić 9
Asts: Teodosić 8		 Pts: Navarro 27
Rebs: Garbajosa 6
Asts: Navarro 5
Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul
Attendance: 15,000
September 8
21:00
Turkey  95–68  Slovenia
Scoring by quarter: 27–14, 23–17, 21–12, 24–25
Pts: İlyasova 19
Rebs: İlyasova 5
Asts: Türkoğlu 7		 Pts: Nachbar 16
Rebs: Brezec 5
Asts: Bečirovič 6
Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul
Attendance: 15,000
September 9
18:00
United States 89–79  Russia
Scoring by quarter: 25–25, 19–14, 26–17, 19–23
Pts: Durant 33
Rebs: Odom 12
Asts: Billups 5		 Pts: Bykov 17
Rebs: Vorontsevich 12
Asts: Khvostov 5
Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul
Attendance: 15,000
Referees: Reynaldo Antonio Mercedes Sanchez (DOM), José Martín (ESP), Jakob Zamojski (POL)
September 9
21:00
Lithuania  104–85  Argentina
Scoring by quarter: 28–18, 22–12, 35–23, 19–32
Pts: Jasaitis 19
Rebs: Kleiza 9
Asts: Jankūnas 5		 Pts: Delfino 25
Rebs: Oberto 5
Asts: Prigioni 6
Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul
Attendance: 15,000

5th–8th classification

September 10
18:00
Spain  97–80  Slovenia
Scoring by quarter: 16–23, 22–18, 26–21, 33–18
Pts: Navarro 26
Rebs: Reyes 10
Asts: Navarro 7		 Pts: Lakovič 19
Rebs: Brezec 9
Asts: Lakovič 4
Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul
Attendance: 15,000
September 10
21:00
Russia  61–73  Argentina
Scoring by quarter: 11–15, 22–21, 19–18, 9–19
Pts: Monia 17
Rebs: Mozgov 11
Asts: Ponkrashov 4		 Pts: Scola 27
Rebs: Delfino 7
Asts: Prigioni 5
Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul
Attendance: 15,000
September 11
15:00
7th place
Report
Slovenia  78–83  Russia
Scoring by quarter: 23–21, 14–9, 22–22, 19–31
Pts: Nachbar 20
Rebs: Slokar 7
Asts: Dragić 7		 Pts: Mozgov 19
Rebs: Monia 7
Asts: Bykov 7
Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul
Attendance: 15,000
September 12
15:00
5th place
Report
Spain  81–86  Argentina
Scoring by quarter: 16–23, 16–26, 30–16, 19–21
Pts: Fernández 31
Rebs: M.Gasol 10
Asts: Navarro 3		 Pts: Delfino 27
Rebs: Scola 11
Asts: Prigioni 7
Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul
Attendance: 15,000

Semifinals

September 11
19:00
United States 89–74  Lithuania
Scoring by quarter: 23–12, 19–15, 23–26, 24–21
Pts: Durant 38
Rebs: Odom 10
Asts: Billups, Rose, Westbrook 3		 Pts: Javtokas 15
Rebs: Javtokas 9
Asts: Kalnietis, Mačiulis, Pocius, Delininkaitis 2
Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul
Attendance: 15,000
Referees: Carl Jungebrand (FIN), Sasa Pukl (SLO), Marcos Fornies Benito (BRA)
September 11
21:30
Serbia  82–83  Turkey
Scoring by quarter: 20–17, 22–18, 21–25, 19–23
Pts: Kešelj 18
Rebs: Krstić 7
Asts: Teodosić 11		 Pts: Türkoğlu 16
Rebs: Aşık 7
Asts: Tunçeri 5
Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul
Attendance: 15,000

Third–place game

September 12
19:00
Serbia  88–99  Lithuania
Scoring by quarter: 22–23, 16–25, 16–24, 34–27
Pts: Veličković 18
Rebs: Krstić 8
Asts: Rašić 10		 Pts: Kleiza 33
Rebs: Jasaitis 10
Asts: Kalnietis 5
Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul
Attendance: 15,000

Final

September 12
21:30
Turkey  64–81 United States
Scoring by quarter: 17–22, 15–20, 16–19, 16–20
Pts: Türkoğlu 16
Rebs: İlyasova 11
Asts: Tunçeri 5		 Pts: Durant 28
Rebs: Odom 11
Asts: Rose 6
Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul
Attendance: 15,000
Referees: Cristiano Jesus Maranho (BRA), Luigi Lamonica (ITA), Juan Arteaga (ESP)

Statistical leaders

Individual tournament highs


Points[18]

Pos. Name G Pts PPG
1 Argentina Luis Scola 9 244 27.1
2 United States Kevin Durant 9 205 22.8
3 Argentina Carlos Delfino 9 185 20.6
4 Lithuania Linas Kleiza 9 171 19
5 New Zealand Kirk Penney 6 148 24.7
6 Spain Juan Carlos Navarro 8 135 16.9
7 China Yi Jianlian 5 101 20.2
8 Iran Hamed Haddadi 5 100 20
9 Brazil Leandro Barbosa 6 97 16.2
10 Puerto Rico José Barea 5 84 16.8


Rebounds[19]

Pos. Name G Reb. RPG
1 Argentina Luis Scola 9 71 7.9
2 United States Lamar Odom 9 69 7.7
3 Turkey Ersan İlyasova 8 61 7.6
4 China Yi Jianlian 5 51 10.2
5 Serbia Nenad Krstić 6 45 7.5
6 Iran Hamed Haddadi 5 43 8.6
7 Jordan Zaid Abbas 5 42 8.4
8 Canada Levon Kendall 5 38 7.6
9 Iran Arsalan Kazemi 5 37 7.4
Australia David Andersen 5 37 7.4


Assists[20]

Pos. Name G Ass. APG
1 Argentina Pablo Prigioni 9 58 6.4
2 Spain Ricky Rubio 9 46 5.1
3 Russia Anton Ponkrashov 9 46 5.1
4 Serbia Miloš Teodosić 7 39 5.6
5 Slovenia Goran Dragić 9 37 4.1
6 Brazil Marcelinho Huertas 6 35 5.8
7 Jordan Osama Daghlas 5 28 5.6
8 Puerto Rico José Barea 5 27 5.4
9 Australia Patrick Mills 6 25 4.2



Steals[21]

8

10

Pos. Name G Stls SPG
1 Argentina Carlos Delfino 9 18 2
2 Argentina Pablo Prigioni 9 18 2
3 Turkey Sinan Güler 8 17 2.1
4 Iran Arsalan Kazemi 5 14 2.8
5 Lebanon Ali Mahmoud 5 13 2.6
6 Ivory Coast Mouloukou Diabate 5 12 2.4

7

Brazil Leandro Barbosa 6 12 2
China Sun Yue 6 12 2

9

Tunisia Makrem Ben Romdhane 4 8 2
Angola Olimpio Cipriano 4 8 2


Minutes[22]

Pos. Name G Min. MPG
1 Argentina Carlos Delfino 9 327 36.3
2 Argentina Luis Scola 9 323 35.9
3 China Liu Wei 5 180 36
4 Ivory Coast Mouloukou Diabate 5 177 35.4
5 China Yi Jianlian 5 175 35
6 Jordan Osama Daghlas 5 172 34.4
7 Jordan Rasheim Wright 5 169 33.8
8 Iran Hamed Haddadi 5 163 32.6
9 Iran Javad Davari 5 161 32.2
Lebanon Fadi El Khatib 5 161 32.2


Blocks[23]

Pos. Name G Blks BPG
1 Spain Marc Gasol 9 21 2.3
2 Ivory Coast Mamadou Lamizana 5 16 3.2
3 Spain Fran Vázquez 9 14 1.6
4 Iran Hamed Haddadi 5 13 2.6
5 Russia Sergey Monya 9 12 1.3
6 Tunisia Salah Mejri 5 11 2.2
7 Turkey Ömer Aşık 9 11 1.2
8 Russia Timofey Mozgov 9 9 1
9 Australia Matthew Nielsen 6 6 1

Individual game highs

Department Name Total Opponent
Points[24] United States Kevin Durant 38  Lithuania (9/11)
Rebounds[25] Angola Joaquim Gomes
Russia Sasha Kaun
Iran Arsalan Kazemi
China Yi Jianlian 		14  Germany (9/1) (OT)
 China (9/1)
 Slovenia (9/2)
 Greece (8/28)
Assists[26] Russia Anton Ponkrashov
Spain Ricky Rubio
Serbia Miloš Teodosić 		11  Puerto Rico (8/28)
 New Zealand (8/29)
 Turkey (9/11)
Steals[27] Turkey Sinan Güler 8  China (9/2)
Blocks[28] Iran Hamed Haddadi
Ivory Coast Herve Lamizana
Ivory Coast Herve Lamizana
Tunisia Salah Mejri 		5  Brazil (8/28)
 Puerto Rico (9/2)
 Turkey (8/28)
 Brazil (8/29)
Field goal percentage[29] Spain Fran Vázquez 100% (9/9)  Canada (9/2)
3-point field goal percentage[30] Turkey Ersan İlyasova 100% (6/6)  Greece (8/31)
Free throw percentage[31] Russia Anton Ponkrashov 100% (10/10)  Puerto Rico (8/28)
Turnovers[32] United States Kevin Durant 7  Brazil (8/30)

Team tournament highs

Offensive PPG[33]

Pos. Name PPG
1 United States 92.8
2 Spain 88.9
3 Argentina 85.2
4 Lithuania 83.3
5 Serbia 82.9

Defensive PPG

Pos. Name PPG
1 United States 65.9
2 Russia 68.2
3 Turkey 71.3
4 France 71.3
5 Australia 72.3

Rebounds[34]

Pos. Name RPG
1 United States 41.7
2 Greece 40.4
3 Lithuania 37.8
4 Serbia 37.2
5 Puerto Rico 37

Assists[35]

Pos. Name APG
1 United States 18.2
 Spain 18.2
3 Russia 18.1
4 Turkey 16.6
5 Serbia 16

Steals[36]

Pos. Name SPG
1 United States 10.4
2  Turkey 8.4
3  Brazil 8.2
4  Lebanon 8.1
5  Ivory Coast 7.8

Blocks[37]

Pos. Name BPG
1 United States 4.9
2 Spain 4.8
3 Russia 4
4 Lebanon 3.8
5 Ivory Coast 3.4

Team game highs

Department Name Total Opponent
Points[38] United States 121  Angola (9/6)
Rebounds[39] United States
 Lithuania 		50  Slovenia (8/29)
 China (9/7)
Assists[40] United States 30  Angola (9/6)
Steals[41]  Turkey
United States 		15  Ivory Coast (8/28)
 Brazil (8/30)
Blocks[42]  Spain 9  Canada (9/2)
Field goal percentage[43]  Turkey 66.7% (32/48)  Slovenia (9/8)
3-point field goal percentage[44]  Argentina 61.1% (11/18)  Brazil (9/7)
Free throw percentage[45] United States 100.0% (10/10)  Tunisia (9/2)
Turnovers[46]  Iran
 Jordan 		25 United States (9/1)
 Angola (8/29)

Final rankings

Flag of the top three teams at the medal ceremony

Method of breaking ties:

Rank Team Record
1 United States 9–0
2  Turkey 8–1
Eliminated in Semi-Finals
3  Lithuania 8–1
4  Serbia 6–3
Eliminated in Quarter-Finals
5  Argentina 7–2
6  Spain 5–4
7  Russia 6–3
8  Slovenia 5–4
Eliminated in Eighth-Finals Preliminary Round Points Average
9  Brazil 3–3 1.124
10  Australia 3–3 1.117
11  Greece 3–3 1.089
12  New Zealand 3–3 1.060
13  France 3–3 1.035
14  Croatia 2–4 0.971
15  Angola 2–4 0.821
16  China 1–5
Fifth place in Preliminary Round groups Preliminary Round Points Average
17  Germany 2–3
18  Puerto Rico 1–4 0.963
19  Iran 1–4 0.820
20  Lebanon 1–4 0.770
Sixth place in Preliminary Round groups Preliminary Round Points Average
21  Ivory Coast 1–4 0.800
22  Canada 0–5 0.871
23  Jordan 0–5 0.809
24  Tunisia 0–5 0.737

Awards

Kevin Durant was named MVP
 2010 FIBA World Championship Winner 

United States
4th title
Most Valuable Player
United States Kevin Durant

All-Tournament Team

Referees

On August 18, 2010, FIBA named the forty referees that officiated at the tournament.[47] Below are the referees, along with the first round group that each was assigned to:

  • Group B
    •  TUR Recep Ankaralı
    •  LTU Romualdas Brazauskas
    •  FRA David Chambon
    •  GRC Christos Christodoulou
    •  JPN Yuji Hirahara
    •  AGO Carlos José Julio
    •  ESP José Martín
    •  COL José Hernán Melgarejo Pinto
    •  DOM Reynaldo Antonio Mercedes Sánchez
    •  CAN Stephen Seibel
  • Group C
    •  SRB Ilija Belošević
    •  AUS Scott Jason Butler
    •  LBN Marwan Egho
    •  ARG Pablo Alberto Estévez
    •  KEN Vitalis Odhiambo Gode
    •  FIN Carl Jungebrand
    •  BRA Cristiano Jesus Maranho
    •  SVN Saša Pukl
    •  PRT Fernando Rocha
    •  VEN Héctor Sánchez
  • Group D
    •  IRN Heros Avanessian
    •  AUS Michael Aylen
    •  USA Anthony Dewayne Jordan
    •  HRV Srđan Dožai
    •  ARG Juan José Fernández
    •  SRB Milivoje Jovčić
    •  ITA Luigi Lamonica
    •  UKR Borys Ryschyk
    •  PUR Jorge Vázquez
    •  POL Jakub Zamojski

Broadcasting

Rights

FIBA announced that the championship will be shown in 183 countries, beating the record set be the 2006 championship which was 132. Countries that aired the championship for the first time were India and the United Kingdom, while Canada covered the event for the first time since hosting the 1994 FIBA World Championship.[48]

TV ratings

According to FIBA secretary general Patrick Baumann, the TV ratings for the 2010 championship exceeded the 2006 FIBA World Championship's and the FIBA EuroBasket 2009 numbers, with an expected audience of 800 million people in 200 countries, while 30 million people visited the official website.[49]

The preliminary round game between China and Greece was watched by around 65 million Chinese.

The U.S. TV ratings for the Final between the U.S. and Turkey, on the other hand, was watched by less than 900,000 viewers in American cable network ESPN, worse than the average audience of the broadcast of the 2009-10 NBA season, but double than the airing of the first game of the 2010 WNBA Finals on its sister terrestrial network ABC which was aired on the same timeslot.[50]

List of broadcasters

TV broadcasters[51]

See also

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