From Tuesday, basketball returns to the fields with the pre-Olympic tournaments. From the four corners of the planet, 24 teams will be competing to snatch one of the last four tickets for the Paris Olympic Games. These four tournaments will take place from July 2 to 7, in Athens (Greece), Riga (Latvia), Valencia (Spain) and San Juan (Puerto Rico).
In Piraeus, two superstars will be on the courts since Giannis Antetokounmpo And Luka Doncic are among the rosters registered for the competition. Greece coach Vassilis Spanoulis has parted ways with Michalis Lountzis and Nikos Chougkaz, and here is the list of 12: Kostas Papanikolaou, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Nick Calathes, Dinos Mitoglou, Thomas Walkup, Giannoulis Larentzakis, George Papagiannis, Kostas Antetokounmpo, Panagiotis Kalaitzakis, Vassilis Charalambopoulos, Vassilis Toliopoulos and Dimitris Moraitis.
For Slovenia, here are the twelve selected : Luka Doncic, Aleksej Nikolic, Klemen Prepelic, Edo Muric, Josh Nebo, Gregor Hrovat, Miha Cerkvenik, Luka Scuka, Ziga Dimec, Zoran Dragic, Vlatko Cancar and Leon Stergar. We note the great return to competition of Vlatko Cancar, and the first time of Josh Nebo as a naturalized player.
For Greece, it will be necessary to finish in one of the first two places in a group where it will face the Dominican Republic and Egypt, before meeting the two best teams in a group composed of Slovenia, Croatia and New Zealand.
