Which country is actual world champion in basketball?
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The winner of the World Championships in 2002 in the USA was the Republic of Yugoslavia, which posted an 84-77 win over Argentina.\n\nYugoslavia, now called Serbia and Montenegro, has been granted a wild card berth into the 2006 tournament in Japan, which will be played in August and September.\n\nSerbia and Montenegro is in Pool A, along with Argentina, France, Lebanon, Nigeria and Venezuela.
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Argentina\nBrazil\nEspaña\nItalia\nGermany\nPortugal\nUK\nFrance\nPoland\nMexico\nUruguay\ndo you want me to go on? actually US is one of the little ones where it is not... you keep on living with your own three sports which only basketball is quite international...
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The team that holds the championship title is from Germany. Check this out:\n\nhttp://worldswatchallenge.com/Welcome.htm\n\nScroll down for official standings in the SWAT world challenge 2006. Enjoy!
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(m)\n\nBrazil  have won the world title for a record fifth time after beating three-time winners Germany 2-0 in the final - Ronaldo was scorer of both goals and has won the Golden Boot Award.
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dunk champion: Gerald Green\n3 pt champion- Ray Allen\nskills champion: steve nash\nsophomores win with chris paul mvp\nwest wins with Yao Ming mvp
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There were four Europeans in the NBA (or the BAA as it was called then) during its first year of existence in 1947:\n\nFrido Frey - Germany\nLee Knorek - Poland\nHank Beenders - Netherlands\nHank Biasatti - Italy\n\nThe Bulgarian player you're thinking of might be Georgi Glouchkov, who played in 1986, which was also the first year for Germany's Detlef Schrempf and Uwe Blab.
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The Detroit Pistons, after defeating the Lakers won the championships
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Basketball is mostly popular in america and a bit in some countries but soccer is loved worldwide so soccer wins the battle.
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Turkey. Has to be Turkey. They almost won it like 20 years in a row. Or maybe Brazil.
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Because it is fun to play and watch. It is also pretty easy to learn- bounce the ball, put it in the hoop. It came from Canada, so technically it was exported to the US. Russia always is good in basketball too. They won the olympics in the 80's and Kiralenko and other Russians are still playing well in the league. Now a days there is an influx of basketball players arcoss the globe. NBA multiple players from Brazil, Argentina, Yugoslavia, France, Spain, Nigeria, Sudan, Austrailia, Turkey, China, just to name a few. It's almost everywhere.
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C'est en 1981 que la NBA décide d'introduire la ligne à 3 points afin de rendre le jeu plus spectaculaire en élargissant le périmètre défensif. La règle sera adoptée en Europe en 1984.
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http://www.basketball.net.au/fs_home_ba.asp\n\nThey were defeated by Canada. 65 to 49.
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No current NBA players participated in the 1976 Summer Games. FIBA allowed professional athletes to play in international competition for the first time in 1989 and the next Olympics was in '92.
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No, Manu comes to the nba from the Kinder of Bologna, of italy and before he plays in argentina
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The Boston Celtics, win 16 NBA titles.\n\nThe LA Lakers have been to the most NBA finals however, making it to the final stage 28 times, although they only won the title 14 times.\n\nThe Celtics in the time of Bill Russell was the greatest dynasty in NBA history, winning 10 titles in 11 years between 1959 and 1969.
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Yes he was, he played in the finals with Germany against Greece. They lost in that year and got second place. He even made the Europe all star team, along with T. Parker and A. Kirilenko
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Manute Bol, who is from Sudan, played in the NBA at about 7-7.  He is considered the tallest man ever in the league, just above Gheorge Muresan.  While he was more of a show than anything, he blocked many shots, and could hit from outside.  He wasn't heavy, though, and thus got manhandled a lot in the paint.  He has since traveled around the world, and now lives in Connecticut :)