Aleksa Avramovic

PARIS - The Serbia men's national basketball team has failed to qualify for the final of the Paris Olympics after a 95-91 (23-31, 20-23, 20-22, 32-15) semi-final defeat to the USA on Thursday evening.

Bogdan Bogdanovic led the scoring for Serbia with 20 points, Nikola Jokic followed with 17 points and 11 assists and Aleksa Avramovic added 15 points.

PARIS, Aug 6 (Tanjug) - Serbia is through to the semi-finals of the men's basketball tournament at the Paris Olympics after a 95-90 overtime win against Australia on Tuesday.

Australia got off to a much better start to the encounter and, midway through the first half, Serbia was trailing by 24 points, yet managed to win the game, which ended 82-82 in regular time.

LILLE - The Serbia men's national basketball team lost 110-84 to the USA in a Group C Round 1 game of the Olympic tournament in Lille on Sunday evening.

Serbia got off to an excellent start, developing a 10-2 lead, but the USA responded with an 11-0 run and won the first quarter 25-20.

BELGRADE - The Serbia men's national basketball team defeated Greece 94-72 at the Belgrade Arena on Monday evening in the last test before the Olympic Games.

Captain Bogdan Bogdanovic led the scoring for Serbia with 19 points, Nikola Jokic scored 16 points and Filip Petrusev, Nikola Milutinov and Nikola Jovic added 15, 11 and 10 points, respectively.

ABU DHABI - The Serbia men's national basketball team lost 84-73 to Australia at a pre-Olympic tournament in Abu Dhabi.

Patty Mills led Australia to victory with 28 points and Dante Exum added 15.

Filip Petrusev stood out for Serbia with 17 points, Nikola Jokic scored 14 points and 14 rebounds and Nikola Milutinov and Aleksa Avramovic each added 12 points.

BELGRADE - The head coach of the Serbia men's national basketball team Svetislav Pesic on Monday announced his preliminary squad list for the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris, which includes NBA MVP Nikola Jokic.

The 16-player list is as follows:

BELGRADE - Defending champions Red Star Belgrade defeated arch-rivals Partizan 89-88 at home in Game 1 of the play-off final series of the Serbian basketball Super League on Monday evening.

At a packed Aleksandar Nikolic Hall, Dejan Davidovac led the scoring for Red Star with 23 points and Yago dos Santos added 18.

BELGRADE - Red Star Belgrade have claimed their seventh title in the regional basketball ABA League by completing a 3-0 sweep of arch-rivals Partizan in a best-of-five playoffs final series with a 82-76 away win at the Belgrade Arena on Sunday evening.

The Game 3 victory was Red Star's sixth consecutive win over Partizan across all competitions.

TBILISI - Serbia beat Georgia 76-63 in a EuroBasket 2025 Qualifiers Group G Game Day 2 encounter in Tbilisi on Monday evening.

Marko Guduric led Serbia to victory with 16 points and Vanja Marinkovic, Aleksa Avramovic and Filip Petrusev added 15, 12 and 11 points, respectively.

Tornike Shengelia stood out for Georgia with 17 points and Joe Thomasson added 15 points.

NIS - Partizan Belgrade are through to the semi-finals of Serbia's Radivoj Korac Cup after beating Serbian League outfit Hercegovac Gajdobra 92-67 in the quarter-finals of the cup finals tournament in Nis on Thursday evening.

Partizan will next face Vojvodina Novi Sad, who beat Mega 100-92 on Thursday.