Sport in Berlin

MIES - Serbia is one of 11 candidates to host the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023, the FIBA website said.

Apart from Serbia, Argentina, Australia, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Philippines, Poland, Russia and Turkey also made their bids.

Basketball team of SerbiaPhoto: FIBA

MIES - Serbia is one of 11 candidates to host the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023, the FIBA website said.

Apart from Serbia, Argentina, Australia, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Philippines, Poland, Russia and Turkey also made their bids.

The Serbian men's national basketball team is through to the EuroBasket 2015 semi-finals after beating the Czech Republic 89-75 (21-21, 24-21, 22-21, 22-12)

The quarter-final game was played late on Wednesday in Lille, France.

A tough test awaits Turkey on Sept. 12 at Eurobasket 2015 when it takes on title favorite France, led by all-time Eurobasket top scorer Tony Parker, for a quarterfinal berth.

The "12 Giant Men" finished Group B fourth after a 111-102 victory in overtime against Iceland on Sept. 10 to set up the Round of 16 clash with France in Lille.

Turkey beat Italy 89-87 in its first Group B phase game in EuroBasket 2015 Sept. 5.

Turkey completed the first quarter 13 points ahead (26-13), while the second and third quarters ended 25-29, and 15-19, respectively with Italy four points ahead in each.

16 days if Eurobasket kicked off on Saturday with six days of group play at several European locations before the action is transferred to Lille, France.
Group play will be split between Berlin (Germany), Zagreb (Croatia), Riga (Latvia) and Montpellier (France).

Group A

The Greek national baseball team, as expected did the job and comfortably disposed of the lowly rated fYRoM team in its opening Group C match of the 2015 Eurobasket competition 85-65, in Zagreb Croatia. The Greek ‘big’ men dominated in the paint, as Bourousis and Printezis shared over 30 points between them, while the Greeks also had 23 assists.

Romania's women's team lost by 76-67 (20-18, 17-22, 17-20, 22-7) to European vice champion France a match in the Group A of the European Basketball Championship on Sunday, in the Constantin Jude Sports Hall of Timisoara.Romania and Hungary are co-hosts of EuroBasket 2015.AGERPRES

PARIS - The Serbian men's national basketball team has been drawn to play in EuroBasket 2015 Group B in Berlin, and will take on Spain, Turkey, Italy, Iceland and hosts Germany.

The draw ceremony took place at Disneyland Paris on Monday.