The 2010 FIBA World Championship was the 16th FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship contested by the men's national teams. The tournament ran from 28 August to 12 September 2010. It was co-organised by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), Turkish Basketball Federation and the 2010 Organising Committee. It was considered as prestigious a competition as the Olympic Basketball Tournament. The tournament was hosted by Turkey.

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 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 15 December 2009 in Istanbul.Draw at turkey2010.fiba.com 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.Competition Format at turkey2010.fiba.com

Bid +2010 FIBA World Championship bidding results Nations Round 1 Round 2 Turkey France Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro and Slovenia

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 5 December 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.

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.

TurkeyIstanbulPreliminary roundKnockout stageAnkaraİzmirKayseriIstanbul Ankara ArenaCapacity: 11,000 Halkapınar Sport HallCapacity: 10,000 Kadir Has ArenaCapacity: 7,500Abdi İpekçi ArenaCapacity: 12,500Sinan Erdem DomeCapacity: 16,500 (22,500)

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.Wild card Criteria at turkey2010.fiba.com 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.Additional Info about Wild cards at turkey2010.fiba.com

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.FIBA Wild Cards: It's Down to Eight at Interbasket.net On Saturday 12 December 2009, FIBA awarded Germany, Lebanon, Lithuania and Russia the four wild cards.

List of qualified teams

The following 24 teams qualified for the final tournament (FIBA World Ranking at start of tournament in parentheses): EventDateLocationBerthsQualifiedHost nation5 December 2004 Kuala Lumpur12008 Olympics10–24 August 2008 Beijing1AfroBasket 20094–14 August 2009 Tripoli and Benghazi32009 FIBA Asia Championship6–16 August 2009 Tianjin3FIBA Oceania Championship 2009 23–25 August 2009 Sydney Wellington22009 FIBA Americas Championship26 August–6 September 2009 San Juan4EuroBasket 20097–20 September 20096Wild cards12 December 2009 Istanbul4 TOTAL 24

The draw for the championship took place in Istanbul on 15 December 2009.

Group draw

The draw was held on 15 December 2009 at the Ciragan Palace Kempinski Hotel in Istanbul, which 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

Squads

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

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. 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. 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

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: Game results between tied teams Goal average between games of the tied teams Goal average for all games of the tied teams Drawing of lots

Group A (Kayseri)

28 August 2010 76–75 Kadir Has Arena, Kayseri 44–94 Kadir Has Arena 74–78 Kadir Has Arena29 August 2010 65–79 Kadir Has Arena 81–82 2OT Kadir Has Arena 74–72 Kadir Has Arena30 August 2010 69–112 Kadir Has Arena 78–43 Kadir Has Arena 70–91 Kadir Has Arena1 September 2010 94–79 Kadir Has Arena 88–92 OT Kadir Has Arena 88–79 Kadir Has Arena2 September 2010 55–76 Kadir Has Arena 82–84 Kadir Has Arena 73–91 Kadir Has Arena

Group B (Istanbul)

28 August 2010 56–80 Abdi İpekçi Arena, IstanbulUnited States 106–78 Abdi İpekçi Arena 65–81 Abdi İpekçi Arena29 August 2010 77–99 United States Abdi İpekçi Arena 75–54 Abdi İpekçi Arena 80–65 Abdi İpekçi Arena30 August 2010 91–84 Abdi İpekçi Arena 58–71 Abdi İpekçi Arena 70–68 Abdi İpekçi Arena1 September 2010 84–64 Abdi İpekçi Arena 51–88 United States Abdi İpekçi Arena 77–80 Abdi İpekçi Arena2 September 2010 92–57 Abdi İpekçi Arena 65–60 Abdi İpekçi Arena 92–74 Abdi İpekçi Arena

Group C (Ankara)

28 August 2010 89–81 Ankara Arena 75–66 Ankara Arena 47–86 Ankara Arena29 August 2010 83–73 Ankara Arena 80–83 Ankara Arena 65–56 Ankara Arena31 August 2010 72–66 Ankara Arena 84–76 Ankara Arena 65–76 Ankara Arena1 September 2010 80–89 Ankara Arena 60–97 Ankara Arena 79–77 Ankara Arena2 September 2010 79–88 Ankara Arena 69–73 Ankara Arena 87–40 Ankara Arena

Group D (Izmir)

28 August 2010 79–92 Halkapınar Sport Hall, İzmir 71–81 Halkapınar Sport Hall 72–66 Halkapınar Sport Hall29 August 2010 70–68 Halkapınar Sport Hall 59–86 Halkapınar Sport Hall 101–84 Halkapınar Sport Hall31 August 2010 108–76 Halkapınar Sport Hall 68–63 Halkapınar Sport Hall 73–76 Halkapınar Sport Hall1 September 2010 61–71 Halkapınar Sport Hall 57–91 Halkapınar Sport Hall 69–55 Halkapınar Sport Hall2 September 2010 89–67 Halkapınar Sport Hall 66–84 Halkapınar Sport Hall 82–70 Halkapınar Sport Hall

Final round (Istanbul)

Round of 16

Quarterfinals

5th–8th classification

Semifinals

Seventh place playoff

Fifth place playoff

Semifinals

Third place playoff

Final

Statistical leaders

Individual tournament highs

Points Pos. Name G Pts 1 Luis Scola 9 244 27.1 2 Kirk Penney 6 148 24.7 3 Kevin Durant 9 205 22.8 4 Carlos Delfino 9 185 20.6 5 Yi Jianlian 5 101 20.2 6 Hamed Haddadi 5 100 20 7 Linas Kleiza 9 171 19 8 Juan Carlos Navarro 8 135 16.9 9 José Barea 5 84 16.8 10 Leandro Barbosa 6 97 16.2

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

Assists