The Cuba men's national basketball team (Spanish: Selección masculina de baloncesto de Cuba) represents Cuba at international competitions. It won the bronze medal at 1972 Summer Olympics and finished in 4th place at the 1974 FIBA World Championship. It is the only team from the Caribbean to win a medal at a major global event.
Competitive record Olympics YearPositionTournamentHost 1948 13th Basketball at the 1948 Summer Olympics London, United Kingdom 1952 9th Basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics Helsinki, Finland 1968 11th Basketball at the 1968 Summer Olympics Mexico City, Mexico 1972 (3rd place) Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics Munich, West Germany 1976 7th Basketball at the 1976 Summer Olympics Montreal, Canada 1980 6th Basketball at the 1980 Summer Olympics Moscow, Soviet Union
Friendship Games YearPositionTournamentHost 1984 (3rd place) Basketball at the Friendship Games Moscow, Soviet Union
FIBA World Cup YearPositionTournamentHost 1970 8th 1970 FIBA World Championship Yugoslavia 1974 4th 1974 FIBA World Championship Puerto Rico 1986 11th 1986 FIBA World Championship Spain 1994 15th 1994 FIBA World Championship Canada
FIBA AmeriCup YearPositionTournamentHost 1980 6th 1980 Tournament of the Americas San Juan, Puerto Rico 1984 8th 1984 Tournament of the Americas São Paulo, Brazil 1989 7th 1989 Tournament of the Americas Mexico City, Mexico 1992 8th 1992 Tournament of the Americas Portland, United States 1993 5th 1993 Tournament of the Americas San Juan, Puerto Rico 1995 5th 1995 Tournament of the Americas Tucumán, Argentina 1997 6th 1997 FIBA Americas Championship Montevideo, Uruguay 1999 10th 1999 FIBA Americas Championship San Juan, Puerto Rico 2011 10th 2011 FIBA Americas Championship Mar del Plata, Argentina 2015 10th 2015 FIBA Americas Championship Mexico City, Mexico
Pan American Games
Centrobasket
Caribebasket
Current roster
Past roster Roster for the 2015 FIBA Americas Championship.
Depth chart
Head coach position Daniel Scott: 2001–2011 Leonardo Perez: 2012–2014 Daniel Scott: 2015–2017 Yoanis Zaldivar: 2017 José "Pepe" Ramírez: 2017-2019 Eduardo Moya: 2020-present
Past rosters 1948 Olympic Games: finished 13th among 23 teams
Alfredo "Bebo" Faget, Francisco "Frank" Lavernia, Raúl García Ordóñez, Federico "Fico" López, Casimiro García Artime, Juan García, José Llanusa, Ramón Wiltz, Mario Agüero, Joaquín Agüero, Mario Quintero, Fabio Ruiz, Llaneras Rodríguez, Otero Vázquez, José Miguel Álvarez Pozo
1952 Olympic Games: finished 14th among 23 teams
Alfredo "Bebo" Faget, Carlos García Ordóñez, Federico "Fico" López, Juan García, Casimiro García Artime, Ramón Wiltz, Mario Quintero, Fabio Ruiz, Mario Agüero, Felipe de la Pozas y Piad, Carlos Bea, Armando Estrada Rivero, Alberto Escoto Valdés
1968 Olympic Games: finished 11th among 16 teams
Ruperto Herrera Tabio, Pedro Chappe Garcia, Franklin Standard, Rafael Cañizares, Conrado Pérez, Pablo García, Cesar Valdés, Cuesta, Jacinto González, Miguel Montalvo, Miguel Calderón Gómez, Carlos del Pozo (Coach: Stepas Butautas)
1970 World Championship: finished 8th among 13 teams
Ruperto Herrera Tabio, Pedro Chappe Garcia, Franklin Standard, Conrado Pérez, Tomás Herrera Martínez, Rafael Cañizares, Juan Domecq, Miguel Álvarez Pozo, Alejandro Urgelles Guibot, Oscar Varona Varona, Miguel Calderón Gómez, Francisco Varona (Coach: Stepas Butautas)
1972 Olympic Games: finished 3rd among 16 teams
Ruperto Herrera Tabio, Pedro Chappe Garcia, Juan Domecq, Franklin Standard, Alejandro Urgelles Guibot, Rafael Cañizares, Oscar Varona Varona, Tomás Herrera Martínez, Miguel Álvarez Pozo, Miguel Calderón Gómez, Juan Roca Brunet, Conrado Pérez (Coach: Juan Carmelo Ortega Díaz)
1974 World Championship: finished 4th among 14 teams
Ruperto Herrera Tabio, Pedro Chappe Garcia, Miguel Álvarez Pozo, Tomás Herrera Martínez, Juan Domecq, Oscar Varona Varona, Miguel Calderón Gómez, Alejandro Urgelles Guibot, Rafael Cañizares, Conrado Pérez, Juan Roca Brunet, Alejandro Lázaro Ortiz (Coach: Juan Carmelo Ortega Díaz)
1976 Olympic Games: finished 7th among 12 teams
Ruperto Herrera Tabio, Pedro Chappe Garcia, Juan Domecq, Tomás Herrera Martínez, Oscar Varona Varona, Félix Morales, Alejandro Urgelles Guibot, Daniel Scott, Rafael Cañizares, Juan Roca Brunet, Alejandro Lázaro Ortiz, Ángel Padrón (Coach: Juan Carmelo Ortega Díaz)
1980 Olympic Games: finished 6th among 12 teams
Ruperto Herrera Tabio, Tomás Herrera Martínez, Miguel Calderón Gómez, Félix Morales, Daniel Scott, Alejandro Urgelles Guibot, Alejandro Lázaro Ortiz, Raúl Dubois, Pedro Abreu, Jorge More, Generoso Márquez, Noangel Luaces (Coach: Pedro Chappe Garcia)
1986 World Championship: finished 11th among 24 teams
Daniel Scott, Félix Morales, Raúl Dubois, Pedro Abreu, Luis Calderón, Noangel Luaces, Eduardo Cabrera, Luciano Rivero, Roberto Simón Salomón, Leonardo Pérez, José Carlos Caballero, Pedro Cobarrubia (Coach: Juan Carmelo Ortega Díaz)
1994 World Championship: finished 15th among 16 teams
Richard Matienzo, Leonardo Pérez, Lazaro Borrell, Roberto Carlos Herrera, Roberto Simón Salomón, Ángel Oscar Caballero, Augusto Duquesne, Ulises Goire, José Luis Díaz, Juan Leopoldo Vázquez, Edel Casanova, Yudit Abreu (Coach: Miguel Calderón Gómez)
See also Cuba women's national basketball team Cuba national under-19 basketball team Cuba national under-17 basketball team Cuba national 3x3 team Legionarios del Baloncesto Cubano
References
External links Latinbasket.com - Cuba Men National Team Cuba Sport - Basketball FIBA Profile Cuba Basketball Records at FIBA Archive
Videos Cuba v Venezuela - Game Highlights - Group B - 2015 FIBA Americas Championship Youtube.com video