Basketball World 2002, a U.S. victory over fifth place worth

The basketball World 2002 took place in Indianapolis, home of the Indiana Pacers of the NBA, with the intention to gather a large crowd of basketball. Unfortunately, the Yankees are his own and did not pay much attention to sports in the basket in international version.

The design of the championship was based on two group stages, one of which consisted of four teams and the next six (like the current European). In the first phase were classified three, while the second, four, to form the quarterfinals.

The Spanish team was already more established, with its golden boys strengthened. Pau Gasol and Raul Lopez had been elected in the NBA draft a year earlier, but the misfortune was that Raul Lopez was injured for a year and could not debut for the Jazz until a year later.

In the group stage, Spain remedied without problems, your first encounter with Angola, beat Canada, and exceeded the vibrant game (71-69) to Yugoslavia, who will play the last tournament as a single computer. He becomes the second round undefeated, and this only lose to Puerto Rico, Carlos Arroyo in the lead by eight points. In Brazil and Turkey beat them, making sure of second place, to fight against Germany and usher in the semifinals.

But Germany fell us sleep in one fell swoop, we lost 70-62 and we turned for home but not before playing the "semi-finals of the losers", fighting for fifth place. There, our boys won the United States.