1998 FIBA World Championship

Infobox FIBA tourney
continent = World
year = 1998

size = 100
caption = Official logo of the 1998 FIBA World Championship
host = Greece
dates = July 29 – August 9
teams = 16
federations = ?
venues = 2
cities = 1
champions = FR Yugoslavia
title_number = 1
mvp = flagicon|FR Yugoslavia Dejan Bodiroga
ppg_p = flagicon|ESP Alberto Herreros (17.88)
ppg_t = bk|USA (82.10)
rpg_p = flagicon|PUR José Ortiz (10.5)
rpg_t = bk|NGR (37.4)
apg_p = flagicon|AUS Shane Heal (4.5)
apg_t = bk|ARG (13.10)
website = [http://www.fiba.com/pages/en/events/competition/p/competitioncode/WMM/lang/En/roundid/2914/season/1998/latest_results.html 1998 FIBA World Championship] The 1998 FIBA World Championship was an international basketball tournament held by the International Basketball Federation in Athens, Greece. Because of the National Basketball Association lockout and unlike the previous championship, the USA Basketball Association was unable to send a team comprised from NBA players, thus causing the American national team roster to be comprised out of professional basketball players playing in Europe and three college players. [ [http://www.usabasketball.com/news.php?news_page=mwc_1998 1998 USA Basketball] ]

Venues

Group Β

Group D

Group F

All-Tournament Team

* Vasili Karasev
* Alberto Herreros
* Dejan Bodiroga
* Gregor Fučka
* Željko Rebrača

Top scorers (ppg)

# Alberto Herreros 17.8
# Arturas Karnisovas 17.1
# Shane Heal 17
# Andrew Gaze 16.8
# Jose "Piculin" Ortiz 16.5
# Maikeru Takahashi 16.4
# Vasili Karasev 16.1
# Seo Jang-Hoon 15.2
# Dejan Bodiroga 14.6
# Orlando Vega 14.1

Final standings

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Team rosters

1. FR Yugoslavia: Dejan Bodiroga, Željko Rebrača, Aleksandar Đorđević, Dejan Tomašević, Predrag Drobnjak, Saša Obradović, Nikola Lončar, Vlado Šćepanović, Miroslav Berić, Milenko Topić, Dragan Lukovski, Nikola Bulatović (Coach: Željko Obradović)

2. Russia: Vasili Karasev, Sergei Babkov, Mikhail Mikhailov, Valeri Tikhonenko, Nikita Morgunov, Sergei Panov, Evgeni Kisurin, Vitali Nosov, Igor Kudelin, Zakhar Pashutin, Dimitri Domani, Igor Kurashov (Coach: Sergei Belov)

3. USA: Trajan Langdon, Wendell Alexis, Michael Hawkins, Brad Miller, Bill Edwards, Ashraf Amaya, Jimmy Oliver, Gerard King, Kiwane Garris, Jason Sasser, Jimmy King, David Wood (Coach: Rudy Tomjanovich)

4. Greece: Panagiotis Fassoulas, Nikos Ekonomou, Fragiskos Alvertis, Efthimis Rentzias, Iakovos Tsakalidis, Giorgos Sigalas, Aggelos Koronios, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Nikos Boudouris, Giorgos Kalaitzis, Giorgos Balogiannis, Giorgos Karagoutis (Coach: Panagiotis Giannakis)

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