Vlade Divac, Yi Jianlian and Ian Mahinmi headline thirty third FIBA Intercontinental Cup Attract Singapore

MIES (Switzerland) – The draw for the thirty third FIBA Intercontinental Cup takes place on Tuesday, June 20, on the ArtScience Museum in Singapore – the host metropolis for the basketball occasion being staged on the finish of September.

The Draw will get underway at 4:30 pm native time.

Along with six golf equipment from all over the world discovering their paths to Intercontinental Cup glory, worldwide stars Vlade Divac (Serbia), Yi Jianlian (China) and Ian Mahinmi (France) shall be current on the Draw. All three males have represented their nations on the FIBA Basketball World Cup through the years, with Divac successful the competitors twice.

Groups competing on the FIBA Intercontinental Cup are Basketball Champions League winners Telekom Baskets Bonn, Basketball Champions League Americas winners Sesi Franca, Basketball Africa League champions Al Ahly and NBA G League Ignite.

Representing the Chinese language Basketball Affiliation, Zhejiang Golden Bulls would be the fifth workforce, and Al Manama from Bahrain, winner of the FIBA West Asia Tremendous League, acquired an invite to finish the line-up.

On the Draw, groups will find yourself in two teams. Every workforce can have two video games in the Group Part of the competitors. The Group Part will happen from September 21 to 23.

On the finish of the Group Part, a final day of competitors shall be held on September 24, with groups that got here in first of their respective teams squaring off within the Remaining.

There will even be a Third-Place Recreation between the groups that had been runners-up in group play and likewise a battle between the groups that had been third within the teams to find out fifth place.

The Draw could be adopted dwell on FIBA’s YouTube channel.

FIBA and Sport Singapore have agreed to a three-year partnership, introduced earlier this yr, that has expanded the occasion additionally to contain Asia for the primary time and higher replicate the trendy membership basketball panorama.

The Singapore Indoor Stadium on the Singapore Sports activities Hub would be the first-ever venue in Asia to host the FIBA Intercontinental Cup.

By being held in September, the competitors adapts higher to the calendars of the home and continental leagues, and the schedule of worldwide gamers, and higher accommodates taking part golf equipment.

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