2024 Olympics Basketball Tournament Draw: Team USA grouped with Serbia

The best basketball teams in the
world now know their opponents in this year’s Paris Olympics Games
after the groups were determined in the Olympic Basketball
Tournament Draw on Tuesday at the Patrick Baumann House of
Basketball in Mies, Switzerland.

A total of 12 nations will
compete in the Men’s Olympic Basketball Tournament
in Paris, which is scheduled to run
from July 27 to August 10. There are currently eight national teams
from five different continents that have already qualified either
as the host nation or based on their respective results at
the 2023
FIBA Basketball World Cup.

The remaining four tickets will
be punched by the winners of the FIBA Olympic Qualifying
Tournaments (OQTs) that will be held between July 2 and 7 in

Piraeus (Greece),
Riga (Latvia),
San Juan (Puerto Rico) and
Valencia (Spain).

Aiming to win their
fifth-straight Olympic Basketball gold medal, undisputed
favorite Team USA is slated to be in Group C along with 2016
silver medallists Serbia, Africa’s best finishing team in the 2023 FIBA
World Cup South Sudan, and the winner of the OQT in Puerto
Rico.

Host nation
France was drawn
into Group B with FIBA World Champions
Germany, Asia’s
best-finishing team in the 2023 FIBA World Cup
Japan, and
thewinner of the OQT in Latvia.

Finally, 2021 bronze
medallists Australia, 2023 FIBA World Cup bronze medallists
Canada, and
the winners of the OQTs in Greece and Spain are grouped in Group A.

Women’s basketball legend Penny
Taylor and NBA legend Carmelo Anthony helped in administering the
draw.

The Olympic Basketball
Tournament Draw had the teams divided into four pots based on the
FIBA World Ranking. In each of the final three groups drawn, there
was a minimum of two and a maximum of three teams from Europe. For
Africa, the Americas, Asia and Oceania, there had to be no more
than one team per continent in each group.

You can watch the full draw
below: