{"id":96104,"date":"2025-08-26T02:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T02:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/96104\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T02:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T02:29:12","slug":"eurobasket-2025-every-nba-player-set-to-suit-up-in-european-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/96104\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroBasket 2025: Every NBA player set to suit up in European Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2025 FIBA EuroBasket Championship<\/a> is set to tip off on Wednesday as 24 teams begin the group phase of the tournament across four cities through Sept. 5.<\/p>\n

The preliminary round of the 42nd edition of the flagship event will take place in Cyprus, Finland, Latvia and Poland, with teams placed into four groups of six. The top four teams after five games will advance to the round of 16, beginning on Sept. 6.<\/p>\n

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Related Thunder rookie Nikola Topic\u0301 cut from Serbia’s roster ahead of EuroBasket 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

The knockout phase will be hosted in Latvia, culminating with the semifinals on Sept. 12 and the championship game on Sept. 14 at Arena Riga. Spain, placed in Group C, will look to defend its title after winning the last tournament in 2022.<\/p>\n

The field of teams finalized their 12-man rosters in the lead-up to the tournament, with some of the top names in the NBA and other role players set to play. Rookie Wire examined each roster and the current players in the league set to represent their national teams.<\/p>\n

Group A\"Aug<\/p>\n

Aug 10, 2024; Paris, France; Serbia power forward Nikola Jokic (15) runs up the court against Germany in the men’s basketball bronze medal game during the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games at Accor Arena. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n

Czechia: Vit Krejci (Atlanta Hawks)<\/p>\n

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Latvia: Kristaps Porzi\u0146\u0123is (Atlanta Hawks)<\/p>\n

Portugal: Neemias Queta (Boston Celtics)<\/p>\n

Serbia: Bogdan Bogdanovi\u0107 (LA Clippers), Nikola Joki\u0107 (Denver Nuggets), Nikola Jovi\u0107 (Miami Heat), Tristan Vukcevic (Washington Wizards)<\/p>\n

T\u00fcrkiye: Adem Bona (Philadelphia 76ers), Alperen \u015eeng\u00fcn (Houston Rockets)<\/p>\n

Group B\"Aug<\/p>\n

Aug 2, 2024; Villeneuve-d’Ascq, France; Germany guard Franz Wagner (9) reacts after a dunk against France in the second half in a men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s group B basketball game during the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games at Stade Pierre-Mauroy. Mandatory Credit: John David Mercer-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n

Finland: Lauri Markkanen (Utah Jazz)<\/p>\n

Germany: Tristan da Silva (Orlando Magic), Dennis Schr\u00f6der (Sacramento Kings), Franz Wagner (Orlando Magic)<\/p>\n

Lithuania: Jonas Valan\u010di\u016bnas (Denver Nuggets)<\/p>\n

Montenegro: Nikola Vu\u010devi\u0107 (Chicago Bulls)<\/p>\n

Sweden: Pelle Larson (Miami Heat)<\/p>\n

Group C\"Greece's<\/p>\n

Greece’s Giannis Antetokoumpo (R) is marked by France’s Alexandre Sarr during a friendly basketball game ahead of the Eurobasket 2025, in Athens on August 24, 2025. (Photo by Aris MESSINIS \/ AFP) (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Jusuf Nurki\u0107 (Utah Jazz)<\/p>\n

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Georgia: Goga Bitadze (Orlando Magic), Sandro Mamukelashvili (Toronto Raptors)<\/p>\n

Greece: Giannis Antetokounmpo (Milwaukee Bucks)<\/p>\n

Italy: Simone Fontecchio (Miami Heat)<\/p>\n

Spain: Santi Aldama (Memphis Grizzlies)<\/p>\n

Group D\"LJUBLJANA,<\/p>\n

LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA – AUGUST 8: Luka Doncic of Slovenia reacts during the international basketball friendly match between Slovenia and Germany at Dvorana Stozice, on August 8, 2025 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. (Photo by Jurij Kodrun\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

France: Bilal Coulibaly (Washington Wizards), Zaccharie Risacher (Hawks), Alex Sarr (Washington Wizards), Guerschon Yabusele (New York Knicks)<\/p>\n

Israel: Deni Avdija (Portland Trail Blazers)<\/p>\n

Slovenia:\u00a0Luka Don\u010di\u0107 (Los Angeles Lakers)<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Rookie Wire: EuroBasket 2025: Every NBA player set to suit up in European tourney<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 FIBA EuroBasket Championship is set to tip off on Wednesday as 24 teams begin the group…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[70744,12986,7218,64,63,42597,15507,1664,2066,16112,19700,1662,19711,7228,70745,20452,7220,70742,17932,32207,7232,11473,5851,7223,4620,70738,590,32203,1666,3906,65416,12985,9688,4621,5674,70739,70743,70740,85,17602,10859,11898,70741,7211,12844],"class_list":["post-96104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-adem-bona","tag-alex-sarr","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bilal-coulibaly","tag-bogdan-bogdanovic","tag-boston-celtics","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-deni-avdija","tag-dennis-schroder","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-franz-wagner","tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","tag-goga-bitadze","tag-guerschon-yabusele","tag-houston-rockets","tag-jusuf-nurkic","tag-la-clippers","tag-lauri-markkanen","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-luka-doncic","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-miami-heat","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-national-teams","tag-nba","tag-neemias-queta","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-nikola-jokic","tag-nikola-jovic","tag-orlando-magic","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sandro-mamukelashvili","tag-santi-aldama","tag-simone-fontecchio","tag-sports","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-tristan-da-silva","tag-utah-jazz","tag-vit-krejci","tag-washington-wizards","tag-zaccharie-risacher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}