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Argentina national basketball team is the basketball side that represents Argentina in Basketball international competitions, and depends on the Argentine Basketball Federation .

Argentina is the first team to win the World Champions , in 1950 . The team also won the Olympic Champions in 2004 .

The most important team in South America together with Brazil , Argentina won the 1934, 1935, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1966, 1976, 1979, 1987, 2001 and 2004 South American Championships, and the 2001 America Cup (where United States and Puerto Rico also participate), as well as many youth championships.


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TRIVIA

  • Argentina line-up of 1950:

  • :Pedro Andrés Bustos, Leopoldo Contarbio, Hugo Oscar del Vecchio, Oscar Alberto Furlong, Ricardo Primitivo González, Vito Liva, Alberto López, Rubén Francisco Menini, Omar Ubaldo Monza, Raúl Pérez Varela, Juan Carlos Uder and Roberto Luis Viau.

:Coach: Jorge Hugo Canavesi.
  • Emanuel Ginóbili became in 2003 , with San Antonio Spurs , the first Argentine player to win an NBA championship, and in spite of his age is already considered as one of the most important player in Argentine basketball history. He is also the only player in history to win an NBA title, a Gold Medal at the Summer Olympics, and the Euroleague.



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