World Baseketball Chamionship BEGINS [R]

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Halftime:

Brazil 52 x 33 Lebanon

Live Ticker here:

http://aovivo.gazetaesportiva.net/ge2/basquete/2808brasilxlibano/placar.frm

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Oh and No TV for the WCB in the US..except for US games, from what I can tell. Shameful.

Brazil 62 x 37 Lebanon (3rd Q)

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better link to live scores...just click on thegame on the right..scoreborad just like at an arena.

http://www.fiba.com/oneplanet/world/index.asp?CC=WMM&YearBegin=2002

[SABuffalo786]

What days does the US play?

[SoccerScout]

US plays tonight, tomoorw and Saturday..first round action.

See at : www.2000worldbasketball.com

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Brazil 102 x 73 Lebanon

Read article here:

http://www.2002worldbasketball.com/news/view-article.asp?item=29AM-8291411007

[JG]

Other scores this afternoon:

Yugoslavia 113-63 Angola
No surprise here, Yugos shoot 65%.

Puerto Rico 78-75 Turkey
Sounds like an excellent game, close from start to finish. PR overcomes injurues (Arroyo and Fajardo) to pull it out against debutants Turkey. Former USC player Larry Ayuso scored 22 and 70 year-old Jose Ortiz had 18 points and 11 rebounds. Turkoglu had 20 for Turkey.

Spain 85-54 Canada
Canada completely tanks without their NBA players. Gasol had 19 points in 23 minutes for Spain.

[SABuffalo786]

Originally posted by JG
Other scores this afternoon:

Yugoslavia 113-63 Angola
No surprise here, Yugos shoot 65%.

Puerto Rico 78-75 Turkey
Sounds like an excellent game, close from start to finish. PR overcomes injurues (Arroyo and Fajardo) to pull it out against debutants Turkey. Former USC player Larry Ayuso scored 22 and 70 year-old Jose Ortiz had 18 points and 11 rebounds. Turkoglu had 20 for Turkey.

Spain 85-54 Canada
Canada completely tanks without their NBA players. Gasol had 19 points in 23 minutes for Spain.

70 YEARS OLD!!!!!!
Are you serious?

[ElJefe]

Originally posted by JG
Spain 85-54 Canada
Canada completely tanks without their NBA players. Gasol had 19 points in 23 minutes for Spain.
Personally, I'd blame Mark Cuban. If it weren't for him, Steve Nash would be playing for Canada.

[skipshady]

Originally posted by ElJefe

Personally, I'd blame Mark Cuban. If it weren't for him, Steve Nash would be playing for Canada. What happened to Bill Wennington? :D


Wait, aren't Todd McCullough and Rick Fox Canadian too?

[JG]

I don't think Cuban is entirely to blame for the Nash situation. Finley and LaFrentz are in the same boat and playing, and neither of them have made the kinds of sacrifices Nash has made to play for Canada in the past. There had to have been some part of Nash's heart that didn't feel like playing this summer.

Much worse IMO is Magloire, who hasn't played for Canada since 1996, and played in someone's charity game the same day the Hornets doctors called the Canadians to tell him he'd be unavailable for the Championships.

MacCulloch is also injured. Fox actually wanted to play for the Bahamas earlier this summer, but wasn't allowed to--he says he won't play for Canada again.

[AndrewGK]

Originally posted by ElJefe

Personally, I'd blame Mark Cuban. If it weren't for him, Steve Nash would be playing for Canada.

Dustin,

Actually, per Nash, he wasn't physically able to play for Canada.

http://espn.go.com/nba/news/2002/0815/1418538.html

Shame, they could have used him. Watched the 2nd half of the Canada-Spain game today, and the Canadians looked absolutely horrible out there.

[JG]

This evening's early scores:

Germany 85-76 China
Not as close as it sounds, Germany was up 24 after 3 quarters. Nowitzki had 22 in the first half, 30 for the game. Yao had foul trouble but still managed 16 points and 7 boards in 18 minutes.

New Zealand 90-81 Russia
The first big upset. New Zealand beat Yugoslavia a couple weeks ago, but trailed by 22 in the third quarter before closing with a 55-24 run. Pero Cameron had 22, Miami's Sean Marks 21, and Wisconsin's Kirk Penney 19. Kirilenko had an awful game for Russia.

[TrooperBari]

Baseketball? I didn't think it had spread outside of the minds of Trey Parker and Matt Stone.... ;)

[tcmahoney]

Originally posted by SABuffalo786


70 YEARS OLD!!!!!!
Are you serious?

http://www.2002worldbasketball.com/teams/americas/puertorico.htm

38.

Jose Ortiz, meet Carlos Valderrama.

Carlos Valderrama, meet Jose Ortiz.

Why don't you two grab you each some Geritol and chat for a while in those rocking chairs out on the porch?

Fellow Puerto Rican Jerome Mincy is 37 as well, and like Ortiz, he's made three trips each to the Olympics and the WBC, as well as winning gold at the 1994 Goodwill Games.

[JG]

Final games from tonight:

USA 110-60 Algeria
Paul Pierce beat the Algerians 16-13 in the first quarter. He could have done it for the whole game, but the rest of the team got jealous.

Argentina 107-72 Venezuela
New Spur Emanuel Ginobili had 19 points in 24 minutes, and Andres Nocioni, who had that dunk over Garnett a few years ago, scored 16. Venezuela's super scorer Victor Diaz was held to 12.

[JG]

Originally posted by tcmahoney


http://www.2002worldbasketball.com/teams/americas/puertorico.htm

38.

Jose Ortiz, meet Carlos Valderrama.

Carlos Valderrama, meet Jose Ortiz.

Why don't you two grab you each some Geritol and chat for a while in those rocking chairs out on the porch?

Fellow Puerto Rican Jerome Mincy is 37 as well, and like Ortiz, he's made three trips each to the Olympics and the WBC, as well as winning gold at the 1994 Goodwill Games.

Marca referred to Puerto Rico as an "under-32 team" :)

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Day 2

Halftime

Brazil 38 x 49 Turkey

Hum...Turkey revenge from 2 loses at the World cup?

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3rdQ

Brazil 45 x 51 Turkey Brazil Catching up after being down by 14.

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3rd Q

Brazil 50 x 59 Turkey