EuroBasket 2022: NBA schedule, format, teams and players to watch – NBA.com

Reigning MVP Nikola Jokic, two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo, three-time Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert and three-time All-NBA First Team guard Luka Doncic headline the NBA players participating in the EuroBasket 2022 – the tournament. to determine the European basketball champion.

The 24-nation tournament begins on Thursday and runs until September 18 with matches taking place in four host countries – the Czech Republic, Georgia, Italy and Germany. Originally scheduled for 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the postponement of the Olympics from 2020 to 2021, which forced EuroBasket to be pushed back to 2022.

Slovenia are the defending champions, winning their first EuroBasket in 2017 behind the play of tournament MVP Goran Dragic and then 18-year-old wonderkid Doncic – a year before joining the Dallas Mavericks as the third pick in the NBA Draft 2018 and went on to become one of the league’s brightest young stars.

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Tournament Format

The tournament begins with the group stage, which features four groups of six teams, and runs from September 1-8. Each group will play a round robin style tournament with each team playing against the other five teams in the group. The top four teams from each group will then advance to the knockout stage of the tournament.

In the knockout stage, which will be held from September 10-18 with all matches played at the EuroBasket Arena in Berlin, the 16 teams will be seeded into a draw according to their qualifying position from the group stage. They will then play knockout matches, culminating in the league match on September 18.

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NBA groups and players

Not only will this tournament feature the winners of the past four NBA MVP awards (Antetokounmpo in 2018-19 and 2019-20; Jokic in 2020-21 and 2021-22) and four of the past five Defensive Player of the Year awards ( Gobert in 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2020-21; Antetokounmpo in 2019-20), it will also feature more than 30 NBA players representing their home countries. France, the 2020 Olympic silver medalists, is the most represented in the NBA with five players on its list.

group A

• Belgium: no NBA player
• Bulgaria: no NBA player
• Georgia^: Goga Bitadze (Indiana)
• Montenegro*: no NBA player
• Spain: Juancho Hernangomez (Toronto); Willy Hernangomez (New Orleans)
• Turkey: Cedi Osman (Cleveland); Alperen Sengun (Houston); Furkan Korkmaz (Philadelphia)

Group B

• Bosnia and Herzegovina: Jusuf Nurkic (Portland)
• France: Evan Fournier (New York); Rudy Gobert (Minnesota); Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot (free agent); Theo Maledon (Oklahoma City); Frank Ntilikina (Dallas)
• Germany^: Dennis Schroder (free agent); Daniel Theis (Indiana); Franz Wagner (Orlando)
• Hungary: no NBA player
• Lithuania: Domantas Sabonis (Sacramento); Jonas Valanciunas (New Orleans)
• Slovenia: Luka Doncic (Dallas); Goran Dragic (Chicago); Vlatko Cancar (Denver)

Group C

• Croatia: Bojan Bogdanovic (Utah); Dario Saric (Phoenix); Ivica Zubac (LA Clippers); Mario Hezonja (free agent)
• Estonia: no NBA player
• Britain: no NBA player
• Greece: Giannis Antetokounmpo (Milwaukee); Thanasis Antetokounmpo (Milwaukee); Tyler Dorsey (Dallas)
• Italy^: no NBA player
• Ukraine: Sviatoslav Mikhailiuk (free agent)
  

  Giannis Antetoukounmpo representing Greece.

Group D

• Czech Republic^: Tomas Satoransky (free agent)
• Finland: Lauri Markkanen (Cleveland)
• Israel: Deni Avdija (Washington)
• Netherlands: no NBA player
• Poland: no NBA player
• Serbia: Nikola Jokic (Denver); Nikola Jovic (Miami); Aleksey Pokusevski (Oklahoma City)

Remarks

• ^ Group Stage Host Country
• * Montenegro replaces Russia, who were disqualified from the tournament by FIBA ​​following the Russian invasion of Ukraine

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Tournament Schedule

The action begins on September 1 with the group stage, followed by the knockout stage on September 10. Check FIBA.com for full scores and stats.