Basketball World Championship Results
After three games, finally Spain Basketball team could defeat Turkey in World Champinship. The Spaniards before had been defeated 76-73 by Lithuania.
San Antonio playmaker and triple NBA champion Tony Parker, who played for France, did not play last game but fortunately France could win the game a 68-63 against Canada .
Meanwhile, wearing a mask to protect a facial injury, the Milwaukee Bucks forward carried his team throughout a rip-roaring contest in front of a raucous 10,000 home crowd in the Ankara Arena. Greece power forward Antonis Fotsis was graceful in defeat and praised the home team, who got their revenge for a dramatic quarter-final loss to the Greeks in last year’s European Championship in Poland.
In another game, Forward Linas Kleiza had 17 points and eight rebounds and three other Lithuanian players finished in double scoring digits to outmuscle the Spanish duo of Juan Carlos Navarro and Marc Gasol, who finished with 18 points each.
Russia stayed on course to reach the last 16 with an unimpressive 72-66 victory against Ivory Coast, centre Timofey Mozgov enjoying a game-high 19 points for the winners.
New Zealand and Puerto Rico kept alive their own hopes of progressing from their respective preliminary pools, the former easing past Lebanon 108-76 on the back of 26 points.
From the results of the games above, it is still not obvious who will be the champion in this tournament. All teams left play a very skillful game and it is still hard to guess, their performances are also quite charming and interesting.
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