Dates 8 Aug 1990 – 19 Aug 1990 Teams 16 | MVP Toni Kukoč Venues 6 | |
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Champion Yugoslavia national basketball team Similar 1986 FIBA World Championship, 1994 FIBA World Championship, 1978 FIBA World Championship, 1970 FIBA World Championship, 1998 FIBA World Championship | ||
1990 fiba world championship
The 1990 FIBA World Championship was an international basketball competition hosted by Argentina from August 8 to August 20, 1990. The competition final phase was held at the Luna Park, Buenos Aires.
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- 1990 fiba world championship
- Competing nations
- Second round
- All Tournament Team
- Top scorers ppg
- References
Yugoslavia emerged as the tournament winner. This was the last World Championship in which the country participated before its dissolution.
This was the first ever FIBA World Championship (now called FIBA Basketball World Cup) tournament, in which non-American current NBA players, that had also already played in an official regular season NBA game could participate.
Competing nations
The following national teams competed:
Second round
The top two finishers from Groups I and II advance to the final round.
All-Tournament Team
Top scorers (ppg)
- Oscar Schmidt (Brazil) 34.6
- Antonello Riva (Italy) 30.3
- Panagiotis Giannakis (Greece) 26.0
- Andrew Gaze (Australia) 24.3
- Jordi Villacampa (Spain) 23.0
- Kim Kim (S.Korea) 22.1
- Gabriel Estaba (Venezuela) 21.5
- Wang Fei (China) 19.4
- Kenny Anderson (USA) 18.8
- Valeri Tikhonenko (USSR) 18.5
References
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