FIBA zone FIBA Americas Medals None Appearances 11 Coach Joaquín Ruiz Lorente Joined FIBA 1958 | Appearances 1 (1968) Medals None Location Panama | |
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Appearances 4 (1970, 1982, 1986, 2006) National federation Federación Panameña de Baloncesto | ||
The Panama national basketball team are the basketball side that represent Panama in international competitions.
Contents
Olympic Games
FIBA World championship
Pan American Games
FIBA Americas championship
Central American championship
Current roster
At the 2016 Centrobasket:
Panama
List of Panama national basketball team players.
Head coach position
Rosters
Scroll down to see more.Panama Pipeline
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, various Panama players played their college basketball in the United States at NAIA school Briar Cliff College as part of head coach Ray Nacke's "Panama Pipeline". Some of the members included national team members Rolando Frazier, Ernesto "Tito" Malcolm, Mario Butler, Eddie Warren, Reggie Grenald, and Mario Galvez. These players helped Briar Cliff to many NAIA Regional Championships, National Tournament appearances, and in 1981 the Chargers were ranked No. 1 in the nation in the NAIA's final regular season poll.
The new millennium brought another set of very good players from Panama, coming out of the local Superior Basketball Circuit (CBS), the under 21 team, and local players playing in Division 1 Universities in the United States. Panama has gone to 4 preolympic tournaments, 5 pre-world championships, one world championship (Japan)in 2006, and one youth basketball olympics (Singapore 2010)since the year 2000. The local program is based in neighborhood leagues that collect talent and export it to the United States. This symbiotic philosophy produces back the talent for the National Team.
Usually underrated and underestimated, Panama Basketball always manages to qualify to big tournaments and give stunning surprises, such as beating the United States in the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2007. Its long basketball tradition dating back to 1904, and its street basketball mentality of fighting hard to the end in basketball games, has made this Central American basketball program a "Classic" in the international scene.
Manufacturer
2015: Nike