Top 10 Basketball Countries of All Time

The Top Ten
1 United States

Great number one pick! USA created basketball and many love this sport in America. Love this pick great job and is right to

2 Yugoslavia A now-defunct country in Southeastern and Central Europe, Yugoslavia was established in 1918 and dissolved in 1992. Composed of several ethnic groups, the country faced significant political and social challenges, culminating in its breakup into several independent states. The capital was Belgrade, and the official language was Serbo-Croatian.

It's not a country

3 Soviet Union
4 Brazil
5 Argentina
6 Greece
7 Italy
8 Spain
9 Lithuania

Lithuania doesn't have the most memorable players and well known players, but they were gods.

Arvydas Sabonis is like the best Center EVER!
Nikola Jokic, Klay Thompson and 7'3 height = Sabonis!
He was a beast. Ask OG Portland Blazers fans

Lithuania beat many countries and should be 4th

Beat every country

10 Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also called Czechia is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The Czech Republic has a hilly landscape that covers an area of 78,871 ...read more.
The Contenders
11 France

France is a good basketball team HOW COME IT IS 10TH IT SHOULD BE 7th

The best European team by far.

12 Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. It is situated in the western Pacific Ocean and consists of around 7,641 islands that are broadly categorized under three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. The Philippines is bounded by the South China Sea to the west, the Philippine Sea to the east, and the Celebes Sea to the southwest. It shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north, Japan to the northeast, Palau to the east and southeast, Indonesia to the south, Malaysia to the southwest, Vietnam to the west, and China to the northwest. The Philippines covers an area of 300,000 km2 (120,000 ...read more.

My country's people including me, are super duper obsessed with Basketball. More obsessed than the states.
Then Philippine Basketball Assocation was created, and Philippines Team became weaker. Still became lucky NBA Star Clarkson played but he didn't play in the FIBA World Cup anyway. Most of the Players in the Lineup are PBA players and guess what?
We lost more than 40 points against Italy, and lost almost 60 points against Serbia. It just blew up the Filipino Media and everyone was angry.

Country With a Biggest Heart in Basketball

13 Serbia

SERBIA CAME 2nd in olympic games

14 Canada Canada is a country in North America that is next to the United States, and it's the 2nd largest country in the world by area (size is 9.985 million km²). This country has 10 provinces, and 3 territories. Canada became a dominion on July 1, 1867. Its 10 provinces are: Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec, ...read more.
15 Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of 7,617,930 square kilometres (2,941,300 sq mi), Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with deserts in the centre, tropical rainforests in the north-east, and mountain ranges in the south-east.

Australia came 4th in Olympic Games how come its 17th

16 Russia
17 Germany
18 China
19 Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea, and shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the southwest; it is also ...read more.
20 Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia (independence since 1991), is a sovereign state at the crossroads of Central Europe, Southeast Europe, and the Mediterranean. Its capital city is Zagreb. It is a member of the European Union. During the Cold War it was part of Yugoslavia. It is a cultural ...read more.
21 San Marino San Marino, officially the Republic of San Marino, also known as the Most Serene Republic of San Marino, is an enclaved microstate surrounded by Italy, situated on the Italian Peninsula on the northeastern side of the Apennine Mountains. San Marino covers a land area of just over 61 km2 (24 sq mi), ...read more.
22 Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a sovereign and unitary monarchy in Northern Europe whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the island Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard. ...read more.
23 New Zealand New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. ...read more.
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