BASKETBALL

Spanish basketball is in the best moment of its history as we can verify in big victories in the most important world’s sports events. Among these victories we can mention the Japan world championship in 2006 defeating countries like Lithuania in quarter-final, Argentine in semi-finals (in a gruelling match) and Greece in the final. As a sign of the good level of the Spanish players between the initial quintets of the tournament appeared three Spanish players. Other sample of the great level and game of the Spanish basketball team was in the Olympic Games where they remained second winning a silver medal. The last sample of the good level that is given in Spanish basketball was last year in Poland where after a bad start of tournament, Spain recovered and won the title. Inside Spanish basketball teams Barcelona, Real Madrid and TAU Vitoria stand out. Another example apart from this is that in the NBA there are five Spanish players, Pau Gasol, who last year won the European title with Spain and also he won the NBA ring with his team, The Angels Lakers.