55 National Basketball Association Players to Compete in 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup
The FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 will be hosted in the Philippines, Japan, and Indonesia from Friday, August 25 to Sunday, September 10, and will feature a record 55 current NBA (www.NBA.com) players, up from 54 in 2019. The tournament will include a record 106 current NBA players, NBA draftees, and NBA veterans, up from 103 in 2019.
Twenty-seven of the 32 competing national teams have at least one current NBA player, NBA draftee, or player with NBA experience, and national team rosters include ten former NBA All-Stars: Anthony Edwards (Minnesota Timberwolves; USA), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Oklahoma City Thunder; Canada), Luka Doni (Dallas Mavericks; Slovenia), Rudy Gobert (Timberwolves; France), Tyrese Haliburton (
Outside of the United States, which has the most current NBA players (nine), Australia has the most (seven), Canada has seven, and Germany has four.
Other NBA statistics and stories for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 include:
On national team rosters, twenty-four NBA teams are represented, with the Orlando Magic, Jazz, Thunder, and Timberwolves each fielding a league-high five players in the tournament, while the New York Knicks and Mavericks each have four players.
On national team rosters, there are 54 players with NBA G League experience.
The tournament will feature 16 players from the first three seasons of the Basketball Africa League (BAL), including 2023 BAL MVP Nuni Omot, who led Al Ahly (Egypt) to the 2023 BAL Championship after helping his native South Sudan qualify for the country’s first-ever appearance in the FIBA Basketball World Cup.
The BAL is a professional league run by the NBA and FIBA that includes 12 club teams from around Africa. Its third season ended in May 2023.
Former NBA Global Academy teammates Josh Giddey (Thunder) and Dyson Daniels (Pelicans), as well as current NBA Academy Africa student-athlete Khaman Maluach (South Sudan), NBA Global Academy graduate Cui Yongxi (China), and NBA Academy Latin America participant Jean Montero (Dominican Republic), are set to compete in the FIBA Basketball World Cup.
On national team rosters, there are 87 former Basketball Without Borders (BWB) campers. BWB is the NBA and FIBA’s annual worldwide basketball development and community outreach program, which has seen 112 former campers move to the NBA or WNBA.
The FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 Qualifiers featured 80 national teams from four regions: Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia (including Oceania).
The NBA App and NBA.com will include FIBA’s digital platform, “Courtside 1891,” which will allow fans in 20 countries and territories to purchase the FIBA World Cup Pass and watch the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023. Beginning on Aug. 25 and continuing until the Final on Sept. 10, Courtside 1891’s FIBA World Cup Pass will provide fans with access to live and on-demand games, extended highlights, and top plays. The FIBA World Cup Pass for Courtside 1891 can be purchased at NBA.com/WorldCup (https://apo-opa.info/452mF3W), and the complete game schedule can be found at NBA.com/FIBA (https://apo-opa.info/47rEN9e).
