Duels with the NBA stars Luka Doncic or Giannis Antetocounmpo only threaten the German team in the KO round.
The German national basketball team avoids the big name in the preliminary round of the European Championship. At the draw on Thursday in Riga in Latvian, the team of national coach àlex Mumbrú was assigned to Group B and meets Lithuania in Finnish Tampere. The other preliminary round opponents of the world champion in the title fights from August 27 to September 14 are co-host Finland, Great Britain, Sweden and Montenegro.
“As always, there are only strong preliminary round groups. But I don’t want to talk much, but rather let my team speak in the field at the European Championship,” said Mumbrú: “It is good that we already know Sweden and Montenegro from the qualification. Lithuania is very difficult to play and Finland is also very difficult to estimate in my own audience.”
The German group is played in Tampere/Finland, the other preliminary round venues are Riga, Limassol/Cyprus and Katowitz/Poland. In the neighboring German neighboring country, NBA-Star Luka Doncic play with Slovenia and Vice European Champion France in Group D. The four best of the group reach the round of 16.
From the KO round, the 42nd EUROBASKET plays in the Xiaomi Arena in Riga. The German team had won the bronze medal with the final round in Berlin at the 2022 European Championship. A year later, the winning of the world championship title was achieved under Gordon Herbert. After the summer games in France last year (fourth place), Mumbrú had taken over the office.
RTL transfers the German games as well as the final and extensive highlights “as part of a strategic partnership” with the rights holder Deutsche Telekom. This broadcasts all 76 games of the tournament live with MagentaTV and Magenta Sport, the German games also free of charge.