The duel with the possible preliminary round opponent will take place on August 10th in Mannheim.
World Champion Germany tests its form two and a half weeks before the start of the Basketball European Championship (August 27 to September 14) against Slovenia and NBA superstar Luka Doncic (Los Angeles Lakers).
The preparatory game will take place on August 10th in the SAP Arena in Mannheim (5.30 p.m.), which announced the German Basketball Bund (DBB) on Friday.
Slovenia, European champion from 2017, is a possible preliminary round of the German team at the tournament in Riga/Latvia, Tampere/Finland, Limassol/Cyprus and Katowitz/Poland. The team of national coach Álex Mumbrú will be drawn from pot 1 at the draw on March 27, the Slovenes belong to pot 2.
So far, Slovenia and Germany played against each other 19 times, the last duel so far in September 2023 on the way to the gold of Manila clearly went to the later world champion (100: 71).