Great News! Chinese and Croatian national teams slated for the NBA Summer League

For the first time, two international sides. Chinese and Croatian national teams will play alongside all 30 NBA teams in this year’s NBA Summer League.

Team China had played in Las Vegas at the 2007 edition, but Team Croatia will make its debut at the event, which will be held on July 5-15 in Las Vegas.

The draw for #FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 is held in Shenzhen City, south China’s Guangdong Province, March 16, 2019. Yang Chaoyue, Chinese teen idol member of Rocket Girls 101(L) draws for the tournament.(Photo by Fu Tian/CNSPHOTO) #杨超越 @FIBA pic.twitter.com/xSasCYrwmE

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The 11-day, 83-game tournament will be a competition that will see each of the 32 teams play four preliminary games, with the top eight teams seeded into a tournament to determine the champion on July 15.

Here’s the Pools for the FIBA World Cup in China. USA in a strong pool with Turkey and Czech Republic. New Zealand will fave Greece and Brazil to get past pic.twitter.com/dQFRvwL5T4

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Those that don’t make the championship bracket will play a consolation game.

Every NBA team will participate in Las Vegas for the second consecutive year.

The Portland Trail Blazers beat the Los Angeles Lakers for the 2018 title.

China will host and participate in the 32-team FIBA World Cup, which slated for August 31, while Croatia did not make the cut.