# Cuba men's national basketball team

The Cuba men's national basketball team represents Cuba at international competitions. It won the bronze medal at 1972 Summer Olympics and finished in 4th place at the 1974 FIBA World Championship. It is the only team from the Caribbean to win a medal at a major global event.

## Competitive record
### Olympics

| Year | Position | Tournament | Host |
| 1948 | 13th | Basketball at the 1948 Summer Olympics | London, United Kingdom |
| 1952 | 9th | Basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics | Helsinki, Finland |
| 1968 | 11th | Basketball at the 1968 Summer Olympics | Mexico City, Mexico |
| 1972 | (3rd place) | Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics | Munich, West Germany |
| 1976 | 7th | Basketball at the 1976 Summer Olympics | Montreal, Canada |
| 1980 | 6th | Basketball at the 1980 Summer Olympics | Moscow, Soviet Union |

### Friendship Games

| Year | Position | Tournament | Host |
| 1984 | (3rd place) | Basketball at the Friendship Games | Moscow, Soviet Union |

### FIBA World Cup

| Year | Position | Tournament | Host |
| 1970 | 8th | 1970 FIBA World Championship | Yugoslavia |
| 1974 | 4th | 1974 FIBA World Championship | Puerto Rico |
| 1986 | 11th | 1986 FIBA World Championship | Spain |
| 1994 | 15th | 1994 FIBA World Championship | Canada |

### FIBA AmeriCup

| Year | Position | Tournament | Host |
| 1980 | 6th | 1980 Tournament of the Americas | San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| 1984 | 8th | 1984 Tournament of the Americas | São Paulo, Brazil |
| 1989 | 7th | 1989 Tournament of the Americas | Mexico City, Mexico |
| 1992 | 8th | 1992 Tournament of the Americas | Portland, United States |
| 1993 | 5th | 1993 Tournament of the Americas | San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| 1995 | 5th | 1995 Tournament of the Americas | Tucumán, Argentina |
| 1997 | 6th | 1997 FIBA Americas Championship | Montevideo, Uruguay |
| 1999 | 10th | 1999 FIBA Americas Championship | San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| 2011 | 10th | 2011 FIBA Americas Championship | Mar del Plata, Argentina |
| 2015 | 10th | 2015 FIBA Americas Championship | Mexico City, Mexico |

### Pan American Games

* 1951:
* 1955: 5th
* 1959: 6th
* 1963: Did not compete
* 1967: 4th
* 1971:
* 1975: 5th
* 1979: 4th
* 1983: 7th
* 1987: Did not compete
* 1991: 4th
* 1995: Did not compete
* 1999: 7th
* 2003-2019: Did not compete
* 2023: To be determined

### Centrobasket

* 1989:
* 1991:
* 1993:
* 1995:
* 1997:
* 1999:
* 2001: 6th
* 2003: Did not compete
* 2004: 5th
* 2006: 6th
* 2008: 4th
* 2010: 4th
* 2012: 8th
* 2014: 4th
* 2016: 6th

### Caribebasket

* 1981-1996: ?
* 1998-2002: Did not compete
* 2004:
* 2006:
* 2007:
* 2009:
* 2011: Did not compete
* 2014:
* 2015: Did not compete

## Current roster
### Past roster

Roster for the 2015 FIBA Americas Championship.

### Depth chart

| Pos. | Starting 5 | Bench 1 | Bench 2 |
| C | Javier Justiz | Yoan Luis | Abel Font |
| PF | Yoel Cubilla | Orestes Torres | |
| SF | Livan Valdez | Yoanki Mensia | Yordanis Jaca |
| SG | Karel Guzman | William Granda | |
| PG | Yaser Rodriguez | Osmel Oliva | |

## Head coach position

* Daniel Scott: 2001–2011
* Leonardo Perez: 2012–2014
* Daniel Scott: 2015–2017
* Yoanis Zaldivar: 2017
* José "Pepe" Ramírez: 2017-2019
* Eduardo Moya: 2020-present

## Past rosters

1948 Olympic Games: finished 13th among 23 teams
Alfredo "Bebo" Faget, Francisco "Frank" Lavernia, Raúl García Ordóñez, Federico "Fico" López, Casimiro García Artime, Juan García, José Llanusa, Ramón Wiltz, Mario Agüero, Joaquín Agüero, Mario Quintero, Fabio Ruiz, Llaneras Rodríguez, Otero Vázquez, José Miguel Álvarez Pozo
1952 Olympic Games: finished 14th among 23 teams
Alfredo "Bebo" Faget, Carlos García Ordóñez, Federico "Fico" López, Juan García, Casimiro García Artime, Ramón Wiltz, Mario Quintero, Fabio Ruiz, Mario Agüero, Felipe de la Pozas y Piad, Carlos Bea, Armando Estrada Rivero, Alberto Escoto Valdés
1968 Olympic Games: finished 11th among 16 teams
Ruperto Herrera Tabio, Pedro Chappe Garcia, Franklin Standard, Rafael Cañizares, Conrado Pérez, Pablo García, Cesar Valdés, Inocente Cuesta, Jacinto González, Miguel Montalvo, Miguel Calderón Gómez, Carlos del Pozo (Coach: Stepas Butautas)
1970 World Championship: finished 8th among 13 teams
Ruperto Herrera Tabio, Pedro Chappe Garcia, Franklin Standard, Conrado Pérez, Tomás Herrera Martínez, Rafael Cañizares, Juan Domecq, Miguel Álvarez Pozo, Alejandro Urgelles Guibot, Oscar Varona Varona, Miguel Calderón Gómez, Francisco Varona (Coach: Stepas Butautas)
1972 Olympic Games: finished 3rd among 16 teams
Ruperto Herrera Tabio, Pedro Chappe Garcia, Juan Domecq, Franklin Standard, Alejandro Urgelles Guibot, Rafael Cañizares, Oscar Varona Varona, Tomás Herrera Martínez, Miguel Álvarez Pozo, Miguel Calderón Gómez, Juan Roca Brunet, Conrado Pérez (Coach: Juan Carmelo Ortega Díaz)
1974 World Championship: finished 4th among 14 teams
Ruperto Herrera Tabio, Pedro Chappe Garcia, Miguel Álvarez Pozo, Tomás Herrera Martínez, Juan Domecq, Oscar Varona Varona, Miguel Calderón Gómez, Alejandro Urgelles Guibot, Rafael Cañizares, Conrado Pérez, Juan Roca Brunet, Alejandro Lázaro Ortiz (Coach: Juan Carmelo Ortega Díaz)
1976 Olympic Games: finished 7th among 12 teams
Ruperto Herrera Tabio, Pedro Chappe Garcia, Juan Domecq, Tomás Herrera Martínez, Oscar Varona Varona, Félix Morales, Alejandro Urgelles Guibot, Daniel Scott, Rafael Cañizares, Juan Roca Brunet, Alejandro Lázaro Ortiz, Ángel Padrón (Coach: Juan Carmelo Ortega Díaz)
1980 Olympic Games: finished 6th among 12 teams
Ruperto Herrera Tabio, Tomás Herrera Martínez, Miguel Calderón Gómez, Félix Morales, Daniel Scott, Alejandro Urgelles Guibot, Alejandro Lázaro Ortiz, Raúl Dubois, Pedro Abreu, Jorge More, Generoso Márquez, Noangel Luaces (Coach: Pedro Chappe Garcia)
1986 World Championship: finished 11th among 24 teams
Daniel Scott, Félix Morales, Raúl Dubois, Pedro Abreu, Luis Calderón, Noangel Luaces, Eduardo Cabrera, Luciano Rivero, Roberto Simón Salomón, Leonardo Pérez, José Carlos Caballero, Pedro Cobarrubia (Coach: Juan Carmelo Ortega Díaz)
1994 World Championship: finished 15th among 16 teams
Richard Matienzo, Leonardo Pérez, Lazaro Borrell, Roberto Carlos Herrera, Roberto Simón Salomón, Ángel Oscar Caballero, Augusto Duquesne, Ulises Goire, José Luis Díaz, Juan Leopoldo Vázquez, Edel Casanova, Yudit Abreu (Coach: Miguel Calderón Gómez)