Panama men's national basketball team

Panama men's national basketball team
The Panama men's national basketball team (Spanish: Selección nacional de baloncesto de Panamá) represents Panama in men's international basketball competitions, The team represents both FIBA and FIBA Americas.
With four qualifications to the Basketball World Cup, one qualification to the Olympic Games, and one medal at the Pan American Games, Panama has traditionally been the dominant basketball power in Central America.
Tournament record
Olympic Games
1968 – 12th
FIBA World Cup
1970 – 9th
1982 – 9th
1986 – 19th
2006 – 21st
Pan American Games
1951 – 6th
1967 – (3rd place)
1971 – 6th
1979 – 7th
1987 – 6th
2007 – 5th
FIBA AmeriCup
1984 – 4th
1989 – 11th
1992 – 8th
1993 – 8th
1999 – 9th
2001 – 6th
2005 – 5th
2007 – 9th
2009 – 8th
2011 – 8th
2015 – 7th
2017 – 12th
2022 – 11th
Central American Championship
1995 – 4th place
1999 – 4th place
2001 – (3rd place)
2004 – (3rd place)
2006 – (1st place)
2008 – 6th
2010 – (3rd place)
2012 – 4th
2014 – 5th
Team
Current roster
Roster for the 2022 FIBA AmeriCup.
Former players
Head coach position
Nolan Richardson: 2005
Guillermo Vecchio: 2006
Nolan Richardson: 2007
Past rosters
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1968 Olympic Games: finished 12th among 16 teams
Davis Peralta, Norris Webb, Luis Sinclair, Pedro Rivas, Eliecer Ellis, Calixto Malcom, Nicolás Noé Alvarado, Ernesto Arturo Agard, Francisco Checa, Julio Osorio, Pércibal Eduardo Blades, Ramón Reyes (Coach: Eugenio Luzcando)
1970 World Championship: finished 9th among 13 teams
Davis Peralta, Luis Sinclair, Pedro Rivas, Ernesto Arturo Agard, Julio Osorio, Pércibal Eduardo Blades, Julio Andrade, Herbert Cousins, Ronald Walton, Cecilio Straker, Mario Peart, Hector Montalvo (Coach: Carl Pirelli Minetti)
1982 World Championship: finished 9th among 13 teams
Ernesto "Tito" Malcolm, Rolando Frazer, Mario Butler, Rodolfo Gill, Fernando Pinillo, Reggie Grenald, Braulio Rivas, Arturo Brown, Mario Galvez, Adolfo Medrick, Eddie Joe Chávez, Alfonso Smith (Coach: Jim Baron)
1986 World Championship: finished 19th among 24 teams
Ernesto "Tito" Malcolm, Mario Butler, Rolando Frazer, Reggie Grenald, Rodolfo Gill, Fernando Pinillo, Braulio Rivas, Adolfo Medrick, Cirilo Escalona, Mario Gálvez, Enrique Grenald, Daniel Macias (Coach: Frank Holness)
2006 World Championship: finished 21st among 24 teams
Ed Cota, Rubén Garcés, Jaime Lloreda, Ruben Douglas, Michael Hicks, Maximiliano "Max" Gómez, Eric Omar Cardenas, Kevin Daley, Antonio Enrique García, Jair Peralta, Jamaal Levy, Dionisio Gómez (Coach: Guillermo Edgardo Vecchio)
At the 2015 FIBA Americas Championship:
Panama Pipeline
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, various Panama players played their college basketball in the United States at NAIA school Briar Cliff College as part of head coach Ray Nacke's "Panama Pipeline". Some of the members included national team members Rolando Frazier, Ernesto "Tito" Malcolm, Mario Butler, Eddie Warren, Reggie Grenald, and Mario Galvez. These players helped Briar Cliff to many NAIA Regional Championships, National Tournament appearances, and in 1981 the Chargers were ranked No. 1 in the nation in the NAIA's final regular season poll.
The new millennium brought another set of very good players from Panama, coming out of the local Superior Basketball Circuit (CBS), the under 21 team, and local players in Division 1 Universities in the United States. Since 2000, Panama has gone to 4 preolympic tournaments, 5 pre-world championships, one world championship (Japan 2006), and one youth basketball olympics (Singapore 2010). The local program is based in neighborhood leagues that collect talent and export it to the United States. This symbiotic action produces the talent for the National Team.
Usually underrated and underestimated, Panama Basketball always manages to qualify to big tournaments and give stunning surprises, such as beating the United States in the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2007. Its long basketball tradition dating back to 1904, and its street basketball mentality of fighting hard to the end in basketball games, has made this Central American basketball program a "Classic" in the international scene.
Kit
Manufacturer
2015: Nike
References
External links
FIBA profile
Latinbasket.com - Panama Men National Team
Men's national basketball teams
Basketball in Panama
basketball
1958 establishments in Panama