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World Cup rosters: Who’s competing in China

Most NBA stars have taken a pass on this year’s World Cup, the first since 2014, but you will still we able to find a bunch of recognizable names across the various National Teams taking part in the tournament starting on August 31.

Here they are:

United States (Group E)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Harrison Barnes SF 27 6-8
Jaylen Brown SF 22 6-7
Kyle Kuzma PF 24 6-9
Brook Lopez C 31 7-0
Khris Middleton SF 28 6-8
Donovan Mitchell SG 22 6-3
Mason Plumlee C 29 6-11
Marcus Smart SG 25 6-4
Jayson Tatum SF 21 6-8
Myles Turner C 23 6-11
Kemba Walker PG 29 6-1
Joe Harris SG 27 6-6
Derrick White SG 25 6-4

Angola (Group D)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Jose Antonio PG 29 6-6
Yanick Moreira C 28 6-11
Gerson Goncalves SG 23 6-4
Leonel Paulo PF 33 6-6
Eduardo Mingas PF 40 6-6
Hermenegildo Mbunga C 33 6-9
Reggie Moore PF 38 6-7
Leandro Conceicao PG 29 6-5
Olimpio Cipriano SG 37 6-4
Gerson Domingos PG 23 5-10
Carlos Morais SG 33 6-3
Valdelicio Joaquin C 29 6-10

Argentina (Group B)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Nicolas Brussino SF 26 6-8
Agustin Caffaro C 24 6-11
Facundo Campazzo PG 28 5-11
Gabriel Deck SF 24 6-7
Marcos Delia C 27 6-11
Maximo Fjellerup SG 21 6-6
Tayavek Gallizzi PF 26 6-9
Patricio Garino SF 26 6-7
Nicolas Laprovittola PG 26 6-4
Lucio Redivo SG 25 6-0
Luis Scola PF 39 6-9
Luca Vildoza PG 24 6-3

Australia (Group H)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Aron Baynes C 32 6-10
Andrew Bogut C 34 7-0
Jonah Bolden C 23 6-10
Matthew Dellavedova PG 28 6-4
Cameron Gliddon SG 30 6-6
Chris Goulding SG 30 6-4
Joe Ingles SF 31 6-8
Nick Kay PF 27 6-9
Jock Landale C 23 6-11
Mitch Creek SF 27 6-6
Patty Mills PG 31 6-0
Nathan Sobey PG 29 6-1

Brazil (Group F)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Leandro Barbosa G 36 6-3
Vitor Benite SG 29 6-4
Bruno Caboclo SF 23 6-9
Lucas Dias PF 24 6-10
Yago Mateus PG 20 5-10
Cristiano Felicio C 27 6-10
Alex Garcia SG 39 6-4
Rafael Hettsheimeir C 33 6-10
Marcelo Huertas PG 36 6-3
Augusto Lima PF 27 6-10
Marcos Louzada SG 20 6-5
Jhonatan Luz PF 32 6-5
Rafa Luz PG 27 6-2
Anderson Varejao C 36 6-11
Marquinhos Vieira SF 35 6-9

Canada (Group H)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Aaron Best SG 27 6-4
Khem Birch C 26 6-9
Oshae Brissett SF 21 6-9
Melvin Ejim SF 28 6-6
Brady Heslip SG 29 6-2
Cory Joseph PG 27 6-3
Kaza Kajami-Keane PG 25 6-2
Andrew Nembhard PG 19 6-5
Duane Notice PG 24 6-2
Eugene Omoruyi PF 23 6-6
Kevin Pangos PG 26 6-2
Addison Patterson SG 18 6-6
Phil Scrubb PG 26 6-4
Thomas Scrubb SF 27 6-7
Kyle Wiltjer PF 26 6-10

China (Group A)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Guo Ailun PG 25 6-4
Fang Shuo PG 28 6-3
Zhao Jiwei PG 23 6-1
Sun Minghui SG 23 6-2
Zhou Peng SF 29 6-9
Zhao Rui SF 23 6-4
Kelanbaike Makan SF 26 6-6
Abudushalamu Abudurexiti SF 23 6-8
Zhai Xiaochuan PF 26 6-8
Yi Jianlian PF 31 7-0
Zhou Qi C 23 7-1
Wang Zhelin C 25 7-0
Ren Junfei PF 29 6-8
Shen Zijie PF 21 6-9

Czech Republic (Group E)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Patrik Auda PF 29 6-9
Ondrej Balvin C 26 7-1
Jaromir Bohacik SF 27 6-6
Petr Herman PF 25 6-10
Vojtech Hruban SF 29 6-8
Vit Krejci PG 19 6-6
Martin Kriz SF 26 6-7
Michael Mares SF 26 6-4
Lukas Palyza SF 29 6-8
Martin Peterka C 24 6-8
Viktor Pulpan PF 23 6-3
Pavel Pumprla SF 33 6-6
Simon Pursl SF 22 6-9
Petr Safarick SG 25 6-4
Tomas Satoransky PG 27 6-7
Blake Schlib SF 35 6-6
Jakub Sirina PG 31 6-1
Jakub Tuma PG 20 6-4
Jan Vesely C 29 7-0
Tomas Vyoral PG 26 6-3

Dominican Republic (Group G)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Jhonatan Araujo C 23 6-10
Eulis Baez PF 37 6-7
Adris De Leon PG 35 5-11
Juan Jose Garcia PF 30 6-7
Victor Liz PG 32 6-0
Rigoberto Mendoza SG 27 6-3
Luis Montero SF 26 6-7
Dagoberto Pena SF 31 6-6
Ronald Ramon PG 33 6-0
Ronald Roberts PF 28 6-8
Sadiel Rojas SF 30 6-4
Gelvis Solano SG 25 6-1
Edgar Sosa PG 31 6-2
Juan Miguel Suero SF 26 6-5
Eloy Vargas C 30 6-11

France (Group G)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Andrew Albicy PG 29 5-10
Nicolas Batum SF 30 6-8
Nando De Colo SG 32 6-5
Evan Fournier SG 26 6-7
Rudy Gobert C 27 7-1
Louis Labeyrie PF 27 6-10
Paul Lacombe SG 29 6-3
Mathias Lessort C 23 6-9
Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot SG 24 6-6
Amath M’Baye PF 29 6-9
Adrien Moerman PF 31 6-8
Frank Ntilikina PG 21 6-6
Vincent Poirier C 25 6-10
Axel Toupane SF 27 6-7

Germany (Group G)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Maodo Lo PG 27 6-3
Johannes Voigtmann C 26 6-11
Daniel Theis PF 27 6-9
Robin Benzing SF 30 6-10
Dennis Schroeder PG 25 6-1
Danilo Barthel PF 27 6-10
Johannes Thiemann C 25 6-9
İsmet Akpınar PG 24 6-3
Niels Giffey SG 28 6-7
Andreas Obst SG 23 6-3
Karim Jallow PG 29 6-2
Maxi Kleber PF 27 6-11
Moritz Wagner C 22 6-11
Isaac Bonga SF 19 6-9
Paul Zipser SF 25 6-8

Greece (Group F)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Ioannis Athinaiou PG 31 6-4
Giannis Antetokounmpo SF 24 6-11
Thanasis Antetokounmpo SF 27 6-7
Panagiotis Vasilopoulos PF 35 6-9
Nick Calathes PG 30 6-5
Antonis Koniaris PG 21 6-3
Giannoulis Larentzakis SG 25 6-5
Vangelis Mantzaris PG 29 6-5
Dinos Mitoglou PF 23 6-11
Ioannis Bourousis C 36 7-1
Georgios Papagiannis C 22 7-2
Kostas Papanikolaou SF 29 6-8
Ioannis Papapetrou SF 25 6-9
Georgios Printezis PF 34 6-9
Christos Saloustros SF 29 6-8
Kostas Sloukas SG 29 6-3

Iran (Group C)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Sina Vahedi PG 18 6-1
Behshad Arabzadeh PG 19 6-5
Rouzbeh Arghavan C 31 7-0
Aaron Geramipoor PF 26 6-10
Hamed Haddadi C 34 7-2
Mohammad Hassanzadeh PF 28 6-10
Hamed Hosseinzadeh PG 28 6-7
Mohammad Jamshidi SG 28 6-5
Sajjad Mashayekhi PG 25 5-11
Meisam Mirzaei C 27 6-10
Rasoul Mozaffari PG 25 6-2
Samad Nikkhah Bahrami SF 36 6-6
Navid Niktash PF 28 6-8
Navid Rezaeifar SG 22 6-3
Keivan Riaei C 25 6-10
Mike Rostampour PF 27 6-9
Amir Sedighi PF 26 6-8
Behnam Yakhchali SG 23 6-5
Arman Zangeneh PF 26 6-8

Italy (Group D)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Alessandro Gentile SF 26 6-7
Amedeo Della Valle SG 26 6-4
Amedeo Tessitori C 24 6-10
Andrea Cinciarini PG 33 6-4
Ariel Filloy PG 32 6-3
Awudu Abass SF 26 6-7
Brian Sacchetti PF 33 6-7
Daniel Hackett PG 31 6-6
Danilo Gallinari F 31 6-10
Giampaolo Ricci PF 27 6-7
Jeff Brooks PF 30 6-8
Luca Vitali PG 33 6-7
Luigi Datome SF 31 6-8
Marco Belinelli SG 33 6-5
Michele Vitali SG 27 6-5
Paul Biligha C 29 6-7
Pietro Aradori SG 30 6-5
Riccardo Moraschini SG 28 6-4
Diego Flaccadori SG 23 6-4
Davide Moretti PG 21 6-2
Davide Pascolo PF 28 6-8
Acchille Polonara PF 27 6-8
Stefano Tonut SG 25 6-4

Ivory Coast (Group A)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Charles Abouo SF 29 6-5
Adjehi Baru PF 27 6-9
Cedric Bah PF 25 6-7
Tiegbe Bamba SF 28 6-8
Isaac Cisse PG 20 6-0
Bali Coulibaly PF 24 6-6
Jean Benoit Cyrille PG 19 5-7
Souleyman Diatabe PG 32 6-0
Guy Edi SF 30 6-5
Vafessa Fofana SF 27 6-6
Mohamed Kone PF 38 6-11
Willy Kouassi C 27 6-10
Herve Laminzana C 38 6-10
Bryan Pamba PG 27 6-1
Amadou Sidibe PF 25 6-8
Deon Thompson PF 30 6-8
Fode Traore SG 34 6-3
Frejus Zerbo C 30 6-11
Nisre Zouzoua SG 23 6-2

Japan (Group E)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Seiya Ando PG 27 5-11
Shuto Ando SG 25 6-3
Yudai Baba SF 24 6-6
Nick Fazekas C 34 6-11
Rui Hachimura PF 21 6-8
Tenketsu Harimoto SF 27 6-6
Makoto Hiejima SG 29 6-3
Atsuya Ota C 35 6-9
Avi Koki Schafer C 21 6-8
Ryusei Shinoyama PG 31 5-10
Joji Takeuchi PF 34 6-9
Kosuke Takeuchi PF 34 6-9
Daiki Tanaka SG 27 6-4
Leo Vendrame PG 25 6-0
Hiyu Watanabe C 20 6-10
Yuta Watanabe PF 24 6-9

Lithuania (Group H)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Eimantas Bendzius PF 29 6-9
Arnas Butkevicius SF 26 6-6
Martinas Geben C 24 6-10
Rokas Giedraitis SF 27 6-7
Marius Grigonis SG 25 6-6
Zygimantas Janavicius PG 30 6-4
Paulius Jankunas PF 35 6-9
Mantas Kalnietis PG 32 6-5
Mindaugas Kuzminskas SF 29 6-9
Lukas Lekavicius PG 25 6-0
Jonas Maciulis SF 34 6-6
Domantas Sabonis PF 23 6-10
Renaldas Seibutis SG 34 6-5
Edgaras Ulanovas SF 27 6-6
Jonas Valanciunas C 27 6-11

Montenegro (Group F)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Milko Bjelica C 35 6-9
Ognjen Carapic PG 20 6-5
Igor Drobnjak PG 19 6-3
Bojan Dubljevic PF 27 6-9
Nemanja Djurisic SF 27 6-8
Pavle Djurisic SF 19 6-9
Nikola Ivanovic PG 25 6-3
Jovan Kljajic SG 17 6-6
Derek Needham PG 28 5-11
Aleksa Popovic SF 32 6-7
Petar Popovic PG 22 6-2
Dino Radoncic SF 20 6-7
Nemanja Radovic PF 27 6-8
Blagota Sekulic PF 37 6-10
Marko Simonovic PF 19 6-10
Sead Sehovic SG 29 6-6
Suad Sehovic SG 32 6-7
Marko Todorovic PF 27 6-9
Nemanja Vranjes SG 31 6-3
Nikola Vucevic C 28 7-0

New Zealand (Group F)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Thomas Abercrombie SF 32 6-6
Yuat Alok PF 22 6-11
Taylor Britt PF 22 6-9
Max Darling PF 18 6-6
Finn Delany PF 24 6-7
Dan Fotu PF 20 6-8
Isaac Fotu PF 25 6-8
Tyrell Harrison C 20 7-0
Shea Ili PG 26 6-0
Jarrod Kenny PG 33 6-1
Robert Loe C 28 6-11
Taine Murray SG 17 6-4
Jordan Ngatai SF 26 6-5
Kruz Perrott-Hunt SF 18 6-3
Alex Pledger C 32 7-1
Ethan Rusbatch SG 27 6-5
Tohi Smith-Milner PF 23 6-9
Sam Timmins PF 22 6-11
Tom Vodanovich PF 25 6-7
Corey Webster SG 30 6-1
Tai Webster SG 24 6-4
Yanni Wetzell PF 23 6-10

Nigeria (Group B)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Deji Akindele C 36 7-1
Alade Aminu C 31 6-11
Al-Farouq Aminu PF 28 6-9
Ike Diogu PF 35 6-8
Michael Eric C 31 6-11
Ike Iroegbu PG 24 6-2
Chimezie Metu PF 22 6-10
Ike Nwamu SG 26 6-5
Jordan Nwora SF 20 6-8
Stan Okoye SF 28 6-6
Ekpe Udoh C 32 6-10
Ben Uzoh PG 31 6-3
Gabe Vincent PG 23 6-3
Talib Zanna C 28 6-9
Josh Okogie SG 20 6-4

Philippines (Group D)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Japeth Aguilar PF 32 6-10
Raymond Almazan C 30 6-8
Mark Barroca PG 33 5-10
Beau Belga C 32 6-5
Andray Blatche C 32 6-11
Robert Bolick PG 23 6-1
Jordan Clarkson SG 27 6-5
Paul Lee PG 30 6-0
John Paul Erram C 30 6-8
June Mar Fajardo C 29 6-10
Marcio Lassiter SG 32 6-3
Gabe Norwood SF 34 6-6
CJ Perez SG 25 6-2
RB Pogoy SG 27 6-2
Stanley Pringle PG 32 6-1
Kiefer Ravena PG 25 6-0
Troy Rosario SF 27 6-7
Christian Standhardinger PF 30 6-8
Matthew Wright SG 28 6-4

Poland (Group A)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Aleksander Balcerowski C 18 7-1
Aaron Cel PF 25 6-8
Karol Gruszecki SF 29 6-5
Adam Hrycaniuk C 35 6-9
Lukasz Kolenda PG 20 6-3
Lukasz Koszarek PG 35 6-2
Damian Kulig PF 32 6-9
Kamil Laczynski PG 20 6-3
Dominik Olejniczak C 23 6-10
Mateusz Ponitka SF 25 6-6
Jakub Schenk PG 25 6-0
A.J. Slaughter PG 32 6-3
Michal Sokolowski SF 26 6-5
Krzysztof Sulima C 29 6-8
Adam Waczynski SG 29 6-5
Mathieu Wojciechowski C 29 7-0

Puerto Rico (Group C)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Ramon Clemente PF 33 6-7
Gary Browne PG 25 6-1
Jorge Bryan Diaz C 29 6-11
Gian Clavell SG 25 6-4
David Huertas SG 32 6-5
Angel Rodriguez PG 26 5-11
Ivan Gandia PG 21 6-1
Chris Brady C 23 6-10
Emmy Andujar SF 26 6-6
Isaiah Pineiro SF 22 6-7
Alex Franklin SF 31 6-6
Javier Mojica PG 34 6-4
John Holland SG 30 6-5
Devon Collier SF 28 6-8

Russia (Group B)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Joel Bolomboy C 25 6-9
Andrey Sopin PG 22 6-2
Sergey Karasev SF 25 6-7
Evgeny Baburin SG 32 6-3
Grigory Motovilov SG 21 6-4
Vitaly Fridzon SG 33 6-5
Vladimir Ivlev C 29 6-9
Semen Antonov SF 30 6-8
Andrey Zubkov PG 28 6-9
Nikita Balashov PF 28 6-9
Andrey Vorontsevich PF 32 6-9
Alexander Platunov PG 22 6-4
Mikhail Kulagin SG 25 6-3
Evgeny Valiev PF 29 6-9
Artem Zabelin C 31 7-1
Nikita Kurbanov SF 32 6-8

Senegal (Group H)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Moustapha Diop SF 23 6-7
Ibrahima Faye C 22 6-9
Mouhammad Faye PF 33 6-9
Makhtar Gueye PF 22 6-10
Hamady Ndiaye C 32 7-0
Maurice Ndour PF 27 6-9
Momar Ndoye SF 24 6-6
Youssoupha Ndoye C 28 6-11
Lamine Sambe SG 29 6-2
Djibril Thiam PF 33 6-9
Babacar Toure C 33 6-9
Xane D’Almeida PG 36 6-0

Serbia (Group D)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Vasilije Micic PG 25 6-6
Stefan Jovic PG 28 6-6
Bogdan Bogdanovic SG 26 6-6
Dragan Milosavljevic SG 30 6-6
Marko Guduric SF 24 6-7
Aleksa Avramovic PG 24 6-4
Marko Simonovic SF 33 6-8
Vladimir Lucic SF 30 6-8
Dejan Todorovic SF 25 6-5
Nemanja Bjelica PF 31 6-10
Stefan Bircevic PF 29 6-11
Nikola Jokic C 24 7-0
Miroslav Raduljica C 31 7-0
Boban Marjanovic C 31 7-3
Nikola Milutinov C 24 7-0
Nikola Jovanovic PF 25 6-11

South Korea (Group B)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Choi Jun-yong PF 25 6-7
Heo Hoon PG 24 5-11
Jeong Hyo-geun SF 25 6-7
Kang Sang-jae PF 24 6-8
Kim Jong-kyu C 28 6-9
Kim Sun-hyung PG 31 6-2
Lee Dae-sung PG 29 6-3
Lee Jung-hyun SG 32 6-3
Lee Seoung-hyun C 27 6-8
Ricardo Ratliffe PF 30 6-6
Park Chan-Hee PG 32 6-3
Yang Hee-Jong SF 35 6-4

Spain (Group C)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Pablo Aguilar PF 30 6-9
Javier Beiran SF 32 6-5
Victor Claver PF 30 6-9
Quino Colom PG 30 6-2
Ilimane Diop C 24 6-11
Jaime Fernandez PG 26 6-1
Rudy Fernandez SF 34 6-5
Marc Gasol C 34 7-1
Juancho Hernangomez SF 23 6-9
Willy Hernangomez C 25 6-11
Sergio Llull PG 31 6-3
Xavi Rabaseda SF 30 6-6
Pierre Oriola PF 26 6-10
Pau Ribas SG 32 6-5
Ricky Rubio PG 28 6-3
Joan Sastre SF 27 6-7

Tunisia (Group C)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Mohamed Abbassi C 28 6-8
Makram Ben Romdhane PF 30 6-8
Amrou Bouallegue SG 23 6-4
Ziyed Chennoufi SF 30 6-7
Lassaad Chouaya SG 29 6-2
Mourad El Mabrouk SG 32 6-1
Hamza Foudhaili PF 33 6-9
Mokhtar Ghyaza SF 32 6-8
Mohamed Hadidane PF 33 6-8
Achraf Khayati PG 30 5-11
Nizar Knioua PG 36 6-2
Omar Mouhli SG 33 6-4
Haithem Saada PF 24 6-8
Mehdi Seyeh PG 28 6-0
Radhouane Slimane PF 39 6-9

Turkey (Group E)

PLAYER POS AGE HT
Mert Akay PG 19 6-5
Ege Arar PF 22 6-10
Yigit Arslan SG 23 6-4
Ragip Berke Atar C 20 6-11
Dogus Balbay PG 30 6-1
Metecan Birsen SF 24 6-10
Berkan Durmaz PF 22 6-9
Semih Erden C 33 7-0
Tolga Gecim SF 23 6-9
Sehmus Hazer SG 20 6-3
Ersan Ilyasova PF 32 6-10
Furkan Korkmaz SG 22 6-7
Goksenin Koksal SG 28 6-6
Melih Mahmutoglu SG 29 6-3
Bobby Dizon PG 36 5-10
Ayberk Olmaz PF 23 6-11
Cedi Osman SF 24 6-8
Ridvan Oncel SG 22 6-4
Kartal Ozmizrak PG 23 6-2
Yigitcan Saybir PF 20 6-8
Sertac Sanli C 28 7-0
Bugrahan Tuncer SG 26 6-4
Metin Turen PF 25 6-9
Berk Ugurlu PG 23 6-4
Scottie Wilbekin PG 26 6-2
Muhsin Yasar C 23 6-11
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