The FIBA Diamond Ball competition was an official international basketball tournament organised by FIBA,http://www.fiba.basketball/en/events FIBA´s official events by year held every Olympic year prior to the Summer Olympics. The first tournament was held in 2000, for men's teams only. In 2004 and 2008, tournaments were held for both men and women.

The competing teams are the host country of that year's Summer Olympics, defending the FIBA Diamond Ball champions, the reigning FIBA World Cup, Summer Olympics, and continental champions, minus the United States men's team.

The United States women's team did not participate in the 2004 event, although they were the then-reigning world champions. However, they did compete in the 2008 event, as the Americas champions.

The tournament was not held in 2012 and 2016, and the tournament is not on FIBA's schedule for the next Olympic-year calendar, 2020 in Tokyo.

Men's results YearHostFinalThird Place MatchChampionScoreSecond PlaceThird PlaceScoreFourth Place2000DetailsHong Kong78–7182–742004DetailsBelgrade93–8084–742008DetailsNanjing95–9175–46

Medals summary

Participation Details Team 200020042008Total 6th 6th 6th 3 3rd 1st 2 1st 5th 2nd 3 4th 1 5th 4th 3rd 3 4th 1 3rd 1 2nd 1 5th 1 2nd 1st 2

Top scorers Points Per Game

YearPlayerPositionTeamPoints Per Game 2000 Steve Nash PG 22.0 2004 Yao Ming C 22.0 2008 Luis Scola PF 20.0

Final

YearPlayerPositionTeamPoints 2000 Ricky Grace arhiva.serbia.govSG 16 2004 Igor Rakocevic SG 19 2008 Manu Ginobili F 24

Women's results YearHostFinalThird Place MatchChampionScoreSecond PlaceThird PlaceScoreFourth Place2004DetailsHeraklion74–7073–702008DetailsHaining71–6763–51

Medals summary

Participation Details Team20042008Total 1st 2nd 2 3rd 1 2nd 3rd 2 4th 1 5th 1 4th 1 6th 1 6th 1 5th 1 1st 1

See also Acropolis Tournament Basketball at the Summer Olympics FIBA Basketball World Cup FIBA Asia Cup Adecco Cup Marchand Continental Championship Cup Belgrade Trophy Stanković Cup William Jones Cup

References

External links FIBA Diamond Ball Men Archive FIBA Diamond Ball Women Archive