GERMANY will play the United States in the semifinals of the Basketball World Cup, a rematch of an exhibition matchup from earlier this summer where the Americans needed a big rally to win. Franz Wagner scored 16 points and Germany — the last unbeaten team left in the World Cup…
GERMANY will play the United States in the semifinals of the Basketball World Cup, a rematch of an exhibition matchup from earlier this summer where the Americans needed a big rally to win.
in Abu Dhabi, rallying from a 16-point second-half deficit and needing an 18-0 run down the stretch to take control. Andreas Obst scored 13 for Germany, which survived on a night where Dennis Schroder was 4 for 26 from the floor.With the win, Germany is assured of no worse than its second-best finish in basketball’s top two international events — the World Cup and the Olympics. The Germans were third in the 2002 world championships, an event now called the World Cup, and have never placed better than seventh at an Olympics.
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