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2012 London Olympics - Men's Basketball
August 2 - 2:30pm - Preliminary Round Group A

Basketball with the 2012 Olympic Games is scheduled to generally be held from 28 July to 12 August. Competitions will likely be held at the newly created Basketball Arena, that may seat 12,000 spectators, along with the O2 Arena (named North Greenwich Arena on account of the ban on commercialisation in arena names all through Olympic occasions) in London. America men's and women's groups can be defending their present-day gold medal championships.

The National Olympic Committees may very well enter as many as 1 12-player men's staff and as much as 1 12-player women's workforce.

At first, basketball was the sole self-control where the host region was not to get mechanically awarded entry. This was as the Superb Britain basketball groups did not exist until eventually 2006, and FIBA, the earth governing system of basketball, was concerned about the longer term from the unified British groups soon after 2012, also since the claimed total not enough competitiveness of British basketball. All the same, within a meeting held in Lyon, France, on thirteen March 2011, the FIBA Govt Board agreed to allow the British teams to qualify mechanically.

Twelve qualified nations were being drawn into two teams, every consisting of 6 groups. After a preliminary spherical robin phase, the four highest-placed teams in each individual group will advance to some knock-out round to determine the medals.