USA Basketball’s men’s team is assured of seeing Serbia and South Sudan in the group stage of the Paris Olympics, while the U.S. women are guaranteed of a gold-medal-game rematch against Japan in France this summer.

USA Basketball is back atop the FIBA men’s world rankings even after failing to medal at the World Cup.

The World Cup is over.

Sue Bird is going back to international basketball.

South Sudan is the world’s youngest nation, only gaining its independence 12 years ago.

It was late in the first quarter of the U.S. team's opener at the FIBA World Cup.

The international game and the NBA game are basically the same.

The United States will open Basketball World Cup play against New Zealand this summer, with Greece and Jordan also awaiting the Americans in the group stage.

Basketball’s international governing body FIBA says Russia has been excluded from qualification for the men’s Olympic basketball tournament in Paris next year.

USA Basketball put together different rosters for all six World Cup qualifying windows, and coach Jim Boylen noticed the same two things with each of those groups.

Players at this year’s World Cup had a few concerns about the competition, including the compact schedule and the timing of the tournament, and the women took their complaints right to the top.

Chicago Sky Head Coach James Wade has been selected as one of two head coaches for the 2022 AT&T WNBA All-Star Game, according to a team press release.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Friday that he expects the oft-maligned “transition take foul” to come with stiffer penalties next season.

The rules are different.

Nneka Ogwumike and Elizabeth Williams have filed appeals to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in a last-ditch effort to play for Nigeria in the upcoming Olympics, says two people familiar with the situation.

Nneka Ogwumike and Elizabeth Williams have been notified by FIBA that their petitions to play for Nigeria in the upcoming Olympics were denied because they played for the U.S. for too long, says two people familiar with the situation.

The last stop for USA Basketball before the Tokyo Olympics will be Las Vegas.

A basketball player was recently suspended by FIBA, the worlds governing body for basketball, until June 2020 for attempting to cheat a drug test, according to RTV, a media company in Slovenia. Cooper, a former Ohio University guard who was a part of the schools Sweet 16 team in 2012, cheated the test? As it turns out, Cooper submitted a urine sample for the drug test that belonged to his pregnant girlfriend. To rewind, after finishing out his time at Ohio University in 2013, Cooper started a career in Europe, eventually being granted citizenship in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2014. It was an interesting twist since Cooper left the Bosnia-Herzegovina national team in 2015, but he obviously was looking to get back on that team.

A basketball player was recently suspended by FIBA, the worlds governing body for basketball, until June 2020 for attempting to cheat a drug test, according to RTV, a media company in Slovenia. Cooper, a former Ohio University guard who was a part of the schools Sweet 16 team in 2012, cheated the test? As it turns out, Cooper submitted a urine sample for the drug test that belonged to his pregnant girlfriend. To rewind, after finishing out his time at Ohio University in 2013, Cooper started a career in Europe, eventually being granted citizenship in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2014. Cooper had a nice stint at Ohio University, finishing his time there as the only player in NCAA history to record at least 2,000 points, 900 assists, 600 rebounds and 300 steals in a career.