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Nauru National Basketball Team
The Nauru national basketball team is the team that represents Nauru in international basketball. It is a member of FIBA Oceania. The national team was inactive in international competitive basketball for several years after participating at the 2001 Oceania Basketball Tournament in Fiji. Nauru initially planned to send a squad to the 2005 South Pacific Mini Games but withdrew due to undisclosed reasons. Eventually, it returned for the Basketball at the 2015 Pacific Games, 2015 Pacific Games. Nauru had its best performance at the Basketball at the 1969 South Pacific Games, 1969 Pacific Games when it beat the Solomon Islands national basketball team, Solomon Islands, which have almost 60 times Nauru's population, and Fiji national basketball team, Fiji, which has almost 100 times Nauru's population. Current roster At the Basketball at the 2015 Pacific Games, 2015 Pacific Games: ''(last publicized squad)'' , valign="top" , ;Head coach * Dets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nauru Island Basketball Association
Nauru ( or ; na, Naoero), officially the Republic of Nauru ( na, Repubrikin Naoero) and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in Oceania, in the Pacific Ocean, Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Kiribati, about to the east. It further lies northwest of Tuvalu, northeast of Solomon Islands, east-northeast of Papua New Guinea, southeast of the Federated States of Micronesia and south of the Marshall Islands. With only a area, Nauru is the List of countries and dependencies by area, third-smallest country in the world behind Vatican City and Monaco, making it the smallest republic as well as the smallest island nation. Its population of Demographics of Nauru, about 10,000 is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, second-smallest (not including colonies or overseas territories), after Vatican City. Settled by people from Micronesia circa 1000 Common Era, BCE, Nauru was annexation, annexed and claim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |