The Nauru national basketball team is the team that represents

Nauru 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 Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Ki ...

in international

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. It is a member of

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. The national team was inactive in international competitive basketball for several years after participating at the 2001 Oceania Basketball Tournament in

Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...

. Nauru initially planned to send a squad to the

2005 South Pacific Mini Games The VII South Pacific Mini Games were held July 25-August 4, 2005 in Palau. Torch lighter was athlete Christopher Silas Adolf, Palau's first Olympian. Participating countries Tahiti and Tokelau did not send teams to the games, with Tahiti cit ...

but withdrew due to undisclosed reasons. Eventually, it returned for the

2015 Pacific Games The 2015 Pacific Games, also known as Port Moresby 2015 or POM 2015, was held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, from 4 to 18 July 2015. It was the fifteenth staging of the Pacific Games as well as the third to be hosted in Port Moresby. More tha ...

. Nauru had its best performance at the

1969 Pacific Games The 1969 South Pacific Games, held from 13–23 August 1969 at Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea, was the third edition of the South Pacific Games. A total of 1,150 athletes participated in the games. Participating countries Twelve Pacific nations ...

when it beat the

Solomon Islands Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, to the east of Papua New Guinea and north-west of Vanuatu. It has a land area of , and a population of approx. 700,000. Its capita ...

, which have almost 60 times Nauru's population, and

, which has almost 100 times Nauru's population.

Current roster

At the

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on 3 July 2015 At Nauru's last game at the

against the

, Heine Kanimea was his team's top scorer as he contributed 21 of Nauru's 71 total points.2015 Pacific Games - Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Retrieved 28 January 2020.

Competitions

FIBA Oceania Championship

Pacific Games

Pacific Mini Games

Oceania Basketball Tournament

References

Videos

Pacific Games 2015 D5 BASKETBALL MEN KIRBATI vs NAURU
Youtube.com video {{FIBA Oceania teams 1975 establishments in Nauru Men's national basketball teams

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

Basketball teams established in 1975