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The Singapore men's national basketball team is the national team for
Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...
in
basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
. It is managed by the ''Basketball Association of Singapore'' (BAS), formerly the Singapore Amateur Basketball Association (SABA). At the
Asian Basketball Championship The FIBA Asia Cup (formerly the FIBA Asia Championship and ABC Championship) is an international basketball tournament which takes place every four years between the men's national teams of Asia and Oceania. Through the 2015 edition, the tourn ...
, the country had its greatest success between 1971 and 1993 when it qualified for 12 straight events. Since 2001, the team has been one of the contenders at the
Southeast Asian Basketball Championship The SEABA Championship is a basketball tournament national teams organized by the Southeast Asia Basketball Association, a sub-zone of the FIBA Asia. It serves as a qualifier for the FIBA Asia Cup The FIBA Asia Cup (formerly the FIBA Asia Cham ...
. There, the team has won two bronze medals to date. In 1956, the team qualified for the Summer Olympics where it finished ahead of Asian rivals
South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eas ...
and Thailand national basketball team, Thailand.


Recent Developments

On 5 June 2009, a "quiet revolution" took place in Singapore national men's basketball team. The team previously representing Singapore was replaced by young talents of the likes of Wei Jian Hong, Steven Khoo, Desmond Oh and Wei Long Wong, with only two senior players from the old squad retained: Pathman Matialakan and Michael Wong. Most of the national team players now play for the Singapore Slingers, the island's only professional basketball club.


2011 Southeast Asian Games

The Singapore Men's National team left for the 2011 SEA Games having had the best preparation for a major tournament in the past 5 years. On 30 September to 1 October 2011, represented by most of the national team players, the Singapore Slingers was invited for the inaugural Cable Beach Invitational at Broome, Western Australia, Broome, Australia, where they played the Perth Wildcats and the Indonesia national basketball team. On 5 October 2011, the National team proceeded to play the Perth Redbacks of the Australian SBL. From 25–31 October 2011, the team competed in the 4th China-Asean Invitational Tournament, of which they finished 3rd overall in the competition. After disappointing close losses to Malaysia and Indonesia, the team finished 5th at the 2011 Southeast Asian Games.


Performances


Summer Olympics


FIBA Asia Cup


Southeast Asian Championship

*2001: *2005 SEABA Championship, 2005: 4th *2007 SEABA Championship, 2007: 5th *2009 SEABA Championship, 2009: 4th *2011 SEABA Championship, 2011: 4th *2013 SEABA Championship, 2013: *2015 SEABA Championship, 2015:


SEA Games

*Basketball at the 1977 Southeast Asian Games, 1977: 4th *1979: *Basketball at the 1981 Southeast Asian Games, 1981: 4th *Basketball at the 1983 Southeast Asian Games, 1983: 4th *Basketball at the 1989 Southeast Asian Games, 1989: 4th *Basketball at the 1991 Southeast Asian Games, 1991: 4th *Basketball at the 1995 Southeast Asian Games, 1995: 5th *Basketball at the 2001 Southeast Asian Games, 2001: 5th *Basketball at the 2003 Southeast Asian Games, 2003: 4th *Basketball at the 2011 Southeast Asian Games, 2011: 5th *Basketball at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games, 2013: *Basketball at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games, 2015: *Basketball at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games, 2017: 4th *Basketball at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games, 2019: 5th


Team


Current roster

Roster at the Basketball at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games, 2019 SEA Games.


Past rosters

Roster for the 2017 SEABA Championship.


Head coaches

* Lee Liak Meng (1978) * Chan Kwok Hung (1979) * Wong Fong Chang (1980-1981) * Ho Ching Hoe (1982) * Nic Jorge (1983) * Eddie Ng Hang Kee (1987-1991, 2001-2003) * Beng Siang Neo (2006, 2009–2013) * So Kwang Loong (2014) * Beng Siang Neo (2015) * Neo Nam Kheng (2016) * Frank Arsego (2016–2018) * Hsu Tung Ching (2018–2019)


Kit


Manufacturer

2015: Kappa (company), Kappa2015 FIBA Asia Championship - Singapore
, FIBA.com, Retrieved 4 November 2015.


See also

* Singapore women's national basketball team * Singapore national under-19 basketball team * Singapore national under-17 basketball team * National Basketball League (Singapore), National Basketball League


References


External links


Official website



Asia-Basket.com


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