Although the 2025-26 NBA season is still about a few weeks away, basketball fans around the world are being treated to hoops on a near nightly basis. For those interested in the WNBA, the premier women’s basketball league is in the best place ever, talent-wise. For those who consider themselves FIBA aficionados, there are multiple tournaments being hosted around the world.<\/p>\n
Africa just wrapped up AfroBasket, with NBA veteran Bruno Fernando<\/a> helping lead Angola to their 12th championship. In Europe, the 2025 EuroBasket competition features hoops icons like Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic<\/a> and Los Angeles Lakers point guard Luka Doncic<\/a>. In Nicaragua, the many countries that make up the Americas met up to play for the AmeriCup.<\/p>\n If anyone rooting for the United States was watching them play in the AmeriCup tournament, they’d have come away disappointed by what they witnessed.<\/p>\n It isn’t often that a team that inspires thoughts about the cream of the crop falls to a Bruno Caboclo<\/a>-led squad. Yet, that’s exactly what happened this weekend when Brazil completed a comeback to knock Team USA out of the championship game. Of course, losing to Brazil in the AmeriCup semifinals didn’t prevent Team USA from being able to medal.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, the highest that they could finish is third-place. That’s only if they took down Washington Wizards swingman Kyshawn George<\/a> and Team Canada. In that scenario, it would mark the second straight AmeriCup tournament that Team USA won a bronze medal.<\/p>\nFIBA AmeriCup 2025 Provides More Evidence Against Team USA<\/h2>\n
Good, But Not Good Enough<\/h3>\n