| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Mens' Basketball | ||
| Competitor for Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro / Serbia | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
| Gold | 1980 Moscow | |
| Silver | 1996 Atlanta | |
| Silver | 1968 Mexico City | |
| Silver | 1976 Montreal | |
| Silver | 1988 Seoul | |
| Bronze | 1984 Los Angeles | |
| FIBA World Championship | ||
| Gold | 1970 Yugoslavia | |
| Gold | 1978 Philippines | |
| Gold | 1990 Argentina | |
| Gold | 1998 Greece | |
| Gold | 2002 United States | |
| Silver | 1963 Brazil | |
| Silver | 1967 Uruguay | |
| Silver | 1974 Puerto Rico | |
| Bronze | 1982 Colombia | |
| Bronze | 1986 Spain | |
| EuroBasket | ||
| Gold | 1973 Spain | |
| Gold | 1975 Yugoslavia | |
| Gold | 1977 Belgium | |
| Gold | 1989 Yugoslavia | |
| Gold | 1991 Italy | |
| Gold | 1995 Greece | |
| Gold | 1997 Spain | |
| Gold | 2001 Turkey | |
| Silver | 1961 Yugoslavia | |
| Silver | 1965 Soviet Union | |
| Silver | 1969 Italy | |
| Silver | 1981 Czechoslovakia | |
| Silver | 2009 Poland | |
| Bronze | 1963 Poland | |
| Bronze | 1987 Greece | |
| Bronze | 1999 France | |
| Mediterranean Games | ||
| Gold | 1959 Beirut | |
| Gold | 1967 Tunis | |
| Gold | 1971 Izmir | |
| Gold | 1976 Algiers | |
| Gold | 1983 Casablanca | |
| Silver | 1979 Split | |
| Bronze | 1963 Naples | |
| Bronze | 1997 Bari | |
| FIBA Diamond Ball | ||
| Gold | FIBA Diamond Ball 2004 | |
| Silver | FIBA Diamond Ball 2000 | |
The Serbian national basketball team (Serbian: Кошаркашка репрезентација Србије / Košarkaška reprezentacija Srbije) represents Serbia in international basketball matches and is controlled by the Basketball Federation of Serbia. It was known as the Yugoslavia national basketball team until February 2003 and the Serbia and Montenegro national basketball team until June 2006. When Serbia became independent, it became the successor state to the Serbia and Montenegro and, therefore, the results of all previous states rightfully belong to it.
Including the results of the national teams under all names, Serbia is the most successful team in World championships (5 championships) and is one of the most successful in all other competitions. The Olympic Committee of Serbia and Yugoslavia declared the basketball team for the best male sports team of the year five times with the first time in 1995, and the last one in 2002.
Serbia is currently ranked twelfth in the FIBA World Rankings.
Read more about Serbia National Basketball Team: Medals Table, Roster, Head Coaches, Notable Players
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“Just so before we’re international,
We’re national and act as nationals.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)