Eduardo Najri, general manager of the Dominican basketball team that will participate in the 24-team FIBA Basketball World Cup, said that Alfred Horford of the Atlanta Hawks will be on the Dominican team. He also confirmed that Orlando Antigua will coach the team. Najri also reports that James Feldeine would be the team’s naturalized player. Antigua is leaving his position as assistant basketball coach at the University of Kentucky and has accepted the head coaching job for the men’s basketball program at the University of South Florida.
In related hoops news, FIBA Basketball World Cup will take place in several Spanish cities from 30 August to 14 September 2014. The event carries a new name for the FIBA World Championship that has been taking place since 1950.
The Dominican Republic qualified to participate in the event for the Americas, together with Mexico, Puerto Rico and Argentina,. The US is participating as Olympic Champions and Spain as host country. For Oceania the participants are Australia and New Zealand. Europe is represented by France, Lithuania, Croatia, Slovenia, Ukraine and Serbia. Africa is represented by Angola, Egypt and Senegal. While Asia has three representatives: Iran, the Philippines and Korea.
Games are scheduled to be played in Madrid, Sevilla, Granada, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Bilbao and Barcelona.
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