its 31 august- 18 sept
if anyone itnerested, here is the link for the tourney,
https://eurobasket2011.com/en/default.asp
the groups are pretty unbalanced, for example, turkey's group is the most powerful one, with spain, lithuania, poland, great britain(luol deng and one more guy from nba maybe ben gordon) in it.
And its counter group is pretty strong too, so among these two groups there will be two semi-finalists, which means, only two of spain, lithuania, lithuania,france ,germany, serbia, italy
From other two groups, C, D only remarkable teams are Croatia, Greece, Russia and Slovenia ( im not sure if kirilenko is playing for russia)
So there are gonna be great match ups on the A-B side while C-D will be pretty easy and most probably Russia and Greece will make the semis.
A spain with Ibaka, Navarro, Rudy, Gasol bros and Rubio is certain favourites for me. The other contenders are Lithuania, Turkey, Germany, Serbia, Russia, Greece . The rest doesnt have any chance at all, including parkers France(im not sure but noah maybe eligible for france as well)
The thing which lures all nba players into this tournament is this is the one before Olympics, so it will determine who will attend to Olympics from Europe