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The FIBA Basketball World Cup All-Tournament Team is an award, that is given by FIBA, to the five best players of the FIBA Basketball World Cup. The 2023 tournament marked the first time an All-Second Team was selected. [1]
Oscar Schmidt and Wlamir Marques of Brazil have the most All-Tournament team awards awards with three each. [2]
* | Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |
** | Inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame |
*** | Inducted into both the Naismith and FIBA Halls of Fame |
Denotes player who is still active | |
Player (X) | Denotes the number of times the player has been selected |
Player (in bold text) | Indicates the player who won the event's Most Valuable Player award |
The following table only lists players with more than one total selections.
* | Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |
** | Inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame |
*** | Inducted into both the Naismith and FIBA Halls of Fame |
Denotes player who is still active |
Player | Position | Team | Total | First team | Second team | MVP | Tournaments |
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Wlamir Marques** | Forward | Brazil | 3 | 3 | — | 1 | 1954, 1959, 1963, 1970 |
Oscar Schmidt*** | Forward | Brazil | 3 | 3 | — | 0 | 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990 |
Amaury Pasos** | Forward | Brazil | 2 | 2 | — | 1 | 1954, 1959, 1963, 1967 |
Pau Gasol* | Center | Spain | 2 | 2 | — | 1 | 2002, 2006, 2014 |
Krešimir Ćosić*** | Center | Yugoslavia | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 1967, 1970, 1974, 1978 |
Modestas Paulauskas** | Forward | Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 1967, 1970, 1974 |
Dragan Kićanović** | Guard | Yugoslavia | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 1974, 1978, 1982 |
Vladimir Tkachenko** | Center | Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 1978, 1982, 1986 |
Manu Ginóbili* | Guard | Argentina | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 1998, 2002, 2006 |
Luis Scola | Forward | Argentina | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2019 |
Miloš Teodosić | Guard | Serbia | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 2010, 2014 |
Bogdan Bogdanović | Guard | Serbia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2014, 2019, 2023 |
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