The USA Basketball Men's National Team, commonly known as the United States men's national basketball team, is the basketball team representing the United States. It is the most successful team in international competition, winning medals in all nineteen Olympic tournaments it has entered, including sixteen golds. In the professional era, the team won the Olympic gold medal in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020. Two of its gold medal-winning teams were inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in August 2010: the 1960 team, which featured six Hall of Famers, and the 1992 "Dream Team", featuring 14 Hall of Famers. The team is currently ranked first in the FIBA World Rankings.
Theodore Robinson is an American sportscaster. Since 2000, Robinson has been with NBC Sports as a play-by-play announcer for tennis and Olympic swimming/diving and with NBC Sports Network calling college football and basketball. He also works for the Tennis Channel and the Pac-12 Network and was the radio play-by-play announcer for the San Francisco 49ers from 2009 until 2018.
Sattar Zare is an Iranian football coach and former player who currently manages Bargh Shiraz. He played both the wing-back and midfield positions.
Bargh Shiraz Football Club is an Iranian football club based in Shiraz, Iran.موسسه فرهنگى ورزشى برق شيراز The club is currently in the Iran Football's 3rd Division after they were relegated from Iran Football's 2nd Division due to financial problems. Its main sponsor is the municipal electrical company.
Paykan Football Club is a football team based in Tehran, Iran. The team is sponsored by Iran's main automobile manufacturer Iran Khodro and is named after one of its older products; the Paykan car. Paykan F.C. is the football club of the multisport Paykan Sport Club which also includes basketball and volleyball teams.
Mehrzad Madanchi Ardekani is an Iranian former football midfielder who last played for Fajr Sepasi.
Jay Michael DeMerit is an American retired soccer player who played as a center back.
Stuart Alistair Holden is a Scottish-born American former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder, and is currently a lead TV game analyst for Fox Sports. Holden is part of the ownership group for Spanish La Liga football club, RCD Mallorca.
Steven Serio is a wheelchair basketball player. As a co-captain of the USA Men's National Wheelchair Basketball Team, he led the American men to their first Paralympic gold medal since 1988 at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Games and defended the gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. He currently plays for the New York Rolling Knicks in the NWBA Championship Division.
Fajr Shahid Sepasi Shiraz Football Club, commonly known as Fajr Sepasi Shiraz, or Fajr Sepasi, is an Iranian football club based in Shiraz, Fars, that competes in the Persian Gulf Pro League. The club was founded in 1988.
Hamed Ehdadi Haddadi is an Iranian former professional basketball player. He played at the center position and is 7'2" tall and weighs 254 lbs. Haddadi was the first Iranian to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA) when he debuted with the Memphis Grizzlies in 2008. He played with the Grizzlies until 2013 before bouncing around the league with the Toronto Raptors and the Phoenix Suns. In 2013, he returned home to Iran before playing in China. He is now playing in Palayesh Naft Abadan BC
The Virgin Islands national basketball team are the basketball players who represent the U.S. Virgin Islands in international competitions.
The NBA All-Star Game Kobe Bryant Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given to the player(s) voted best of the annual All-Star Game. The award was established in 1953 when NBA officials decided to designate an MVP for each year's game. The league also re-honored players from the previous two All-Star Games. Ed Macauley and Paul Arizin were selected as the 1951 and 1952 MVP winners respectively. The winner is voted upon by a panel of media members, who cast their vote after the conclusion of the game. The fan voting accounts for 25% of the voting. The player(s) with the most votes or ties for the most votes wins the award. In February 2020, Commissioner Adam Silver renamed the NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player in honor of four-time winner Kobe Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash a few weeks earlier.
Gholamreza Rezaei is a retired Iranian football player who last played for Sepidrood as a forward in the Iran Pro League.
Louleh a.s Shiraz was a professional Iranian basketball club based in Shiraz, Iran. The team competes in the Iranian Basketball Super League.
Glad Tudor Bugariu is a Romanian football manager who has coached the U.S. Virgin Islands, Grenada, the Football Association of Moldova and various teams in the United States top division, the NCAA. Currently he is the head women's coach with the Mount Olive Trojans in the NCAA D2, having left his position as the First Team Head Coach and Director of Women's Soccer with Wake FC which competes in the USL W-league in the United States in January. Over the course of his career, Bugariu has worked with the national teams of four countries in various competitions such as the men's and women's FIFA World Cup qualifiers, Under 19 Women's Championships qualifiers, the men's and women's Gold Cup, Windward Islands Football Championship and the Under 20 World Championship qualifiers.
Mohammad Hassanzadeh Saberi Akhlaghi is an Iranian professional basketball player. He currently plays for Zob Ahan Isfahan in the Iranian Super League as well as for the Iranian national basketball team, as a forward. He participated in his first major international competition for the Iranian team at the 2010 FIBA World Championship in Turkey. He is 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) tall.
The Iran Job is a documentary directed by Till Schauder and produced by Sara Nodjoumi about Kevin Sheppard, a professional American basketball player, as he plays in Shiraz, Iran for the A.S. Shiraz team in the Iranian Super League. The documentary was filmed in Iran in the winter of 2008–2009, a few months before the uprising of Iran's Green Movement.
Till Schauder, is a German-born American filmmaker, film director, screenplay writer, film producer, actor and film instructor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and co-producer, Sara Nodjoumi.
The men's national basketball team of the United States won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. The Olympics were delayed a year until 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal for the Americans. Team USA qualified for the Olympics by finishing as one of the top two teams from the Americas at the FIBA Basketball World Cup in 2019.
