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Australia men's national basketball team

Australia men's national basketball team

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The Australia men's national basketball team, nicknamed the Boomers after the slang term for an adult male kangaroo, represents Australia in international basketball competition. Since the late 1980s, the Boomers have placed themselves among the world's elite basketball teams, making Summer Olympic Games and FIBA World Cup semi-final appearances on many occasions. Originally a member of the FIBA Oceania region, Australia nowadays competes at the FIBA Asia Cup where the Boomers were the dominant team at their first appearance. The FIBA Oceania Championship mostly consisted of a three-match competition against the other regional power, the New Zealand Tall Blacks. Before the formation of the National Basketball League (NBL) in 1979, Boomers players were selected from state leagues around the country, with Victoria, South Australia, and to a lesser extent New South Wales the dominant states. After the formation of the NBL, players began to be selected almost exclusively from that competition...

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