1990 FIBA World Championship

The 1990 FIBA World Championship was the 11th FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship for men's national teams. It was hosted by Argentina from 8 to 19 August 1990. The final phase of the competition was held at the Luna Park, Buenos Aires.

Yugoslavia emerged as the tournament winner. This was the last World Championship in which the country participated before its dissolution. Likewise, the Soviet Union participated in its final tournament before its dissolution.

This was the first ever FIBA World Championship (now called FIBA Basketball World Cup) tournament, in which non-American current NBA players that had also already played in an official regular season NBA game could participate.

Qualification
There were 16 teams taking part in the 1990 World Cup of Basketball.


 * Host nation: 1 berth
 * FIBA Americas: 12 teams competing for 5 berths
 * FIBA Europe: 8 teams competing for 5 berths
 * FIBA Oceania: 2 teams competing for 1 berths
 * FIBA Asia: 15 teams competing for 2 berths
 * FIBA Africa: 11 teams competing for 2 berths

Quarterfinal round
The top two finishers from Groups I and II advance to the final round.

Awards
Team Roster: Dražen Petrović, Velimir Perasović, Zoran Čutura, Toni Kukoč, Žarko Paspalj, Jure Zdovc, Željko Obradović, Radisav Ćurčić, Vlade Divac, Arijan Komazec, Zoran Jovanović, and Zoran Savić. Head coach: Dušan Ivković

All-Tournament Team

 * Oscar Schmidt (Brazil)
 * Toni Kukoč (Yugoslavia)
 * Vlade Divac (Yugoslavia)
 * Kenny Anderson (USA)
 * Fico López (Puerto Rico)

Top scorers (ppg)
Source:


 * 1) Oscar Schmidt (Brazil) 34.6
 * 2) Antonello Riva (Italy) 30.3
 * 3) Panagiotis Giannakis (Greece) 26.0
 * 4) Andrew Gaze (Australia) 24.3
 * 5) Jordi Villacampa (Spain) 23.0
 * 6) Kim Kim (S.Korea) 22.1
 * 7) Gabriel Estaba (Venezuela) 21.5
 * 8) Wang Fei (China) 19.4
 * 9) Kenny Anderson (USA) 18.8
 * 10) Valeri Tikhonenko (USSR) 18.5