2010 FIBA World Championship final

Both teams qualified to the tournament automatically, the United States by winning the gold medal at the Olympics in Beijing, and Turkey as hosts.[3] Historically, the teams were polar opposites. America had 16 Summer Olympics medals and 10 FIBA World Cup medals, while Turkey's only previous international medal of any kind was a silver at the EuroBasket 2001. The US brought the top scoring offense into the final, averaging 94.3 points and 18.5 assists per game. Nevertheless, Turkey's vaunted 2–1–2 zone made it the top defensive team (64 points per game) in the tournament heading into the final,[4] and a commentator on NBA.com wrote that the European crowd would "be the most hostile crowd most of these [U.S.] players, with the exception of maybe Chauncey Billups and Lamar Odom, have ever seen."[4]

The U.S. had an easier route to the final, winning all of their games in runaway fashion, with the sole exception of their preliminary round game against Brazil. Turkey, on the other hand, had close games against Puerto Rico in the preliminary round, and against Serbia in the semifinals, in which Kerem Tunçeri scored the go-ahead basket, with less than a second left, after picking up Hedo Türkoğlu's fumble, to give Turkey the 83–82 win. Both teams were undefeated going into the final.[3]

Turkey		Round	USA
Opponent	Result	Group stage	Opponent	Result
Ivory Coast	86–47	Match 1	Croatia	106–78
Russia	65–56	Match 2	Slovenia	99–77
Greece	76–65	Match 3	Brazil	70–68
Puerto Rico	79–77	Match 4	Iran	88–51
China	87–40	Match 5	Tunisia	92–57
Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Turkey 5 5 0 393 285 +108 10 Russia 5 4 1 365 346 +19 9 Greece 5 3 2 403 370 +33 8 China 5 1 4 360 422 −62 6 Puerto Rico 5 1 4 386 401 −15 6 Côte d'Ivoire 5 1 4 334 417 −83 6		Final standing	Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts USA 5 5 0 455 331 +124 10 Slovenia 5 4 1 393 376 +17 9 Brazil 5 3 2 398 354 +44 8 Croatia 5 2 3 395 407 −12 7 Iran 5 1 4 301 367 −66 6 Tunisia 5 0 5 300 407 −107 5
Opponent	Result	Knockout stage	Opponent	Result
France	95–77	Round of 16	Angola	121–66
Slovenia	95–68	Quarter-finals	Russia	89–79
Serbia	83–82	Semifinals	Lithuania	89–74

The game was close for the first half — Turkey even led at one point during the first quarter — but the American athleticism was too much for the Turks, and the U.S. was able to pull away on easy baskets.[5]

Kevin Durant was the game's leading scorer, with 28 points, including seven three-point field goals. Durant scored 20 of his points in the first half. Lamar Odom came up big when it mattered most, scoring all fifteen of his points in the second half, and grabbing eleven rebounds overall. Hedo Türkoğlu was Turkey's leading scorer with 16 points, despite suffering a knee injury during the first half.[6] Ersan İlyasova had seven points and eleven rebounds.[5]

With the win, Mike Krzyzewski became the first U.S. national basketball head coach to win an Olympic Gold Medal and a FIBA World Cup.[5] The U.S. also clinched an automatic berth in the 2012 Summer Olympics.[5]

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Report

Turkey	64–81	United States
Scoring by quarter: 17–22, 15–20, 16–19, 16–20
Pts: Türkoğlu 16 Rebs: İlyasova 11 Asts: Tunçeri 5		Pts: Durant 28 Rebs: Odom 11 Asts: Rose 6

Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul Attendance: 15,000 Referees: Cristiano Jesus Maranho (BRA), Luigi Lamonica (ITA), Juan Arteaga (ESP)

Turkey

United States

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 10 Kerem Tunçeri 7 2 5 SG 7 Ömer Onan 7 0 1 SF 15 Hidayet Türkoğlu 16 7 1 PF 8 Ersan İlyasova 7 11 0 C 14 Ömer Aşık 5 4 0 Reserves: G 4 Cenk Akyol 0 0 0 G 5 Sinan Güler 0 0 0 G 6 Barış Ermiş 0 0 0 C 9 Semih Erden 9 0 0 C 11 Oğuz Savaş 0 2 0 F 12 Kerem Gönlüm 4 6 1 G 13 Ender Arslan 6 0 1 Head coach: Bogdan Tanjević

Game rules Game was played under FIBA rules. Sinan Erdem Dome 2010 World Champions United States 4th title

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 4 Chauncey Billups 4 3 2 SG 6 Derrick Rose 8 1 6 SF 9 Andre Iguodala 4 5 3 PF 5 Kevin Durant 28 5 0 C 14 Lamar Odom 15 11 0 Reserves: G 7 Russell Westbrook 13 6 3 F 8 Rudy Gay 6 4 0 F 10 Danny Granger 0 0 0 G 11 Stephen Curry 3 0 0 G 12 Eric Gordon   DNP F 13 Kevin Love 0 1 0 C 15 Tyson Chandler 0 0 0 Head coach: Mike Krzyzewski

• FIBA official website
• EuroBasket.com FIBA Basketball World Cup Page