Yusuf Nurkic, the NBA player and star of the Bosnian national team, publicly blames the country's basketball association. Already last summer, when the team's participation in EuroBasket 2022 was called into question due to funding problems, the center lashed out at the organization.
A year later, in the pre-Olympic qualifying tournament, it turns out that the situation has not changed: "I can't say that this circus doesn't affect us. Every year we have big problems. We don't get the basics, we have no one to turn to.
Desnan Musa. Also on the national team, photo: FIBA
Nurkic, one of the few NBA players to attend the tournament, continued: "We're getting much better results than the conditions we were given. We don't have proper conditions, four players sleep in one room. We went to Poland to win the tournament. We don't have a fitness trainer, the reality here is a circus."
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Bosnia plays in Group B, which is equivalent to Israel, and may meet our team in the semi-finals at the intersection of the two groups. They are 1-1 after beating Portugal and losing to host Poland.
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