The Czech national basketball team is the national basketball team representing Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

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Eurobasket 1999

At Eurobasket 1999 in France Czech national team took 12th place after beating Lithuania

Lithuania national basketball team

The Lithuanian national basketball team is the representative for Lithuania in international men's basketball. Lithuania won bronze medals in three out of five Olympic tournaments it participated in....

 and Greece

Greece national basketball team

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 in the group phase. Luboš Bartoň

Luboš Barton

Luboš Bartoň is a Czech professional basketball player. He is a 2.02 m tall small forward.-College career:Bartoň played college basketball at Valparaiso University with the Valparaiso Crusaders from 1998-02....

 became 2nd best scorer of the tournament (18.7 points per game).

Roster

Position	Player	Current Club
Guard	Maurice Whitfield Maurice Whitfield Maurice Lamar Whitfield is a Czech national basketball team player, originally from the United States.Whitfield played several seasons in Nymburk, leading the team to the Czech Championship. He played for Ural Great Perm in the Russian Super League...	Olympiada Patras Olympiada Patras Olympiada Patras BC, or AEP Olympias Patras BC, is a Greek professional basketball club that is located in Patras, Greece.- History :The basketball team participated in the Greek A2 League from 1977 until 1981. The club competed in the Greek A1 League in the 2006-07 season and the 2007-08 season...
Guard	Pavel Beneš Pavel Beneš Pavel Beneš was a chief designer at ČKD-Praga, one of the largest engineering companies in the former Czechoslovakia and today's Czech Republic....	ČEZ Basketball Nymburk CEZ Basketball Nymburk ČEZ Basketball Nymburk is a professional basketball team that plays in the top professional Czech basketball league, the NBL. The team is based in the town of Nymburk. The club's main sponsor is ČEZ, a Czech energy company.-History:...
Guard	Štěpán Vrubl	BC Brno BC Brno BC Brno is a Czech professional basketball club based in the city of Brno. They used to play in the Czech National Basketball League - the highest competition in the Czech republic. A European powerhouse during the 60s and until the mid 70s, they lost two Euroleague finals in 1964 and 1968...
Forward	Jiří Welsch Jirí Welsch Jiří Welsch is a Czech professional basketball player with Spirou Basket of the Basketball League Belgium. Welsch has played in the National Basketball Association league in the United States, having been drafted in 2002 by the Philadelphia 76ers.-Early years:Welsch began his professional career...	Estudiantes Madrid
Forward	Luboš Bartoň Luboš Barton Luboš Bartoň is a Czech professional basketball player. He is a 2.02 m tall small forward.-College career:Bartoň played college basketball at Valparaiso University with the Valparaiso Crusaders from 1998-02....	Fuenlabrada Fuenlabrada Fuenlabrada is a city and municipality located in the Madrid Metropolitan Area, Community of Madrid, Spain. It is located to the southwest of the community, 22,5 km far from the capital, and had a population of 197,836 in 2009. Is the fourth biggest town of Madrid after the capital, Móstoles...
Forward	Ladislav Sokolovský	ČEZ Basketball Nymburk CEZ Basketball Nymburk ČEZ Basketball Nymburk is a professional basketball team that plays in the top professional Czech basketball league, the NBL. The team is based in the town of Nymburk. The club's main sponsor is ČEZ, a Czech energy company.-History:...
Forward	Jan Vesely Jan Veselý Jan Veselý is a Czech professional basketball player with the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association in the United States. Standing at 6 ft 11 in , Veselý plays the small forward and power forward positions...	Washington Wizards Washington Wizards The Washington Wizards are a professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C., previously known as Washington Bullets. They play in the National Basketball Association .-Early years:...
Forward	Lukáš Kraus	Kondoři Liberec
Forward	Michal Křemen	ČEZ Basketball Nymburk CEZ Basketball Nymburk ČEZ Basketball Nymburk is a professional basketball team that plays in the top professional Czech basketball league, the NBL. The team is based in the town of Nymburk. The club's main sponsor is ČEZ, a Czech energy company.-History:...
Forward	Pavel Miloš	BK Pardubice
Forward	Petr Benda	ČEZ Basketball Nymburk CEZ Basketball Nymburk ČEZ Basketball Nymburk is a professional basketball team that plays in the top professional Czech basketball league, the NBL. The team is based in the town of Nymburk. The club's main sponsor is ČEZ, a Czech energy company.-History:...
Forward	Radek Nečas	ČEZ Basketball Nymburk CEZ Basketball Nymburk ČEZ Basketball Nymburk is a professional basketball team that plays in the top professional Czech basketball league, the NBL. The team is based in the town of Nymburk. The club's main sponsor is ČEZ, a Czech energy company.-History:...
Center	Ondřej Starosta Ondrej Starosta - Player career :*1995/98 Slavia Praha*1998/00 Sparta Praha*2000/01 Real Madrid youth team*2001/02 Go Pass Pepinster*2002/03 Le Mans*2003/04 Saint Quentin Saos*2004/05 Espé Châlons-en-Champagne*2005/06 Strasbourg*2006/09 CAI Zaragoza...	Basket Zaragoza 2002 Basket Zaragoza 2002 Basket Zaragoza 2002 S. A. D., more commonly known as CAI Zaragoza by sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball team based in Zaragoza, Aragón, who currently plays in Liga ACB. It does it at Pabellón Príncipe Felipe.- History :...
Center	Jakub Houška	BK Děčín
Center	Zbyněk Pospíšil	BK Pardubice

Past rosters

1999 EuroBasket: finished 11th among 16 teams

Jiri Welsch, Lubos Barton, Jiri Okac, Pavel Becka, Petr Czudek, Martin Ides, Kamil Novak, Petr Welsch, Vladan Vahala, Marek Stuchly, David Klapetek, Petr Treml (Coach: Zdenek Hummel)

2007 EuroBasket: finished 15th among 16 teams

Jiri Welsch

Jirí Welsch

Jiří Welsch is a Czech professional basketball player with Spirou Basket of the Basketball League Belgium. Welsch has played in the National Basketball Association league in the United States, having been drafted in 2002 by the Philadelphia 76ers.-Early years:Welsch began his professional career...

, Maurice Whitfield

Maurice Whitfield

Maurice Lamar Whitfield is a Czech national basketball team player, originally from the United States.Whitfield played several seasons in Nymburk, leading the team to the Czech Championship. He played for Ural Great Perm in the Russian Super League...

, Lubos Barton

Luboš Barton

Luboš Bartoň is a Czech professional basketball player. He is a 2.02 m tall small forward.-College career:Bartoň played college basketball at Valparaiso University with the Valparaiso Crusaders from 1998-02....

, Petr Benda, Radek Necas, Ondrej Starosta, Pavel Benes, Michal Kremen, Lukas Kraus, Ladislav Sokolovsky, Stepan Vrubl, Jakub Houska (Coach: Zdenek Hummel)

See also

• Czech Republic women's national basketball team
• Czechoslovakia national basketball team
  Czechoslovakia national basketball team
  The Czechoslovakian national basketball team was the basketball side that represented Czechoslovakia in international competitions. After the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993, the Czech Republic and Slovakia set up their own national teams.- Medals :...
  
  
• Basketball in the Czech Republic
  Basketball in the Czech Republic
  Basketball in the Czech Republic is organized by Czech Basketball Federation .The top professional Czech basketball league is Mattoni National Basketball League . Participating in the competition are 12 clubs and the season lasts 9 months. The current champion is ČEZ Basketball Nymburk...