The Norwegian national basketball team, regulated by Norges Basketballforbund, is the basketball

Basketball

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 side that represents Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 in international competitions.

Its first match was played in 1966, when Norway lost 39-74 to Iceland. The most capped player is Torgeir Bryn

Torgeir Bryn

Torgeir Bryn is a Norwegian professional basketball player. A 6'9" and 250 lb center. Bryn is notable for being the only Norwegian who has played in the NBA thus far.-USA:...

, with 111 caps.

Norway has tried qualifying for the Eurobasket

Eurobasket

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 competition several times, but never made it. They only entered the Olympic qualification once, for the 1988 Summer Olympics

1988 Summer Olympics

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.

Roster

Position	Player	Current Club
Guard	Audun Eskeland	Ulriken Eagles Ulriken Eagles Ulriken Elite is a Norwegian basketball team playing in BLNO. It was formed in 1970 by a group of pupils at Ulriken secondary school. Ulriken play their matches in Haukelandshallen in Bergen...
Guard	Christer Elgmork	3B/Bærums Verk
Guard	Espen L. Stien	Asker Aliens
Guard	Mustafa Mahnin	Asker Aliens
Guard	Lars Jæger Torkildsen	Asker Aliens
Guard	Daniel Berg	3B/Bærums Verk
Guard	William Pavlic	Njård Basket Njård IL SK Njård is a Norwegian multi-sports club from Vestre Aker, Oslo. It is named after Njörðr in Norse mythology.Founded in 1924, it has sections for alpine skiing, fencing, team handball, cross-country skiing, tennis, gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics, orienteering together with IL Heming , and has...
Guard & Forward	Fredrik Knutsen	Kristiansand Pirates
Forward	Arne Danielsen	UNC Pembroke University of North Carolina at Pembroke The University of North Carolina at Pembroke , also known as UNC Pembroke, is a public, co-educational, historically American Indian liberal arts university in the town of Pembroke in Robeson County, North Carolina....
Forward	Thor Afam Hagen	Kongsberg Penguins
Forward	Ronny Karlsen	Trondheim Tornadoes
Center	Lars Gunnar Sønsteby	Kongsberg Penguins

Notable players

• Torgeir Bryn
  Torgeir Bryn
  Torgeir Bryn is a Norwegian professional basketball player. A 6'9" and 250 lb center. Bryn is notable for being the only Norwegian who has played in the NBA thus far.-USA:...
  
   - the first Scandinavian and the only Norwegian who has played in the NBA
  National Basketball Association
  The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...
  
  and the most capped player for the Norway national basketball team, with 111 matches.

External links

• Official site
• Eurobasket