1999 Tournament of the Americas

1999 Tournament of the Americas

Tournament details
Host country	Puerto Rico
City	San Juan
Dates	July 14–25
Teams	10
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	United States (4th title)
Runners-up	Canada
Third place	Argentina
Fourth place	Puerto Rico
Tournament statistics
MVP	Steve Nash[1]
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The 1999 Tournament of the Americas, later known as the FIBA Americas Championship and the FIBA AmeriCup (also known as Las Americas Tournament for Men, the FIBA Americas Olympic Qualifying Tournament, or Panamerican Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men), was a basketball championship hosted by Puerto Rico, from July 14 to July 25, 1999. The games were played in San Juan, at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum. This FIBA AmeriCup was to earn the two berths allocated to the Americas for the 2000 Olympics, in Sydney, Australia. The United States won the tournament, the country's fourth AmeriCup championship.

Qualification[]

Eight teams qualified during the qualification tournaments held in their respective zones in 1999; two teams (USA and Canada) qualified automatically since they are the only members of the North America zone.

• North America:  Canada,  United States
• Caribbean and Central America: Cuba,  Dominican Republic,  Panama,  Puerto Rico
• South America:  Argentina,  Brazil,  Uruguay,  Venezuela

The draw split the tournament into two groups:

Format[]

• The top four teams from each group advance to the quarterfinals.
• Results and standings among teams within the same group are carried over.
• The top four teams at the quarterfinals advance to the semifinals (1 vs. 4, 2 vs. 3).
• The winners in the knockout semifinals advance to the Final and were granted berths in the 2000 Summer Olympics tournament in Sydney. The losers figure in a third-place playoff.

Squads[]

Preliminary round[]

Qualified for the quarterfinals

Group A[]

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
United States	4	4	0	403	256	+147	8
Canada	4	3	1	292	291	+1	7
Argentina	4	2	2	320	337	−17	6
Uruguay	4	1	3	302	379	−77	5
Cuba	4	0	4	277	331	−54	4

Group B[]

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Puerto Rico	4	4	0	365	310	+55	8
Venezuela	4	3	1	293	287	+6	7
Brazil	4	2	2	316	324	−8	6
Dominican Republic	4	1	3	302	316	−14	5
Panama	4	0	4	289	328	−39	4

Quarterfinal group[]

Qualified for the semifinals

The top four teams in both Group A and Group B advanced to the quarterfinal group. Then each team played the four from the other group once to complete a full round robin. Records from the preliminary groups carried over.

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
United States	7	7	0	710	485	+225	14
Canada	7	5	2	552	500	+52	12
Puerto Rico	7	5	2	625	594	+31	12
Argentina	7	5	2	599	576	+23	12
Venezuela	7	3	4	491	561	−70	10
Brazil	7	2	5	551	589	−38	9
Uruguay	7	1	6	515	646	−131	8
Dominican Republic	7	0	7	502	594	−92	7

Knockout stage[]

	Semi-finals				Final
	July 24
	United States	88
					July 25
	Argentina	59
					United States	92
	July 24
					Canada	66
	Canada	83
	Puerto Rico	71
					Third place
					July 25
					Argentina	103
					Puerto Rico	101

Awards[]

1999 Tournament of the Americas Winners
United States Fourth title

Most Valuable Player
Steve Nash

Final standings[]

Qualified for the 2000 Summer Olympics

Rank	Team	Record
	United States	10–0
	Canada	7–3
	Argentina	7–3
4	Puerto Rico	6–4
5	Venezuela	4–4
6	Brazil	3–5
7	Dominican Republic	2–6
8	Uruguay	1–7
9	Panama	0–4
10	Cuba	0–4

United States Tim Duncan Allan Houston Steve Smith Vin Baker Kevin Garnett Jason Kidd Gary Payton Tim Hardaway Tom Gugliotta Elton Brand Richard Hamilton Wally Szczerbiak	Canada Richard Elias Anderson Rowan Barrett Peter Guarasci Andrew Mavis Michael Meeks Shawn Swords Keith Vassell Steve Nash Greg Newton Todd MacCulloch Sherman Hamilton	Argentina Alejandro Montecchia Lucas Victoriano Leandro Palladino Andrés Nocioni Hugo Sconochini Juan Espil Manu Ginóbili Gabriel Fernández Luis Scola Leonardo Gutiérrez

References[]

External links[]

• FIBA Americas 1999 - Men Basketball, Latinbasket.com.
• 1999 Panamerican Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men, FIBA.com.