Panama national basketball team

Panama
FIBA Ranking	28th
Joined FIBA	1958
FIBA Zone	FIBA Americas
National Federation	Federación Panameña de Baloncesto
Coach	David Rosario
Olympic Games
Appearances	1
Medals	None
World Championships
Appearances	4
Medals	None
FIBA Americas Championship
Appearances	9
Medals	None
Uniforms
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The Panama national basketball team are the basketball side that represent Panama in international competitions.

Current roster

Panama

Panama National Basketball Team roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Name Age - DOB Ht. Club Club nat. 3.5 !F 4 Degracia, Reyjavick &1000000000000002900000029 - November 5, 1981(1981-11-05) 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) Navieros de Colón Panama ! 1.0 !PG 5 Warren, Jamar &1000000000000003200000032 - February 18, 1979(1979-02-18) 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Toros de Aragua Venezuela ! 2.0 !SG 6 Pinnock, J. R. &1000000000000002700000027 - December 11, 1983(1983-12-11) 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) Capitanes de Arecibo Puerto Rico ! 3.5 !F 7 Robinson, Ariel &1000000000000002200000022 - February 14, 1989(1989-02-14) 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) Fayetteville State University USA ! 5.0 !C 8 Archibold, Eduardo &1000000000000002400000024 - May 19, 1987(1987-05-19) 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 2.0 !SG 9 Forbes, Gary &1000000000000002600000026 - February 25, 1985(1985-02-25) 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) Denver Nuggets USA ! 3.5 !F 10 Ayarza, Josimar &1000000000000002400000024 - May 3, 1987(1987-05-03) 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 9 de Julio de Río Tercero Argentina ! 5.0 !C 11 Tesis, Joel &1000000000000002900000029 - March 19, 1982(1982-03-19) 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) ESPOL Ecuador ! 4.0 !PF 12 Pomare, Leonardo &1000000000000002500000025 - April 5, 1986(1986-04-05) 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) Sendai 89ers Japan ! 3.0 !SF 13 Smith, Desmond Alexis &1000000000000002400000024 - November 24, 1986(1986-11-24) 1.99 m (6 ft 6 in) Magnates Panama ! 5.0 !C 14 Lloreda, Jose &1000000000000003000000030 - November 10, 1980(1980-11-10) 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) Atléticos de San Germán Puerto Rico ! 5.0 !C 15 Garcés, Rubén &1000000000000003700000037 - October 17, 1973(1973-10-17) 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) Asociación Deportiva Atenas Argentina !	Head coach David Rosario Legend nat field describes country of last club before the tournament Age field is age on August 30, 2011

Olympic Games

• 1968: 12th

FIBA World championship

• 1970: 9th
• 1982: 9th
• 1986: 19th
• 2006: 21st

Pan American Games

• 1951: 6th place
• 1967: 3rd place
• 1971: 6th place
• 1979: 7th place
• 1987: 6th place
• 2007: 5th place

FIBA Americas championship

• 2011: 8th place

Central American championship

• 1995: 4th place
• 1997: did not compete
• 1999: 4th place
• 2001: 3rd place
• 2003: did not compete
• 2004: 3rd place
• 2006: 1st place
• 2008: 6th place
• 2010: 3rd place

Rosters

1968 Olympic Games: finished 12th among 16 teams

Davis Peralta, Norris Webb, Luis Sinclair, Pedro Rivas, Eliecer Ellis, Calixto Malcom, Nicolás Noé Alvarado, Ernesto Arturo Agard, Francisco Checa, Julio Osorio, Pércibal Eduardo Blades, Ramón Reyes (Coach: Eugenio Luzcando)

1970 World Championship: finished 9th among 13 teams

Davis Peralta, Luis Sinclair, Pedro Rivas, Ernesto Arturo Agard, Julio Osorio, Pércibal Eduardo Blades, Julio Andrade, Herbert Cousins, Ronald Walton, Cecilio Straker, Mario Peart, Hector Montalvo (Coach: Carl Pirelli Minetti)

1982 World Championship: finished 9th among 13 teams

Ernesto "Tito" Malcolm, Rolando Frazer, Mario Butler, Rodolfo Gill, Fernando Pinillo, Reggie Grenald, Braulio Rivas, Arturo Brown, Mario Galvez, Adolfo Medrick, Eddie Joe Chávez, Alfonso Smith (Coach: Jim Baron)

1986 World Championship: finished 19th among 24 teams

Ernesto "Tito" Malcolm, Mario Butler, Rolando Frazer, Reggie Grenald, Rodolfo Gill, Fernando Pinillo, Braulio Rivas, Adolfo Medrick, Cirilo Escalona, Mario Gálvez, Enrique Grenald, Daniel Macias (Coach: Frank Holness)

2006 World Championship: finished 21st among 24 teams

Ed Cota, Rubén Garcés, Jaime Lloreda, Ruben Douglas, Michael Hicks, Maximiliano "Max" Gómez, Eric Omar Cardenas, Kevin Daley, Antonio Enrique García, Jair Peralta, Jamaal Levy, Dionisio Gómez (Coach: Guillermo Edgardo Vecchio)

Panama Pipeline

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, various Panama players played their college basketball in the United States at NAIA school Briar Cliff College as part of head coach Ray Nacke's "Panama Pipeline". Some of the members included national team members Rolando Frazier, Ernesto "Tito" Malcolm, Mario Butler, Eddie Warren, Reggie Grenald, and Mario Galvez. These players helped Briar Cliff to many NAIA Regional Championships, National Tournament appearances, and in 1981 the Chargers were ranked No. 1 in the nation in the NAIA's final regular season poll.

The new millennium brought another set of very good players from Panama, coming out of the local Superior Basketball Circuit (CBS), the under 21 team, and local players playing in Division 1 Universities in the United States. Panama has gone to 4 preolympic tournaments, 5 pre-world championships, one world championship (Japan)in 2006, and one youth basketball olympics (Singapore 2010)since the year 2000. The local program is based in neighborhood leagues that collect talent and export it to the United States. This symbiotic philosophy produces back the talent for the National Team.

Usually underrated and underestimated, Panama Basketball always manages to qualify to big tournaments and give stunning surprises, such as beating the United States in the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2007. Its long basketball tradition dating back to 1904, and its street basketball mentality of fighting hard to the end in basketball games, has made this Central American basketball program a "Classic" in the international scene.