The Nauru national basketball team is the team that represents

Nauru Nauru, officially the Republic of Nauru, formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies within the Micronesia subregion of Oceania, with its nearest neighbour being Banaba (part of ...

in international

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. It is a member of

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. The national team was inactive in international competitive basketball for several years after participating at the 2001 Oceania Basketball Tournament in

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. Nauru initially planned to send a squad to the

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but withdrew due to undisclosed reasons. Eventually, it returned for the

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. Nauru had its best performance at the

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when it beat the

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, which have almost 60 times Nauru's population, and

, which has almost 100 times Nauru's population.

Current roster

At the

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on 3 July 2015 At Nauru's last game at the

against the

, Heine Kanimea was his team's top scorer as he contributed 21 of Nauru's 71 total points.2015 Pacific Games - Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Retrieved 28 January 2020.

Competitions

FIBA Oceania Championship

Pacific Games

Pacific Mini Games

Oceania Basketball Tournament

References

Videos

Pacific Games 2015 D5 BASKETBALL MEN KIRBATI vs NAURU
Youtube.com video {{FIBA Oceania teams Men's national basketball teams

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...

1963 establishments in Nauru Basketball teams established in 1963 National sports teams established in 1963