This year’s EuroBasket 2025 competition is the 42nd edition of the EuroBasket championship, which represents the quadrennial international men’s basketball championship organized by FIBA Europe.
The tournament will be co-hosted by Cyprus, Finland, Poland, and Latvia, and it will take place from August 27 to September 14.
On Wednesday, the Turkish Basketball Federation announced their preliminary squad for the competition, and it is headlined by a star big man in Alperen Sengun.
An NBA All-Star with the Rockets, Sengun will report back to Houston after the competition ends to prepare for the upcoming 2025-26 campaign.
Turkey’s preliminary roster is as follows:
Turkey will compete in Group A, which features Serbia, Czechia, Estonia, Portugal, and host nation Latvia as opponents. Group-stage games will be played in Riga, Latvia.
This article originally appeared on Rockets Wire: Rockets star Alperen Sengun to play for Turkey in FIBA EuroBasket 2025
Reporting by Ben DuBose, Rockets Wire / Rockets Wire
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