FIBA secretary general Andreas Zagklis, in his traditional end-of tournament news conference on Sunday, said basketball’s governing body is seeing the impact of recent decisions to increase the size of the field to 32 teams and to have 80 teams be part of the qualification process for those spots.
“Parity is good,” Zagklis said. “It’s good because it means competitiveness. It is excellent if it comes together with a higher level of play all the time. What we have achieved is we have reached a greater depth in the roster of countries. Nine of the 32 that came to this World Cup did not play in the previous World Cup.”
“The decision to open up to 80 teams the qualification has changed global basketball on the men’s side,” Zagklis said. “There’s no doubt about that. I do believe that we have seen very high-level basketball.” “It’s pride that we were able to host,” said Philippine businessman and sports backer Manuel V. Pangilinan, who was instrumental in bringing the World Cup to Manila. “It’d been quite some time since 1978, 45 years. I just thought the Philippines deserved it again.”
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