1. Yugoslavia
2. Argentina
3. Germany
4. New Zealand
5. Spain
6. U.S.A
7. Puerto Rico
8. Brazil
9. Turkey
10. Russia

Just a bit of a reminder to those that still think USA is untouchable in the World Cup, anything can happen when it’s single elimination. Such as New Zealand coming out in 4th place without a single with one nba player on the roster.

Since the next big thing in Basketball World is FIBA World Cup, I've decided to make this post and introduce r/NBA to second favorites to win the whole thing, Serbia. I've made a similar post when USA and Serbia met in finals 3 years ago and it was pretty well received and sparked some nice discussions so this is why I decided to do this again but a little bit bigger and before the tournament starts, you can check that post here.

Regarding Serbia being second favorites, I am basing it on Gambling Odds where USA is the biggest favorite with around 1.15 odds of Winning (EU odds, so if you bet 100$ you win 115), Serbia is the second favorite on all of the sites, with odds around 9, and Spain is the third one with odds around 20.

But, I personally also feel like Serbia will easily be the second-best team in this tournament, no offense to anyone, and I will elaborate it in the post below.

It would be awesome if other Redditors were to post about their national teams similar to this post so we can get to know every team before the tournament starts.

Introduction:

Serbia is a runner-up from last 3 big tournaments, World Cup (2014) & Olympic Games (2016) where they lost to the USA both times, and European Championship (2017), where they lost to Slovenia who were led by Goran Dragic and pre-NBA Luka Doncic.

As mentioned above Serbia comes as a clear second favorite into this tournament based on their previous results, but more importantly, because this time every player that was invited has agreed to play and the fact that this National generation has the perfect blend of young players and veterans, so all players are around their primes.

Based on the media, and the vast majority of the people agree, this is the Strongest Serbian Basketball team since 2002 when they won the FIBA World Cup. That legendary team had 6 NBA players on its roster, including Divac, Stojakovic, Jaric, Radmanovic, as well as one of the biggest European legends Dejan Bodiroga.

This 2019 Serbian team will have 5 NBA players (one joined this summer), of which all play very important or decent roles on their team, or even 6 if you include Teodosic's last official game was for NBA team. Also, Serbia possibly has one of the top 3 players in this FIBA World Cup in Nikola Jokic (since most of the USA superstars canceled).

Serbia's Coach is still Aleksandar Djordjevic, w