Ethiopia national basketball team Shenkutie led the team in points.<br> Omod Oman Ogud led his team in rebounds, Simon Tsegaye Kidane led his team in assists. Other current notable players from Ethiopia: Ethiopia national basketball team The Ethiopia national basketball team represents Ethiopia in international competitions. It is administrated by the Addis Ababa Basketball Federation. (Amharic: ኢትዮጵያ የቅርጫት ኳስ ማህበር) Ethiopia joined FIBA in 1949 and has Sub-Saharan Africa's longest basketball tradition. A founding member of the FIBA Africa Championship, the team once belonged to Africa's top 5 basketball teams. Since the mid-1960s, however, the team lost its international significance. Today, it aims to
Basketball in Lithuania was led by Georgian player Otar Korkia (17.3 points per game), along with Lithuanians Stepas Butautas (10.6 points) and Kazimieras Petkevičius (8.1 points). Two other Lithuanians, Justinas Lagunavičius and Stanislovas Stonkus, were also in the team. The four are regarded as the first Lithuania-born Olympic basketball players. Years later, Modestas Paulauskas served as the Soviet Union captain starting in 1969, and would lead the USSR to an historic upset of the United States at the 1972 Olympic Games, making them the first Olympic champions other than the Americans. According to journalist and future LKL employee Arūnas Pakula, "We felt like