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
East Germany national basketball team the SED banned its basketball players from traveling to non-socialist countries and immensely limited the sponsorship and promotion of talents. Soon, this meant the end of East German international basketball success, which ceded completely after 1973. East Germany national basketball team East Germany's national basketball team represented the German Democratic Republic between 1955 and 1973. Its biggest success was at the EuroBasket 1963 in Wrocław when it finished 6th out of 16. After the Second World War, only one German national basketball team existed. At the EuroBasket 1953, a unified German team competed with four East German players and finished