FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification the 1994 FIBA World Championship in Canada. This setup continued until the 2002 FIBA World Championship in the USA which were also the Olympic champions; the supposed berth for the Olympic champions were instead given to Americas, the USA's home zone. In the 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan that saw the field expand to 24 teams, with four invited teams popularly called as "wild cards" were invited by FIBA. This setup will last until 2014, when FIBA announced that they were renaming the competition as the "FIBA Basketball World Cup". In 2012, FIBA announced that the supposed 2018 world
2019 United States FIBA Basketball World Cup team spots in the second round of the qualifying stage and finally for seven World Cup berths. To be eligible for the World Cup, the U.S. first had to participate in the 2017 FIBA AmeriCup. The United States had not played in the FIBA Americas tournament since 2007; they had been exempt from qualifying, having won every prior Olympics and world championships. Players for the qualifying squads are chosen by a USA Basketball qualification committee. Their teams are made up of players primarily from the NBA G League, since FIBA had changed the World Cup qualifiers from summer to year-round, most