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Prior to the 1992 Summertime Olympics, just European and South American teams were allowed to field experts in the Olympics. The United States' dominance continued with the intro of the initial All-star team. In the 2004 Athens Olympics, the United States suffered its very first Olympic loss while using expert gamers, falling to Puerto Rico (in a 19-point loss) and Lithuania in group video games, and being eliminated in the semifinals by Argentina.

The Redeem Group, won gold at the 2008 Olympics, and the B-Team, won gold at the 2010 FIBA World Championship in Turkey despite featuring no players from the 2008 team. The United States continued its dominance as they won gold at the 2012 Olympics, 2014 FIBA World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.

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The worldwide popularity of the sport is shown in the nationalities represented in the NBA. Gamers from all six inhabited continents presently play in the NBA. Top global players started entering the NBA in the mid-1990s, including Croatians Draen Petrovi and Toni Kuko, Serbian Vlade Divac, Lithuanians Arvydas Sabonis and arnas Mariulionis, Dutchman Rik Smits and German Detlef Schrempf.

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It was founded as a "disobedience" of a number of groups from the now-defunct Manila Industrial and Commercial Athletic Association, which was firmly managed by the Basketball Association of the Philippines (now defunct), the then-FIBA recognized national association.  This Is Cool  from the MICAA took part in the league's first season that opened on April 9, 1975.

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The league began in 1979, playing a winter (April, September) and did so till the conclusion of the 20th season in 1998. The 199899 season, which began just months later on, was the first season after the shift to the existing summertime season format (October, April). This shift was an effort to avoid competing directly versus Australia's various football codes.