Fourteen players remain in the preparation of the Slovenian National Team as Head Coach Jure Zdovc cut Sasha Vujacic and Miha Zupan. The last two players to be left out will be decided after the friendlies against Bulgaria and Greece.

In an interview to the newspaper Sportday and in the frame of the Acropolis tournament held in Greece with Serbia, Lithuania and Russia participating, Viktor Khryapa named Greece and Spain as top candidates for the Eurobasket.

Croatia may have won the international tournament held in Bamberg, they lost Marko Tomas however, who got injured and will be sidelined for at least 2-3 weeks, missing the Eurobasket.

Leading scorer Ibrahim Jaaber won't play at the EuroBasket for Bulgaria because of his Muslim faith, the country's basketball federation has revealed.

The second round of Seville Tournament continued with another win (89-71) for Spain NT against a tough Slovenia which only started to loose the game after their coach Jure Zdovc was drive out of the game. For spanish side, Marc Gasol played again a great game, while his rival Erazem Lorbek had great minutes on the court.

Belgium grabbed the win in Portugal and topped Group A of the Additional Qualifying Round of the Eurobasket 2009 in Poland. They will now face France in a game that will determine the last participant of the tournament.

Yesterday Latvia lost to Serbia after two overtimes in Athens, today's game turned out to be a blow out for the Latvians against Greece. The hosts beat the team from the Baltic Sea 80-52.

Great Britain suffered a second heavy loss in four nations tournament in Spain after losing against Lithuania. Eurobasket 2007 bronze medalists made and impressive start and had a comfortable 18 point lead at the end of the first quarter. Although the Brits were able to come closer in the second quarter, they were down by 12 at the half time.

Great Britain crashed 84-63 to reigning World champions Spain in their opening game of the Tourneo De Sevilla - a four team warm-up tournament for Poland next month.

Preparation games for the upcoming Eurobasket in Poland are taking place all over Europe right now. Yesterday was the openning day of the Iternational Seville tournament with Spain, Great Britain, Lithuania and Slovenia participating.