Lebanon national basketball team
Lebanon 
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| FIBA ranking | 43  1 |
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| Joined FIBA | 1947 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIBA zone | FIBA Asia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National federation | Federation Libanaise de Basketball FLB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Joe Moujaes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | The Cedars | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Appearances | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Appearances | 8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals |
 Silver: 2001, 2005, 2007
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| Appearances | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Lebanon national basketball team is the basketball team of men representing Lebanon in international competitions. Lebanon has been considered as one of the top teams in the FIBA Asia sector after coming runners up on three occasions during the 2001 FIBA Asia Championship, the 2005 FIBA Asia Championship and the 2007 FIBA Asia Championship.
In 2013, Lebanon was banned by FIBA in all sanctioned events after political interventions in Lebanese basketball. Therefore, Lebanon didn't participate in the 2013 FIBA Asia Championship missing the chance to qualify to the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup for the fourth time in a row. The ban was then removed in early 2014 after the election of a new basketball federation.
The first time basketball was played in Lebanon was in the mid-1920s in the American University of Beirut. Gabi Arbaji was the first to prepare a basketball playground in Tabaris area, where the early college competitions were held.
In 1939, the first college championship was organized and the finals opposed the Makassed team to the AUB and ended with a major victory to Makassed with a score of (33–11). The Lebanese Basketball Federation was jointly founded later in 1949 along with the Lebanese Volleyball Federation. The Lebanese Basketball Federation is a member of the International, Asian, West Asian and Arab basketball organizations. The two federations broke up and the first independent Lebanese Basketball Federation was born in 1955. But the Lebanese Basketball Championship was already organized back in 1951. The Lebanese Basketball Championship was organized and the champions were crowned till 1975 when the dramatic war stopped everything. In this period before the war, Riyadi team had the biggest number of trophies. During the war, the basketball never stopped and there were always tournaments organized between the clubs of each section in the country and the players did not stop from doing their best hobby. After the war in 1993 the 1st championship was organized under the era of Tony Khoury who stood in the Federation for so many years and from that time the media started to had a bigger interest in this game until late 1996 when a new Federation was born with Antoin Chartier as a president, at that time the LBC interfered and sponsored the game so this date was the big launching of the Lebanese Basketball.
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