Tournament details | |
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Arena | Glyfada Athens, Greece |
Dates | July 26–28 |
Final positions | |
Champions | Lithuania (1st title) |
Runners-up | Greece |
Third place | Italy |
Fourth place | Brazil |
Awards and statistics | |
MVP | Nikos Chatzivrettas |
The 18. Edition of the Acropolis International Basketball Tournament 2004 found between the 26. and 28. July 2004 in Athens. There at the Olympic Hall given the upcoming 2004 Summer Olympics after modernization work was carried out, the six games took place in the Glyfada sports hall in the south of Athens.
In addition to the host Greek national team also excluded the national teams Brazil and Lithuania part. The field of participants was completed by the eventual Olympic silver medalist Italy.
In addition to the Greeks, the stars of the 2004 Acropolis tournament included Dimitrios Diamantidis and Theodoros Papaloukas the Italian Denis Marconato, Leandro Barbosa from Brazil as well Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Arvydas Macijauskas, Ramūnas Šiškauskas and Darius Songaila from Lithuania.
As MVP the Greek became the tournament Nikolaos Chatzivrettas excellent.[1]