Panama national basketball team

The Panama national basketball team are the basketball side that represent Panama in international competitions.

= Olympic Games record =

* 1968: 12th

FIBA World Championship record

* 1970 FIBA World Championship: 9th
* 1986 FIBA World Championship: 19th
* 2006 FIBA World Championship: 23th

Current squad

Of the extant squad, three players—Ed Cota, Jamaal Levy, and Jaime Lloreda —played collegiate basketball in the United States, each for a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I university, respectively for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wake Forest University, and Louisiana State University.

Head coach

*Guillermo Vecchio

Guards

*Jair Peralta
*Ruben Douglas
*Maximiliano Gomez
*Michael Hicks
*Eduardo Cota

Forwards

*Ruben Garces
*Kevin Daley
*Jamaal Levy
*Antonio Enrique Garcia Murillo
*Jose Jaime Lloreda Ferron

=Center=

*Eric Cardenas

Rosters

1968 Olympic Games: finished 12th among 16 teams

Davis Peralta, Norris Webb, Luis Sinclair, Pedro Rivas, Eliecer Ellis, Calixto Malcom, Nicolas Noe Alvarado, Ernesto Arturo Agard, Francisco Checa, Julio Osorio, Percibal Eduardo Blades, Ramon Reyes (Coach: Eugenio Luzcando)

1970 World Championship: finished 9th among 13 teams

Davis Peralta, Luis Sinclair, Pedro Rivas, Ernesto Arturo Agard, Julio Osorio, Percibal Eduardo Blades, Julio Andrade, Herbert Cousins, Ronald Walton, Cecilio Straker, Mario Peart, Hector Montalvo (Coach: Carl Pirelli Minetti)

1982 World Championship: finished 9th among 13 teams

Ernesto "Tito" Malcolm, Rolando Frazer, Mario Butler, Rodolfo Gill, Fernando Pinillo, Reggie Grenald, Braulio Rivas, Arturo Brown, Mario Galvez, Adolfo Medrick, Eddie Joe Chavez, Alfonso Smith (Coach: Jim Baron)

1986 World Championship: finished 19th among 24 teams

Ernesto "Tito" Malcolm, Mario Butler, Rolando Frazer, Reggie Grenald, Rodolfo Gill, Fernando Pinillo, Braulio Rivas, Adolfo Medrick, Cirilo Escalona, Mario Galvez, Enrique Grenald, Daniel Macias (Coach: Frank Holness)

2006 World Championship: finished 23rd among 24 teams

Eduardo "Ed" Cota, Ruben Garces, Jose Jaime Lloreda, Ruben Douglas, Michael Hicks, Maximiliano "Max" Gomez, Eric Omar Cardenas, Kevin Alex Daley, Antonio Enrique Garcia, Jair Peralta, Jamaal Levy, Dionisio Gomez (Coach: Guillermo Edgardo Vecchio)