Olympics men’s basketball live stream: Watch Brazil vs Croatia online
Olympics Men’s Basketball: Brazil vs Croatia
Without question, the favorite sport or event of many fans who tune into the Olympic Games is the Olympics men’s basketball competition. Not only do you get to see NBA players compete against one another with the additions of fantastic international players, but there is also high drama. That’s undoubtedly the case for the 2016 Rio Olympics men’s basketball competition as the action has been fast and fantastic. Now Group B will be in action on Thursday, August 11 on Day 6, starting off with Brazil vs Croatia.
Coming into this tournament, there wasn’t a great deal of buzz about the host nation in Brazil. Sure, they returned stalwarts of their roster like Marcelo Huertas, Nene, and Leandro Barbosa. However many of their players appeared too old to really compete. However Brazil proved that might night be the case when they opened up their play in the Olympics men’s basketball competition by playing Lithuania close. They confirmed that they’re here to say in their second matchup as they took on Spain and beat them by one point.
Meanwhile, Croatia has all of the looks of a team on the rise in international hoops. Philadelphia 76ers great hope Dario Saric has been quite impressive at Rio 2016. Meanwhile, Mario Hezonja and Bojan Bogdanovic have shown impressive things as well. They proved all of this with a win over Spain to open up their Olympics men’s basketball competition. However, they faltered in their second game of the event with an eight-point loss to Argentina. Now they’ll need to find their earlier form in this tough matchup with Brazil.
Details for Thursday’s Brazil vs Croatia matchup are below:
Date: Thursday, August 11
Start Time: 1:15 p.m. ET
Location: Rio de Janiero, Brazil
Arena: Carioca Arena 1
TV Info: USA Network, Olympics Basketball Channel
Live Stream: NBCOlympics.com
This game will be broadcast on TV live on both USA Network and the Olympics Basketball Channel. You can also live stream all of the action on NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app. Fans can access both services simply by logging in using a cable or satellite subscription.