Inside Brazil's basketball team: A complete roster and more to know about 2024 Olympics team

Bill Bender

Inside Brazil's basketball team: A complete roster and more to know about 2024 Olympics team image

Brazil meets Team USA in the 2024 Olympic men’s basketball quarterfinals at 3 p.m. ET on Tuesday. 

Brazil has not won a medal in men’s basketball since the 1964 Olympics. This year’s team slipped into the medal round after finishing 1-2 in Pool B. This team will create a few interesting matchups for Team USA, especially if Bruno Caboclo stays hot. 

The forward had 33 points and 18 rebounds in a 102-84 victory against Japan on Aug. 2. 

Will Brazil challenge Team USA, which won its pool play games by an average of 21.3 points per game? A look inside Brazil’s men’s basketball team. 

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Who are Brazil's basketball coaches? 

Alexsandar Petrovic – a longtime Croatian basketball player and coach – is the coach for Team Brazil. He played on Yugoslavia’s bronze medal team in the 1984 Summer Olympics with Drazen Petrovic. Brazil’s assistant coaches are Helio Rubens Fiho, Bruno Savignani, and Tiago Splitter, who played seven NBA seasons through stints with San Antonio, Atlanta, and Philadelphia. 

Brazil men's basketball roster, 2024 Olympics 

Gui Santos spent the last two years with Golden State and averaged 3.6 points in 23 games last season. Maozinha Peireira played seven games for Memphis last season. 

Several other players have experience. 

Bruno Caboclo, who played eight seasons in the NBA and averaged 4.2 points per game, was a former first-round pick in 2014 by Toronto. 

Raul Neto played 12 NBA seasons between four teams. Cristiano Felicio played six seasons with the Chicago Bulls from 2015-21, and Didi Louzada played three seasons between New Orleans and Portland from 2020-22. 

Marcel Huertas — the team captain — played three years with the Lakers from 2015-17. 

A look at the 12-man roster: 

Brazil 2024 men's basketball roster                             

NO.POSNAMEHTTEAMLEAGUE
2PGYago Dos Santos5-10Crvena zvezdaABA (Serbia)
6CCristiano Felicio6-9GranadaLiga ACB
7SGDidi Louzada6-5FlamengoNBB (Brazil)
8SGVitor Benite6-4PalenciaLiga ACB
9PGMarcelinho Huertas6-3TenerifeLiga ACB
11SGGui Santos6-6Golden State WarriorsNBA
14SFLeo Meindl6-7Alvark TokyoJapan
23PGRaul Neto6-1FenerbahceEuroLeague
32GGeorginho de Paula6-6RatiopharmBundesliga
45FMaozinha Pereira6-6Memphis GrizzliesNBA
51PFBruno Caboclo6-9PartizanABA (Serbia)
99PFLucas Dias6-9FrancaNBB (Brazil)

How Brazil reached the Olympic quarterfinals 

France beat Brazil 78-66 on July 27 in a game where Caboclo was held to zero points. Germany beat Brazil 86-73 on July 30 in a game where Brazil hit 10-of-26 from three-point range. 

Brazil beat Japan 102-84 in its final game and edged out Greece by one point in point differential to advance to the quarterfinals. That was just enough to get a shot in the medal round. 

Brazil basketball history in the Olympics 

This is Brazil’s 16th Olympic appearance, and the team advanced to the medal round after not qualifying for the Summer Olympics in 2020. 

Brazil won the bronze medal in 1948, 1960, and 1964. The 1960 team lost to Team USA 90-63 as part of a round-robin medal round format. Brazil has finished fifth in the men’s basketball tournament five times since 1980. 

Team USA is 9-0 all-time against Brazil in the Olympics, with the last meeting in 1996.                                                                 

YEARRECORDPLACE
19361-39th
19487-1Bronze
19524-46th
19563-46th
19606-2Bronze
19646-3Bronze
19686-34th
19725-47th
19804-35th
19843-49th
19885-35th
19924-45th
19963-56th
20124-25th
20162-39th
20241-2-

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Bill Bender graduated from Ohio University in 2002 and started at The Sporting News as a fantasy football writer in 2007. He has covered the College Football Playoff, NBA Finals and World Series for SN. Bender enjoys story-telling, awesomely-bad 80s movies and coaching youth sports.