EuroBasket 2011 - Day 1 Results

We may not have an NBA season, but that doesn't mean the NBA's stars aren't in action. The European Championships kicked off today with 9 games and a number of NBA players taking the floor for their home countries. Among the winners, Dirk Nowitzki's Germany team, Pau Gasol and Spain, Tony Parker and France, and Andrei Kirilenko and Russia.

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Here are the results from Day 1:

Spain 83 Poland 78
Lithuania 80 United Kingdom 69
Turkey 79 Portugal 56
Serbia 80 Italy 68
Germany 91 Israel 64
France 89 Latvia 78
Greece 76 Bosnia 67
Montenegro 70 FYR Macedonia 65 (OT)
Croatia 84 Finland 79
Slovenia 67 Bulgaria 59
Georgia 81 Belgium 59
Russia 73 Ukraine 64

Top Scorers:

Pau Gasol - Spain - 29 points
Luol Deng - Great Britain - 25 points
Dirk Nowitzki - Germany - 25 points
Tony Parker - France - 31 points
Janis Blums - Latvia - 32 points
Bojan Bogdanovic - Croatia - 27 points