Here's a closer look at each of the four groups in the FIBA World Championship, which gets under way Saturday in four Japanese cities:
GROUP A
Powerhouse team(s): Serbia and Montenegro and Argentina. Technically, the former won the 2002 world title (Yugoslavia, which fell apart in the 1990s because of wars, used only players from these regions of the former republic), while the latter captured Olympic gold two years later.
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