FIBA World Cup 2019: Spain, Argentina set to play for gold medal

Argentina, looking to win its first FIBA World Cup since the inaugural edition in 1950, and Spain, led by Marc Gasol, who’s hoping to add World Cup gold to a 2019 NBA title, will face off Sunday in Beijing in the final of the international basketball tournament.

Spain advanced to the title game with a pulsing 95-88 double-overtime victory over Australia, erasing a double-digit deficit in regulation to hand the stunned Boomers their first loss of the tournament.

“That was a hell of a game of basketball,” Australia coach Andrej Lemanis said succinctly.

Gasol, who won an NBA title with the Raptors in June, has a chance become only the second person to add a World Cup title to an NBA championship in the same year.

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