China ended the world basketball championships campaign in Turkey after losing 78-67 to the undefeated Lithuanian team here on Tuesday.
Turkey overwhelmed its traditional rival Greece 76-65 here Tuesday, scoring their third straight win at basketball worlds.
A weakened German team, missing their talismanic NBA forward Dirk Nowitzki, produced the shock of the world championship on Sunday with an 82-81 win over Serbia after two overtime periods.
World championship favourites the United States stormed into the quarter-finals on Monday with a 121-66 rout of Angola and were joined by Russia, who were also on song in their 78-56 win over New Zealand.
Yi Jianlian fought for every rebound and point in the paint, even though he was suffering from a sore Achilles' tendon.
Despite few big names and little size and experience, the United States is still tipped to win the FIBA World Basketball Championship in Turkey.
Serbian center Nenad Krstic of the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder has been suspended for three games and fined 45,000 Swiss francs ($43,950) over last week's mass brawl at a basketball tournament in Greece.
Brazil's legendary basketball icon Oscar Schmidt received a huge honor on Friday as the athlete was named to the 2010 FIBA list of athletes to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
