KAYSERI, Turkey (AP) — The brawl between Greece and Serbia in a warmup game has left two of the top teams at the basketball world championship reeling from suspensions that have ruled out some of their best players for the start of the tournament.
Serbia will be without center Nenad Krstic for the first three games and guard Milos Teodosic for the first two. Power forward Antonis Fotsis and center Sofoklis Schortsanitis will miss Greece’s first two games for their role in the Aug. 19 brawl.
The tournaments that starts on Saturday in four Turkish cities already is already missing a number of top stars for various reasons, including Kobe Bryant and all the Olympic champion U.S. team, Pau Gasol of Spain and Dirk Nowitzki of Germany.
