1999 Tournament of the Americas
The 1999 Tournament of the Americas, later known as the FIBA Americas Championship and the FIBA AmeriCup, was a basketball championship hosted by Puerto Rico, from July 14 to July 25, 1999. The games were played in San Juan, at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum. This FIBA AmeriCup was to earn the two berths allocated to the Americas for the 2000 Olympics, in Sydney, Australia. The United States won the tournament, the country's fourth AmeriCup championship.
Qualification
Eight teams qualified during the qualification tournaments held in their respective zones in 1999; two teams qualified automatically since they are the only members of the North America zone.- North America:,
- Caribbean and Central America:,,,
- South America:,,,
Group A
Group B
Format
- The top four teams from each group advance to the quarterfinals.
- Results and standings among teams within the same group are carried over.
- The top four teams at the quarterfinals advance to the semifinals.
- The winners in the knockout semifinals advance to the Final and were granted berths in the 2000 Summer Olympics tournament in Sydney. The losers figure in a third-place playoff.
Squads
Preliminary round
Group A
Group B
Quarterfinal group
The top four teams in both Group A and Group B advanced to the quarterfinal group. Then each team played the four from the other group once to complete a full round robin. Records from the preliminary groups carried over.Knockout stage
Awards
| Most Valuable Player |
 Steve Nash |
Final standings
| Rank | Team | Record |
| 10–0 | ||
| 7–3 | ||
| 7–3 | ||
| 4 | 6–4 | |
| 5 | 4–4 | |
| 6 | 3–5 | |
| 7 | 2–6 | |
| 8 | 1–7 | |
| 9 | 0–4 | |
| 10 | 0–4 |
| Tim Duncan Allan Houston Steve Smith Vin Baker Kevin Garnett Jason Kidd Gary Payton Tim Hardaway Tom Gugliotta Elton Brand Richard Hamilton Wally Szczerbiak | Richard Elias Anderson Rowan Barrett Peter Guarasci Andrew Mavis Jordie McTavish Michael Meeks Shawn Swords Keith Vassell Steve Nash Greg Newton Todd MacCulloch Sherman Hamilton | Alejandro Montecchia Lucas Victoriano Leandro Palladino Sergio Aispurua Facundo Sucatzky Andrés Nocioni Hugo Sconochini Juan Espil Manu Ginóbili Gabriel Fernández Luis Scola Leonardo Gutiérrez |