TVE to show Spain’s Basketball World Cup warm-up games

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has acquired rights for the Spain national basketball team’s warm-up games ahead of the 2014 Fiba Basketball World Cup in the country.

Under the deal with the Spanish basketball federation, TVE will show a series of the men’s team games in August, starting with Spain v Canada on August 6 and finishing with Spain v Argentina on August 25.

TVE will also show the warm-up games against Angola, Turkey, Senegal and Croatia before the start of the men’s tournament on August 30.

The rights will be exploited on sports channel Teledeporte.