Italian coach Marco Ramondino and Slovenian Rado Trifunovic have been nominated to lead Iran national basketball team.

Arsalan Kazemi, "Persian Prince" of basketball, is the first basketball player from Iran to play in NCAA Division I and the first player from country to be drafted in the NBA. He won Asia Cup medals, Asia Challenge medals, Asian Games medals, and Asia Champions Cups over the years as a key piece of Team Melli. Kazemi was even voted by the fans ...