The politics of the FIBA central board are very different from the politics of the United Nations Security Council, which is why Russia was excluded from the world championship as well as South Korea.

• FIBA理事会的政策和联合国安全理事会的政策有很大的不同，这就是俄罗斯和韩国被拒绝参加世界锦标赛的原因。