The 2010 FIBA World Championship final was a basketball game between the men's national teams of Turkey and the United States that took place on September 12, 2010, at Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul, Turkey, to determine the winner of the 2010 FIBA World Championship.

[2] Both teams qualified to the tournament automatically, the United States by winning the gold medal at the Olympics in Beijing, and Turkey as hosts.

[3] The game was close for the first half — Turkey even led at one point during the first quarter — but the American athleticism was too much for the Turks, and the U.S. was able to pull away on easy baskets.

Lamar Odom came up big when it mattered most, scoring all fifteen of his points in the second half, and grabbing eleven rebounds overall.

Hedo Türkoğlu was Turkey's leading scorer with 16 points, despite suffering a knee injury during the first half.