On September 4th, 16 teams from 16 countries will face off in Berlin, Germany across  36 total games to determine a FIBA World Cup Champion. While Portland and the WNBA’s home country, the USA, is heavily favored to win, the Fire have players spread out exclusively amongst four other teams (including two on the runner-up betting favorites).

That’s a lot of games across a lot of days for the real sickos who want to watch everything a Fire player ever does (🙋). That’s why I’m going to list out every Fire player, list out each of their teams’ schedules, locate how to stream every single game, and create a Google Calendar so we don’t miss a thing.

Let’s get into it.

The FIBA World Cup will have a Group stage (4 groups of 4 teams) followed by an elimination/bracket stage. The four winners of the four groups will have automatic bids in the quarterfinals of the tournament, while the #2 and #3 finishers in each pool will enter a mini-bracket to face-off against the #1 finishers. Yes, that means the last place finishers in each pool are eliminated from the tournament.

Portland has players for France (Carla Leite), Spain (Meg Dileo, Iyana Martín), Germany (Freida Bühner, Luisa Geiselsöder), and Nigeria (Amy Okonkwo). France has the second-best odds to win the tournament, Spain is 5th, Germany is 7th, and Nigeria is 8th. Hopefully they all make the final bracket of eight!

Here are the groups, and the favorites to win each one:

The broadcast rights to the tournament are owned by TNT Sports. No, that doesn’t mean that every game will be broadcast on air on the TNT channel (streaming rights have never been stupider, and will not be getting more sensible any time soon). Luckily, all games will be available on HBO Max.

Here are the games that will be aired over cable, on TNT as well as TruTV:

On TNT:

Friday, Sept. 4: United States vs. China — 8:15 a.m. ET

Sunday, Sept. 6: Italy vs. United States — 2:45 p.m. ET

Monday, Sept. 7: United States vs. Czech Republic — 2:45 p.m. ET

truTV schedule for group stage:

Friday, Sept. 4: Spain vs. Germany — 11:45 a.m. ET

Friday, Sept. 4: Hungary vs. France — 3 p.m. ET

Sunday, Sept. 6: Puerto Rico vs. Belgium — 11:45 a.m. ET

Monday, Sept. 7: Nigeria vs. France — 8:30 a.m. ET

Monday, Sept. 7: Japan vs. Spain — 11:50 a.m. ET

In addition to HBO Max, all games in the quarterfinals and semifinals will air on TNT or truTV, while the championship will air on TNT.

So, if you have access to cable channels and TNT/truTV, you will likely be fine just staying with those. But if you want it all, and if you want it all in one place, you’ll need to get HBO Max. You can get a month of HBO Max with ads for $10.99 (30.53 cents/game), or for $18.49 without ads (51.3 cents/game). I think those are great rates for the quantity, and especially the quality, of these FIBA games.

Here is the notable group-stage schedule:

USA vs China, 5:15AM PST (also on TNT)

Nigeria vs Korea, 5:30AM PST

Spain vs Germany, 8:45AM PST (also on truTV)

France vs Hungary, 12:00PM PST (also on truTV)

Spain vs Mali, 2:30AM PST

Nigeria vs Hungary, 5:15AM PST

Germany vs Japan, 9:00AM PST

France vs Korea, 11:45AM PST

USA  vs Italy, 11:45AM PST (also on TNT)

Nigeria vs France, 5:30AM PST

Spain vs Japan, 8:50AM PST

Germany vs Mali, 8:50AM PST

USA vs Czechia, 11:45AM PST (also on TNT)

And, unfortunately, I can’t forecast beyond the group stages. However, I will update the Google Calendar as soon as matchups and game times are announced. You can also come back to this post you are reading now on rosecoloredbuckets.email where I will update them, as well.

But set your alarms: the finals will take place on Sunday, September 13th at 11:00AM PST.

Here are a couple of rules/game changes you’ll see in this FIBA tournament:

Megan DiLeo has a special mission at the FIBA World Cup