Basketball: Sport giants in doubt

Brett Brown, head coach of the Australian Boomers. Photo / Getty Images

Australian basketball coach Brett Brown may be forced to change his team's style for the world championship in Turkey after losing two of his premier big men and possibly a third.

A 15-man squad checked into a Gold Coast camp yesterday minus 2.13m Milwaukee Bucks star Andrew Bogut and 2.08m Nathan Jawai, who is still in the US awaiting the birth of his first child.

Brown is also sweating on the availability of 2.10m Aleks Maric.