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US Basketball just announced the 35 Player roster for this year’s FIBA Basketball World Cup Americas Qualifiers, the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Here are the 35 players and their respective NBA team;
- Harrison Barnes – Dallas Mavericks
- Bradley Beal – Washington Wizards
- Devin Booker – Phoenix Suns
- Jimmy Butler – Minnesota Timberwolves
- Mike Conley Jr. – Memphis Grizzlies
- DeMarcus Cousins – New Orleans Pelicans
- Stephen Curry – Golden State Warriors
- Anthony Davis – New Orleans Pelicans
- DeMar DeRozan – Toronto Raptors
- Andre Drummond – Detroit Pistons
- Kevin Durant – Golden State Warriors
- Paul George – Oklahoma City Thunder
- Eric Gordon – Houston Rockets
- Draymond Green – Golden State Warriors
- Blake Griffin – Detroit Pistons
- James Harden – Houston Rockets
- Tobias Harris – Los Angeles Clippers
- Gordon Hayward – Boston Celtics
- Kyrie Irving – Boston Celtics
- LeBron James – Cleveland Cavaliers
- DeAndre Jordan – Los Angeles Clippers
- Kawhi Leonard – San Antonio Spurs
- Damian Lillard – Portland Trail Blazers
- Kevin Love – Cleveland Cavaliers
- Kyle Lowry – Toronto Raptors
- CJ McCollum – Portland Trail Blazers
- Khris Middleton – Milwaukee Bucks
- Victor Oladipo – Indiana Pacers
- Chris Paul – Houston Rockets
- Isaiah Thomas – Los Angeles Lakers
- Klay Thompson – Golden State Warriors
- Myles Turner – Indiana Pacers
- Kemba Walker – Charlotte Hornets
- John Wall – Washington Wizards
- Russell Westbrook – Oklahoma City Thunder
The 2017-20 USA Basketball National Team coaching staff features USA head coach and San Antonio Spurs mentor Gregg Popovich.
Not to scare the competition but here’s some trivia about the 35-man team pool of the US Basketball;
- The 35 players represent 20 NBA teams, with NBA champion Golden State Warriors featuring four players (Curry, Durant, Green and Thompson), while the Houston Rockets (Gordon, Harden and Paul) boast of a trio of players, and nine teams feature two players, including – Boston Celtics (Hayward and Irving), Cleveland Cavaliers (James and Love), Detroit Pistons (Drummond and Griffin), Indiana Pacers (Oladipo and Turner), Los Angeles Clippers (Harris and Jordan), New Orleans Pelicans (Cousins and Davis), Oklahoma City Thunder (George and Westbrook), Portland Trail Blazers (Lillard and McCollum) and Washington Wizards (Beal and Wall).
- Eleven players were members of the 2016 U.S. Olympic gold medal team (Barnes, Butler, Cousins, DeRozan, Durant, George, Green, Irving, Jordan, Lowry and Thompson); seven were gold medalists on the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team (Davis, Durant, Harden, James, Love, Paul and Westbrook); two were members of the 2008 U.S. Olympic gold medalist team (James and Paul); and one was part of the 2004 U.S. Olympic bronze medalist team (James).
- Eight national team players were part of the gold medalist 2014 USA World Cup Team (Cousins, Curry, Davis, DeRozan, Drummond, Harden, Irving and Thompson) and five players were members of the 2010 USA World Championship team that won the title (Curry, Durant, Gordon, Love and Westbrook).
- The roster includes the last two FIBA World Cup MVPs – 2014 MVP Irving and 2010 MVP Durant.
- The 2018 NBA All-Star game featured 17 USA National Team players, including starters Curry, Davis, DeRozan, Durant, Harden, Irving, James and Westbrook; and reserves Beal, Drummond, George, Green, Lillard, Lowry, Oladipo, Thompson and Walker. Four additional players — Butler, Cousins, Love and Wall — also originally were selected to play in the ’18 All-Star game but were unable to participate due to injury.
- Four members of the national team pool have won eight of the last nine NBA regular season MVP awards – Westbrook (2017), Curry (2015 and 2016), Durant (2014) and James (2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013).
- Durant (2017), James (2012, 2013 and 2016) and Leonard (2014) have won five of the last six NBA Finals MVP awards.
- Six USA National player have earned nine NBA All-Star MVP honors, including Davis (2017), Westbrook (2015 and 2016), Irving (2014), Paul (2013), Durant (2012) and James (2006, 2008 and 2018).
- NBA Defensive Player of the Year awards have been presented to two USA National Team members – Green (2017) and Leonard (2015 and 2016).
- McCollum (2015-16), Butler (2014-15), George (2012-13) and Love (2010-11) have collected NBA Most Improved award honors.
Introducing the 2018-20 USA Basketball Men's National Team pool:
1⃣7⃣ Olympic gold medalists
3⃣0⃣ returning members of the USA Men's National Team pool
3⃣5⃣ athletes in all🔗 » https://t.co/ElOmTQbGyF pic.twitter.com/3gekcb6f5a
— USA Basketball (@usabasketball) April 6, 2018
Gilas fends off pesky Japanese in their first win for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 Asian Qualifiers
If not for their great start, the result of the game could have gone the other way.
Most of the heavy lifting were done by Jayson Castro who filed the stat sheet with 20 points on 7-of-13 shooting, 7 rebounds, 6 assists, and 1 steal in just 29 minutes, and Andray Blatche who finished with 13 points, where 6 of those points are from the three-point line, 12 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals and 3 shot blocks.
Gilas next assignment will be the visiting Chinese Taipei on Monday at the Smart-Araneta Coliseum at 7:00 in the evening.
The scores:
PHILIPPINES 77 – Castro William 20, Blatche 13, Wright 12, Norwood 10, Fajardo 6, Aguilar 5, Abueva 5, Pogoy 5, Ravena 1, Alas 0, Rosario 0
JAPAN 71 – Hiejima 20, Brown 10, Tanaka 10, Togashi 8, Baba 7, Harimoto 7, Shinoyama 4, J. Takeuchi 3, Ota 2, Furukawa 0, Uto 0
Per quarter scores: 1st: 18-10, 2nd:37-28, 3rd: 59-55, 4th: 77-71