With the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup right on the horizon in August, Team USA is expanding the number of NBA players who will be involved in the process this year.
While we already know the 12 players who will represent Team USA in the international tournament, The Athletic’s Shams Charania reported on Thursday that a handful of young NBA players have been invited to the FIBA World Cup training camp in Las Vegas next month.
Charania reported that these young NBA players will join Team USA’s Select Team and travel with the main team next month.
“[The players] will be part of the U.S. Select Team,” he wrote, “and as a part of that, they will not only practice against the American 12 picked to represent the U.S. at the World Cup but are eligible to travel with the team to the Philippines and serve as replacements if anyone is injured before the start of the Cup. Team USA has not formally announced its Select Team, which will include as many as 12 players.”
Let’s take a look at the NBA players invited to training camp so far, with more likely to be reported in the coming days.
Update: ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski shared three new names on Friday, and Charania reported on another.