As the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup nears, young Houston Rockets guard Jalen Green is among several top American prospects playing for Team USA’s Select Team at a Las Vegas training camp.
Comprised of rising young talents such as Green, Detroit’s Cade Cunningham and Jalen Duren, and Oklahoma City’s Chet Holmgren, the Select Team’s purpose is to provide practice and scrimmage competition for the national team while also providing potential roster insurance in the event of any late withdrawal due to injury.
So far, several of those talented Select Team prospects appear to be turning heads — as evidenced by a convincing win over their older counterparts during Friday’s first day of scrimmage activity.
While official statistics haven’t been released, Green appears to be more than holding his own. “Green was effective against Team USA,” The Athletic’s Joe Vardon wrote after seeing Friday’s scrimmage.
From video clips and media reports, here’s a compilation of what we know to date regarding Green’s encouraging play in Las Vegas. Now 21 years old, Green led the Rockets in scoring at 22.1 points per game in 2022-23, which was his second NBA season. The athletic 6-foot-6 guard was drafted No. 2 overall in the 2021 first round.