TEG Live’s statement echoed Sims’ comments. “We acknowledge some fans were disappointed that the USA Men’s Basketball team that competed in Australia in August did not include some of the NBA’s biggest stars,” it read. “Based on the information provided to TEG Live by USA Basketball, we had expected these stars to play.”
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“He wanted to in the worst way,” said …
“He wanted to in the worst way,” said Colangelo, who was the managing director of USA Basketball Men’s Senior National Team program at the time. “I put him on by saying, ‘Look, we may want you to do something else rather than score. We may need you to be the distributor’ and he kind of looked at me funny and we smiled and he said, ‘I’ll do whatever you want. I just want to be part of it.’” This was coming off the 2004 U.S. Olympic team winning just a bronze medal.
“We go to training camp in Vegas and …
“We go to training camp in Vegas and he’s there two days early and is in the workout room at 5:30 in the morning working on his weights,” Colangelo recalls. “If you practice twice a day, that was his first workout before the two regular workouts. As players like Carmelo and LeBron, Wade and (Chris) Bosh and others, they saw that and they started going in that early. So he led by example.” Case in point. “The first day of scrimmage, he’s diving on the floor for a loose ball,” Colangelo said. Bryant scored 20 points in the 118-107 gold medal victory over Spain in Beijing, hitting clutch shots in the fourth quarter. “Had it not been for Wade and in particular, Kobe’s late-game heroics, we may not have won,” Colangelo said. “Spain played that well against us.”
The Tokyo Olympics are officially …
The Tokyo Olympics are officially postponed until 2021, but Team USA’s leadership is recommitting itself to stay in the job. USA Basketball managing director Jerry Colangelo and head coach Gregg Popovich remain committed to the team into 2021, Colangelo said Tuesday. Both men’s futures in their roles had been uncertain after this summer.
“The commitments everyone made for 2020 …
“The commitments everyone made for 2020 are still there; we’re all-in and we’re committed,” Colangelo said. “It’s important to deal with the unknowns and this virus. This too shall pass and we’ll be back for everyone’s well-being.”
IOC member tells USA TODAY that 2020 Olympics will be postponed
Dick Pound told USA TODAY Sports columnist Christine Brennan that the Olympic games in Tokyo will not go on as planned.
With a global pandemic being everyone in the world’s primary concern, the sports world continues to be on hold. The NBA is now on Day 12 since they last played, back on March 11 and sports across the world, even the Turkish Basketball League, are postponed indefinitely. And it’s now only a mere formality that the 2020 Olympics, scheduled for this July in Tokyo, will join the rest of the sports world.
IOC member Dick Pound told USA TODAY’s Christine Brennan on Monday afternoon that the 2020 Olympics will be postponed, with the details of the postponement to be ironed out in the next four weeks. The Australian Olympic Committee has told their athletes, some of whom play in the NBA, to train for the summer of 2021.
With the Olympics going on the postponement, especially if it will be a year until they go on, could make it much easier for the NBA to salvage the 2019-20 season. Without summer commitments to national teams in an Olympic year, players will have much more time to potentially salvage the season, even if they play games without fans.
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FIBA Olympic Tournaments draw postponed
FIBA media: Following the latest developments with the COVID-19 pandemic, the Draw for the @Tokyo2020 Men’s & Women’s Olympic Basketball Tournaments, which was set to take place at the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball in Mies, 
on March 20, is postponed to a date yet to be confirmed.
on March 20, is postponed to a date yet to be confirmed.Marc J. Spears: The USA Basketball …
Marc J. Spears: The USA Basketball Board of Directors announced that in response to the COVID-19 pandemic it has suspended all USA Basketball scheduled events until further notice and that it was cancelling the 2020 Nike Hoop Summit that was scheduled for April 10 in Portland.
Chris Mannix: USA Basketball Managing …
Chris Mannix: USA Basketball Managing Director Jerry Colangelo tells @SInow that USA Basketball operations are proceeding normally. No withdrawals by players concerned about #coronavirus — yet — and there has been no communication about postponing or canceling the Games.
Chris Mannix: Colangelo, like most, is …
Chris Mannix: Colangelo, like most, is anxious to see how everything plays out. But he tells @SInow that it’s “all systems go” at USAB, with plans in place to have a team selected in early June.