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The 2012 Select Team has an excellent collection of talents. The group has outstanding speed and versatility, some excellent shooters, and some very good size ... It will be great to have them involved in USA Basketball and in the National Team pipeline for our next quadrennium, 2013-16.
I'm one who is willing to give someone a second chance ... I would like to think he'd like to put this season behind him. His Dallas episode hurt his image. If he comes in and shows he can be a contributor, and his attitude is good and he wants to be here, why not? As far as USA Basketball is concerned, he's in the pool, and we'll see how it plays out.
Being named as a finalist for the USA Basketball team is an unbelievable feeling and an opportunity that is truly humbling. It is an honor to be included with such talented players and I look forward to the chance to represent my country this summer.More quotes »
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US men's team drawn into tougher Olympic pool
going, Americans should have expected a tough road back to Olympic men's basketball gold."It's been that kind of a year," USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo said.The U.S., reeling from major injuries to NBA stars Dwight Howard and Derrick Rose , was placed Read more »
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Team USA basketball injuries piling up
USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo pared down the U.S. men's basketball field to 20 players in January, he probably didn't envision needing reinforcements to fill out a 12-man final roster. But with Dwight Howard's season-ending back injury presumably Read more »
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Martin Named Court Coach for USA Basketball U18 Training Camp
State C.C. (Tenn.) and John Thompson from N.C. Wesleyan have been selected to serve as court coaches for the 2012 USA Basketball Men's U18 National Team training camp to be held June 5-7 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center (USOTC) in Colorado Springs, Colo. 4:25 PM from University of South Carolina Official Athletic Site Read more »
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Former Davenport basketball coach who left abruptly resurfaces
in 2008 and 2010. According to a press release, Youngs last year was selected as one of the two court coaches for the 2011 USA Basketball Women’s U19 World Championship and World University Games team trials. Youngs graduated from Hope College and Belding 4:03 PM from MLive.com Read more »
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Eric Bossi: Washington lands Nigel Williams-Goss; more news
plans to attend both the NBPA Top 100 Camp and the Nike Elite 100; Anton Beard, a four-star point guard who will try out for USA Basketball's U17 national team; C.J. Anderson, a combo guard who is being courted by LSU, Ole Miss, VCU, Arizona State and UMass, 4:01 PM from Sports Illustrated Read more »
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Jerry Colangelo mum on older NBA players in Olympics beyond 2012
both for the NBA and for the game.” Colangelo, though, remains noncommittal on the topic. He has worked hard to rebuild USA Basketball in the wake of the 2004 Olympics, in which a poorly behaved American team wound up with a bronze medal. It’s hard to believe 1:27 PM from Oregon Live Read more »
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are all in through the London Olympics," Silver explained. "And then post-London Olympics, we want to step back, together with USA Basketball, and FIBA, and I think together with the Competition Committee, we need to take a long-term view of what makes sense 10:34 AM from Josh Ellis Dallas Cowboys Blog Read more »
