Two more All Stars for Team USA at the 2023 Basketball World Cup

The United States team for the 2023 Basketball World Cup begins to take shape. After the first confirmations leaked by The Athleticnow is the ESPN who adds two more names to the preliminary list for the tournament, which will be held between August 25 and September 10 in the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia. The two players joining the roster of Team USA director Grant Hill and national team coach Steve Kerr are Brandon Ingram (New Orleans Pelicans) y Years Jackson Jr. (Memphis Grizzlies).

This extends the first known list with Anthony Edwards (Minnesota Timberwolves), Tyrese Haliburton (Indiana Pacers), Austin Reaves (Los Angeles Lakers) Mikal Bridges (Brooklyn Nets) y Bobby Portis (Milwaukee Bucks). In total there are seven names of the total of twelve that will be chosen, and it is possible to count on two great stars of the competition that have not transcended but have long been committed to the team.

Team USA for the 2023 World Cup

confirmed players

– Anthony Edwards (Minnesota Timberwolves)
​- Tyrese Haliburton (Indiana Pacers)
​- Austin Reaves (Los Angeles Lakers)
​- Mikal Bridges (Brooklyn Nets)
​- Bobby Portis (Milwaukee Bucks)
​- Brandon Ingram (New Orleans Pelicans)
– Years Jackson Jr. (Memphis Grizzlies)

Doing the numbers, there are only three vacancies left for Team USA for the next World Cup, which will be a team with the possibility of continuity for the Olympic Games of Paris 2024, although there is no explicit commitment between the technical managers and the players on this possibility of the future. Of the seven confirmed names, Edwards He is the one with the most poster as a future NBA star with the Wolves. It is expected that he will drop some big name in the coming days, since the squad must be formed before the end of June.

Ingram y Jackson Jr., the new confirmed names, have been All Star this course. The inside of the Grizzlies, a teammate of Santi Aldama, has also won the award for the best defender in the NBA this 2023. The Pelicans forward, number two in the 2016 Draft, has signed his best course in scoring and assists with averages of 24 7 points, 5.5 rebounds and 5.8 basket passes per game.

A player who wants to play in the World Cup is Joel EmbiidAlthough the Cameroonian center has not yet decided if he will do so with France or the United States. He has dual nationality and can choose. Team USA seeks redemption in the World Cup after falling in the quarterfinals in the last edition of 2019.

The United States team will begin training on August 3, before playing a friendly match against Puerto Rico on August 7 and then begin a world tour that will take them to play against Slovenia and Spain (August 13) in Malaga. Then they will embark for Abu Dhabi to play a triangular game with Greece and Germany a week before the start of the FIBA ​​World Cup, which for them will begin in Manila, the capital of the Philippines.

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