After more than 20 years of unalterable presence in the elite, the Argentine basketball team He was left without a World Cup, which begins this Friday, August 25, and without a chance of entering the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. The latter is a consequence of the defeat against the Bahamas last Sunday, when the guard-forward Eric Gordon lit up with 27 points and three bombings at the end to give the only ticket to the Olympic Repechage to the Bahamians. Precisely, the figure of the Phoenix Suns player was a point of debate on which he expressed himself Andrés Nocioni.
Gordon was the figure of the Bahamas to leave Argentina without the Olympic Games: 27 points with six triples
Always very active in the networks, the Chap He accompanied the Prequalifier of the Americas held in Santiago del Estero as one more fan. After the painful defeat, the champion in Athens 2004 highlighted Gordon’s class, a player with a high level and a 15-year career in the NBA. However, he also pointed out something very controversial about the Bahamian player: “Now cold, I think: is it fair what the Bahamas did to nationalize a player who had already competed for the United States at the last moment (even winning a World Cup)?” , raised.
Of a Bahamian mother but born in Indianapolis, Gordon had a chapter in the United States National Team. As well pointed out notion, the former Houston Rockets and many others, was world champion with his native country in the 2010 World Cup in Turkey, in which he averaged 8.6 points. This surprised many, since changing teams is normal in clubs, but not in national teams: “This signing at will is called a club league, not a national team competition. And it should be corrected,” demanded the Chapu.
Eric Gordon won the 2010 World Cup with the United States.
“Let’s not lose the essence of international competitions,” he warned in second instance. As controversial as it may be, this has become a normal practice between national teams in recent times. It is not necessary to mention the case of the American point guard Lorenzo Brown in the European champion Spain in 2022: without going any further, China would have paid a million dollars to Kyle Anderson, a player of the Memphis Grizzilies, to play the World Cup in this year.
In fact, the American adopted the name Li-Kaier to be able to play in the Eastern team. As reported by the federation of that country, Anderson was eligible for the national team by his great-grandfather, but he had to renounce his US citizenship since the Chinese government does not recognize dual passports.
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Kyle Anderson, now better known as Li-Kaier in China.
Just as it happened with Anderson in China, this practice is repeated in various countries in Europe, such as Greece, Slovenia and Spain, and in the Middle East, such as Jordan. Uruguay had done it long ago. Regardless of the validity of your complaint, notion and all fans of Argentine basketball know that the present of the Selectionremoved from the main competition, is not a consequence of Eric Gordon’s triples or his belated love for the Bahamas.
2023-08-22 20:32:55
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