FIFTEEN athletes have been selected to join the 2024 USA Basketball Men’s Select Team who will train with the USA Basketball Men’s National Team in preparation for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
The USA Select Team is comprised of 12 current NBA or NBA G League players, two players with NBA, NBA G League, international and USA Basketball experience, and one freshman with USA Basketball experience. The USA Men’s Select Team members will practice daily from July 6-8 in Las Vegas.
Anggota Tim Select USA 2024 adalah Jalen Duren (Detroit Pistons), Cooper Flagg (Duke University), Langston Galloway (Free Agent), Nigel Hayes-Davis (Fenerbahçe, Turki), Trayce Jackson-Davis (Golden State Warriors), Jaime Jaquez Jr. (Miami Heat), Brandon Miller (Charlotte Hornets), Trey Murphy (New Orleans Pelicans), Keegan Murray (Sacramento Kings), Brandin Podziemski (Golden State Warriors), Micah Potter (Utah Jazz/Salt Lake City Stars), Payton Pritchard (Boston Celtics), Jabari Smith Jr. (Houston Rockets), Jalen Suggs (Orlando Magic), dan Amen Thompson (Houston Rockets).
“As a former member of the USA Select Team, I know how important and exciting this opportunity is for each of the players,” said Grant Hill, Managing Director of the USA Basketball Men’s National Team.
“There is a wealth of talent on this Select team with the important task of helping the 2024 USA Basketball Men’s National Team begin their journey to the Olympics. Each of these athletes will play a role in our preparation while developing the national team pipeline for the future.”
The roster includes 2024 NBA champion Payton Pritchard, 10 former first-round NBA draft picks, seven players selected to the NBA All-Rookie First or Second Team, and Suggs, who was selected to the 2024 NBA All-Defensive Team.
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Ten members of the 2024 USA Men’s Select Team have previous USA Basketball experience at the junior and senior levels, including five returning players from the 2023 USA Select Team (Duren, Galloway, Murphy, Murray, Pritchard).
Galloway helped the U.S. qualify for the 2022 FIBA World Cup by participating in multiple World Cup qualifying windows. Duren and Pritchard have medaled as members of USA Basketball’s junior national teams at multiple FIBA World Cup and Americas competitions.
Suggs’ USA experience dates back to 2017 and includes gold medals at the 2019 FIBA U19 World Cup, 2018 FIBA U17 World Cup and 2017 FIBA U16 Americas Championship. Jackson-Davis returns to USA Basketball for the first time since 2018 when he won a gold medal at the FIBA U18 Americas Championship, while Jaquez participated in several mini camps and training camps in 2016 and 2017.
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Flagg, who will be the first college student to participate in the U.S. senior national team program since Doug McDermott and Marcus Smart in 2013, was named to the All-Star Five at the 2022 FIBA U17 World Cup and recently won the 2024 Nike Hoop Summit as a member of Team USA.
Hayes-Davis, Miller, Podziemski and Potter will participate with USA Basketball for the first time.
For the second straight year, Orlando Magic head coach Jamahl Mosley will serve as the head coach of Team Select USA and will be assisted by assistant coaches Jim Boylen (Indiana Pacers) and Matt Painter (Purdue University).
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“I am really looking forward to returning to Las Vegas and working with Team Select USA once once more,” said Mosley.
“In my three years with USA Basketball, I have gained a wealth of knowledge regarding international basketball while having the opportunity to work with some of the best players and coaches in our game.”
Mosley served as an assistant coach on the 2021 USA Select Team, and Boylen served as head coach for the 2023 USA Men’s World Cup Qualifying Team that went 9-3 through six windows of competition from 2021-23. Painter, who heads the USA Junior National Team Committee, was the on-court coach during the recent USA Basketball U18 Men’s National Team training camp in Colorado Springs.
Since the development of the USA Basketball Men’s National Team program in 2006, USA Basketball has selected and deployed eight teams (2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2019, 2021, 2023) to help the US national team prepare for major international competition.
Six members of the 2024 USA Basketball Men’s National Team have been members of previous select teams, including Devin Booker (2016), Kevin Durant (2008), Anthony Edwards (2021), Tyrese Haliburton (2021), Jrue Holiday (2012), and Kawhi Leonard (2012).
In total, 30 select team members have joined U.S. national teams that have competed in the Olympics or FIBA World Cup. That includes the aforementioned Harrison Barnes (2016, 2019), Shane Battier (2006), Mikal Bridges (2023), Jalen Brunson (2023), Demarcus Cousins (2014, 2016), DeMar DeRozan (2014, 2016), Paul George (2016), Jerami Grant (2020), Draymond Green (2016, 2020), Joe Harris (2019), Andre Iguodala (2010, 2012), Brandon Ingram (2023), Kyrie Irving (2014, 2016), Jaren Jackson Jr. (2014, 2016), (2023), Zach LaVine (2020), Kevin Love (2010, 2012, 2020), Mason Plumlee (2014, 2019), Derrick Rose (2010, 2014), Marcus Smart (2019), Klay Thompson (2014, 2016), Myles Turner (2019), Kemba Walker (2019), Russell Westbrook (2010, 2012), and Derrick White (2019). (USAB/Z-3)
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