Langston Galloway, John Jenkins and Eric Mika helped USA Basketball qualify for this summer season’s FIBA World Cup, they usually’re getting a reward for these efforts.
They are amongst 14 gamers introduced Monday as members of the USA Basketball Men’s Select Team, which can collect in Las Vegas subsequent week to coach alongside the U.S. World Cup staff because it prepares for the event that begins in Manila on August 25.
Also picked for the Select Team: Oklahoma City’s Chet Holmgren and Jalen Williams, Detroit teammates Cade Cunningham and Jalen Duren, Houston’s Jalen Green, New York’s Quentin Grimes, New Orleans’ Herb Jones and Trey Murphy, Sacramento’s Keegan Murray, Boston’s Payton Pritchard and Minnesota’s Naz Reid.
The staff might be coached by Orlando’s Jamahl Mosley, assisted by Indiana’s Jim Boylen and Purdue’s Matt Painter.
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“We are confident that our USA Men’s Select Team will do a great job helping prepare the men’s national team for the 2023 Men’s FIBA World Cup,” stated Grant Hill, USA Basketball Men’s National Team managing director. “We have a good mix of young NBA players and those who helped us qualify for the World Cup, all of whom will play a huge role in our success in Manila, as we continue to develop the national team pipeline for years to come.”
Galloway performed in 5 of the six World Cup qualifying home windows over the previous two years for the United States. Jenkins and Mika every performed in two of these home windows, during which the Americans would put collectively primarily a brand new staff each time composed largely of G League gamers.
Jenkins and Reid have been each members of the USA Men’s Select Team in 2021 that skilled with the staff that USA Basketball despatched to the Tokyo Olympics.
