* Official Team USA Basketball Thread for 2019 FIBA World Cup *

[insidehoops]

Daily 2019 FIBA World Cup game scores, top players and more:

http://www.insidehoops.com/fiba-worl...sketball.shtml

The tournament began Saturday, August 31.

[Xiao Yao You]

If the United States finds itself matched against France in the latter stages of the FIBA World Cup in China, Donovan Mitchell will inevitably have to deal with the formidable obstacle of Rudy Gobert on one of his drives to the bucket. Gobert, as you can imagine, is eagerly awaiting this potential matchup within a matchup, and has some advice for Mitchell, his Utah Jazz teammate.

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Tony Jones: Hearing from multiple sources that De

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Chris Forsberg: Marcus Smart on the trainer

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Mike Finger: Media couldn

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Marc Stein: Boston

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John Schuhmann: Jerry Colangelo today cited Marvin Bagley & Derrick White as two guys that have stood out on the Select Team through 3 days of camp. Bagley scored quite a bit inside in the portion of scrimmaging that the media saw today.

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Sean Cunningham: Another standout day from Kings PG De

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Ric Bucher: Derrick White is being invited to LA when Team USA reconvenes there next week, a program official told me, which essentially means he has been promoted from the select practice squad to the World Cup roster. (Look for Marvin Bagley to be promoted as well.) One coach told me White was the best player on either team in the Day 2 scrimmages and on Day 3 I saw him damn near replicate that with my own eyes as the select squad played the World Cup squad to a draw in consecutive 10-minute scrimmages.

[DaHeezy]

You guys are lucky to have fielded high calibre NBA players. We have a bunch of Scrubbs. Literally

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Brian Windhorst: Trae Young has to leave Team USA camp because of a minor eye infection, sources said. He

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Marc Stein: As @USABasketball prepares for its fourth day of practice in Las Vegas, I

[DaHeezy]

I thought this thread was gonna be active. Then I realized it was me and Yao you. And he didn't even acknowledge me.

[Xiao Yao You]

The list of players who chose not to participate is much more accomplished and recognizable but Colangelo has his theories on what contributed to a summer filled with rejections.