Lauri Markkanen (Photo by Norbert Barczyk/Press Focus/MB Media/Getty Images)
The Finland National Team has Chicago Bulls power forward Lauri Markkanen present on their preliminary 25-man roster for 2022 EuroBasket Qualifiers.
The international hoops world was interrupted this year (as was essentially every single sport and professional sports league around the globe in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic), with the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, getting pushed back to next summer. That will bring the Summer Olympics just one summer away from when the EuroBasket Qualifiers will take place in 2022. And one key Chicago Bulls power forward, 23-year-old Lauri Markkanen, that looks like he could be participating for his home country in the qualifiers.