Cleveland Cavaliers guard Darius Garland has just been announced as one of 17 players named to the 2021 USA Basketball Select Team that will train with the USA Basketball Men’s National Team during its Las Vegas training camp from July 6-9. Garland previously took part on the USA Junior National Select Team that participated in the Nike Hoop Summit in 2018.
Garland finished the 2020-21 regular season with career highs in points (17.4), rebounds (2.4), assists (6.1, 18th-best in NBA), steals (1.22), minutes (33.1), field goal percentage (.451) and three-point percentage (.395). The second-year guard received three votes for the NBA’s Most Improved Player Award and was one of only four players in the NBA who averaged at least 17.