Andre Drummond’s chances of making the U.S. Men’s National Basketball team for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio are getting better by the week. Although Steph Curry made the headlines for dropping out of consideration this week, it was LaMarcus Aldridge’s dropout that caught my eye.
Aldridge joins the likes of Anthony Davis and Blake Griffin as big men who will no longer be considered for a spot on the Olympic team. This means that Dwight Howard, DeAndre Jordan, DeMarcus Cousins and Drummond are the only true big men still in contention.
Cousins will have the upper hand on him if we are going off of their playing time during the 2014 FIBA World Cup (Cousins played 13.