Amen Thompson won't turn 22 until midway through the Houston Rockets' 2024-25 season. But Thompson might have felt like something of a veteran Monday as he led the Team USA select squad in a scrimmage in Las Vegas.
Thompson—as well as Houston teammate Jabari Smith Jr.—spent recent days in Las Vegas, working with the select squad in a slate of scrimmages and practices against the Team USA roster slated to represent the United States in the Paris Olympics later this month. Neither Thompson nor Smith were the youngest player on the roster.