When Jodie Meeks takes the stage for Team USA on Friday — the first-ever time he’ll be representing his country — it will be the last time he calls himself a professional basketball player. Once Meeks’s run with Team USA at the 2022 FIBA AmeriCup is over, he’ll be hanging up the sneakers.
“I’m young, but in basketball, I’m a little older,” Meeks told Steve Drumwright of USAB earlier this week. “I’m no spring chicken anymore. But that’s OK. I can still move, I still feel like I can still play. And obviously I’m out here doing well.