USA Basketball is serious business. We want medals and not just any medals...we want Gold medals. That’s why when USA Basketball wants to scrimmage prior to Olympics or major tournaments they turn to...who else...USA Basketball. That’s right, USA Basketball creates their own Select Team to scrimmage and practice against in order to get them ready for major competition. Well today USA Basketball announced who made that team and you’ll not only recognize Matt Painter as one of the assistant coaches you’ll also recognize a number of the players on the roster as recent college graduates. From the release:
Named to the 2023 USA Basketball Select Team are Cade Cunningham (Detroit Pistons), Jalen Duren (Detroit Pistons), Langston Galloway (Free Agent), Jalen Green (Houston Rockets), Quentin Grimes (New York Knicks), Chet Holmgren (Oklahoma City Thunder), John Jenkins (G League Ignite), Herb Jones (New Orleans Pelicans), Eric Mika (G League Ignite), Trey Murphy (New Orleans Pelicans), Keegan Murray (Sacramento Kings), Payton Pritchard (Boston Celtics), Naz Reid (Minnesota Timberwolves) and Jalen Williams (Oklahoma City Thunder).