We’ve been talking a lot about European tournaments in the last week, mostly with Mystics forward Emma Meesseman leading the Belgium women’s national basketball team in EuroBasket Women 2017 Qualifiers.
She’s not the only basketball player in Washington playing for European supremacy.
The Wizards have three European nationals of their own with Marcin Gortat coming from Poland, Ian Mahinmi coming from France, and Tomas Satoransky coming from the Czech Republic. All three of their national teams qualified for EuroBasket 2017 in qualifiers or finishing high enough in the 2015 tournament.
Though Gortat announced earlier that he retired from playing for the Polish national team and Mahinmi hasn’t played for France since 2010, Satoransky has been a mainstay for the Czechs over the last several years along with former Wizards player Jan Vesely.