Twenty-Eight Players Take Part In 2013 USA Basketball Men’s National Team Mini-Camp
2012 Olympic gold medalist, and also featuring the last three NBA Draft No. 1 selections, 28 players participated in the 2013 USA Basketball Men’s National Team mini-camp that was held July 22-25 in Las Vegas, Nev.
H Participating in the 2013 USA
Basketball Men’s National Team mini-camp were: Ryan Anderson (New Orleans Pelicans); Harrison Barnes (Golden State Warriors); Bradley Beal (Washington Wizards); Mike Conley (Memphis Grizzlies); DeMarcus Cousins (Sacramento Kings); Anthony Davis (New Orleans Pelicans); DeMar DeRozan (Toronto Raptors); Andre Drummond (Detroit Pistons); Kenneth Faried (Denver Nuggets); Derrick Favors (Utah Jazz); Paul George (Indiana Pacers); Gordon Hayward (Utah Jazz); Jrue Holiday (Philadelphia 76ers); Kyrie Irving (Cleveland Cavaliers); DeAndre Jordan (Los Angeles Clippers); Michael Kidd- Gilchrist (Charlotte Bobcats); Ty Lawson (Denver Nuggets); Damian Lillard (Portland Trail Blazers); Doug McDermott (Creighton University); Greg Monroe (Detroit Pistons); Chandler Parsons (Houston Rockets); Larry Sanders (Milwaukee Bucks); Marcus Smart (Oklahoma State University); Klay Thompson (Golden State Warriors); Dion Waiters (Cleveland Cavaliers); Kemba Walker (Charlotte Bobcats); John Wall (Washington Wizards); and Tyler Zeller (Cleveland Cavaliers).
USA Basketball National
Team head coach Mike Krzyzewski directed the players through the mini-camp, and assisting him were USA assistant coaches Jim Boeheim, head mentor at Syracuse University; Tom Thibodeau, Chicago Bulls head coach; and New Orleans Pelicans head coach Monty Williams.
“The group of players we assembled for the mini-camp were extremely talent-
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some of the players involved in this mini-camp will be members of upcoming USA national teams.” The players conducted daily training
sessions in Las Vegas July 22-24, then closed out the mini-camp with the 2013 USA Basketball Showcase, a blue-white intra-squad game on July 25 at the Thomas & Mack Arena on the campus of UNLV.
ighlighted by 20 players owning prior USA Basketball experience, including one
ed and very versatile,” said USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo. “This is an important opportunity for each one of them because we will be evaluating which players will continue to be involved in future USA National
“This is an exciting group of versa-
tile and very talented players,” said Krzyzewski, the USA head mentor who has led U.S. teams to gold at back-to- back Olympics. “This group has a really good blend of experience, both with USA Basketball and in the NBA. The mini-camp will feature a lot of younger play- ers who are emerging in the NBA and it will give us our first opportunity to see them at this elite level.”
Six-foot, 10-
inch Davis head- ed the list of 20 players with USA Basketball expe- rience having
Team training camps and teams. “Kevin Durant, Derrick Rose,
Russell Westbrook, Kevin Love, Rudy Gay, Eric Gordon, Danny Granger, and Andre Iguodala were all guys who played in our 2009 mini-camp and went on to play for the 2010 USA World Championship and 2012 U.S. Olympic teams that won gold. I’m sure it will not be much different this time around and
averaged 3.7 points and 2.7 rebounds a game as the youngest member of the gold medal 2012 U.S. Olympic Team.
Nine players – Cousins, DeRozan,
Favors, George, Gibson, Hayward, Holiday, Irving and Thompson, were all members of the 2012 USA Basketball Select Team that trained against the U.S. Olympic Team in Las Vegas.
“The guys were terrific all week. I think we made a good first good step in this four-year period,” USA Basketball Men’s National Team head coach Mike Krzyzewski
Players possessing USA Basketball team experience as high school seniors as members of the USA Basketball Junior National Select Team that competed in the annual Nike Hoop Summit were Barnes (2010), Beal (2011), Cousins (2009), Davis (2011), DeRozan (2008), Drummond (2010), Holiday (2008), Irving (2010), Kidd- Gilchrist (2011), Monroe (2008)
and Wall (2010). Walker and Zeller participated as
collegians on the 2010 USA Select Team that trained against the gold medalist 2010 USA World Championship Team.
Selected to play on other USA
Basketball teams were Beal (2010 U17 World Championship, 2009 U16 Championship); Conley (2005 USA
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