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Monday, August 2, 2010
Wright gets another invite from USA Basketball
Dayton’s Chris Wright will get another crack at facing Kevin Durant and other members of the U.S. national team, having been one of 10 college players invited back to practice against the NBA stars in New York City on Aug. 9-13.
The rest of the USA Basketball select team, which will be coached by Villanova’s Jay Wright, includes Kyle Singler and Nolan Smith (Duke), JaJuan Johnson (Purdue), Jon Leuer (Wisconsin), Shelvin Mack (Butler), Chris Singleton (Florida State), Howard Thompkins (Georgia), Mike Tisdale (Illinois) and Kemba Walker (Connecticut).
“One of the great developments of our Las Vegas camp was the USA select team which consisted of juniors and seniors out of the college ranks that we brought in to scrimmage against the USA National Team,” USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo said in a statement. “It worked so well we’ve decided to bring a smaller group of players from that select team to New York to do the same thing. They were very valuable to us and it’s a great experience for them,”
Wright is 32nd in career scoring at UD with 1,127 points and was named to the All-Atlantic 10 first team as a junior last season. The Flyers have averaged 25 wins per season since Wright’s freshman year.
The roster for the U.S. national team, which will compete in the FIBA World Championships in Turkey on Aug. 12-Sept. 28, has been trimmed to 15. The group includes Durant, Russell Westbrook and Jeff Green (Oklahoma City); Chauncey Billups (Denver); Tyson Chandler (Dallas); Stephen Curry (Golden State); Rudy Gay (Memphis); Eric Gordon (Los Angeles Clippers); Danny Granger (Indiana); Andre Iguodala (Philadelphia); Brook Lopez (New Jersey); Kevin Love (Minnesota); Lamar Odom (Los Angeles Lakers); Rajon Rondo (Boston); and Derrick Rose (Chicago).
The team, which is coached by Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, will need to be cut down to 12 for the championships.
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