By Craig Kwasniewski
Team USA opens training camp in Las Vegas today in preparation for the World Championships held late in August. As I wrote back in March (Team USA: Viva Las Vegas), I think holding training camp in Vegas is brilliant! What better way to entice NBA Ballers on summer break than to hold camp in their own paradise. Strippers, comped services, gambling and hoops... does it get any better than this?
Anyway, Team USA will be practicing in Vegas from July 19th to August 3rd closing out with the State Farm USA Basketball Challenge (USA vs. Puerto Rico) at the Thomas & Mack Center (roadtrip?).
I'm banking that USA Basketball will fill my NBA needs for the summer. There's a few storylines worth following during the whole experience:
-How will D-Wade and LeBron do with international refs? Unless there's Latino version of Dick Bavetta they won't be shooting 46 freethrows a game like in the playoffs.
-How is Amare Stoudemire coming along in his knee rehab?
-Which posse member will get shot in Vegas?
-Will the players respect head coach Mike Krzyzewski?
-Will J.J. Redick get a single shot off without getting swatted in practice? Oh wait, his missing some of the camp because he's "injured" (ie. sucks).
Anyway, here's the 2006 USA Basketball Men's Senior National Team Training Schedule.
morrison will be like christian laettner in the dream team '72.
i think he should just concentrate on practicing with his nba team.
all the talk abt. him learning from his stint w/ the squad is b.s.
look at laettner's pro career.
Posted by: coach | July 19, 2006 at 04:02 PM
Wow, Gil is wearing a non-zero number.
Posted by: Sean | July 19, 2006 at 04:15 PM
Arenas wearing 21... I'll bet that has something to do with Blackjack.
Along the same lines there's a J.J. Redick and soft-16 joke in there somewhere.
Posted by: Craig | July 19, 2006 at 05:02 PM
morrison pro career will be alright .
as to jj reddick , it's ken lay .
they both shd. quit the squad
Posted by: NIKE | July 19, 2006 at 05:28 PM
yo Morrison just looks out of place, exactly how he will look on defense in the fall or when his shooting percentages are horrible at the end of the year
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