Durant the face of Team USA
August 3, 2009 by James Edwards
Filed under Kevin Durant, Kevin Garnett, NBA Basketball, Olympics
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Now somewhere down the line your intrepid author must have missed something. Let’s see, what could it have been? Oh, that is right, shouldn’t your Team USA basketball team be loaded with Superstars? Now who would those be? Perhaps you could start with LeBron James and Kobe Bryant and from there move on to Kevin Garnett, Dwyane Wade, and Dwight Howard. Yeah, that would be an excellent way to begin the roster of future Olympians.
Is this someone coming out of the stands to join Team USA or Kevin Durant?
So here is the roster and those names don’t seem to be on it.
Now we do have a collection of future potential maybe if all things work out and things go the right way possible stars, maybe even a superstar or two of the future, but what happened to those other guys?
Well, at least, Kevin Durant is listed on the roster and appears to be taking over the team.
“Jerry (Colangelo) had the idea to do this, and we all felt it would be good, but I think it was great,” said Mike Krzyzewski, who was named Tuesday head coach of the USA Men’s National Team program for 2009-2012. “Jerry just got through talking to them, and I said a few words and you could feel the sense of pride from all the guys. We had four really good days here, all these guys have built up USA equity, let’s put it that way.”
Durant, who shot a 9-of-9 from the free throw line, also recorded eight rebounds and four assists, while Brook Lopez (New Jersey Nets / Stanford) added 18 points on a 7-of-8 shooting performance from the field, and Kyle Korver (Utah Jazz / Creighton), Thaddeus Young (Philadelphia 76ers / Georgia Tech) and Anthony Randolph (Golden State Warriors / LSU) also helped USA Blue with 12 points each.
Now you did notice those stars in the making like Thaddeus Young and Kyle Korver, didn’t you? What about Brook Lopez? Still doesn’t get you going? Me neither. Maybe the roster will change before the Olympics, who knows.
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