American Basketball finds itself in the planning stages of the creation of a pre-Olympic bureau in Las Vegas for the United States, Australia and Spain team to train and play exhibition halls before leaving Tokyo, said the Director General Jerry Colangelo An ESPN.
Given that it is hoped that the NBA players will constitute the core of the three teams and that the playoffs of the League will be scheduled from May 22 to July 22, this concept will create an entourage in which the players can limit the trips and the possible exhibition at COVID-19 beforehand in Japan. The United States team is planning to open the training camp on the week of July 4, as the NBA playoffs continue.
“In the papel have much meaning”, says Colangelo. “We want to be flexible”.
Spain, real World Cup Champion, has five current NBA players who played in the national team in passing: Marc Gasol, Ricky Rubio, Serge Ibaka, Juancho Hernangomez and Willy Hernangomez. The Australians are numbered on the Olympic list this week, and have 10 current NBA players, including Ben Simmons, Patty Mills, Joe Ingles, Dante Exum and Matisse Thybulle.
Also in the name of flexibility, Colangelo said that USA Basketball has applied for Olympic Committee of the United States, el International Olympic Committee y FIBA, which directs the Olympic ballooning tournament, which changes the rules sober should present the lists for the Games. In general, the lists should be established with varying weeks of anticipation, but with the NBA playoffs three days earlier than the EE team. UU. is programmed for its first Olympic game, Colangelo is changing hands.
The EE team. UU. has requested to allow changes in the list included during the Olympic Games, and that the players can fly late and unite with the teams, said Colangelo. It is hoped to receive comments from the rector’s bodies on the matter.
“These are not normal times. The lists for a fixed date have no meaning”, says Colangelo. “What we look for is flexibility to support players and ensure that the best players enter the game. Not only apply to us, but to all countries”.
On Wednesday, the COI published its first set of parameters of the Games, deciding that athletes should not be vaccinated or suspended in their care, while tendrians who sometimes try to travel and go to Japan.