[JesRey]

The 20 finalists who will try to make the 12-man roster for the 2012 Olympics have been named on the USA Basketball website.


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Eight 2008 Olympic gold medalists, 10 members of the 2010 USA World Championship gold medal winning team, one national team player and one newcomer to the USA Basketball National Team were among the 20 finalists named today for the 2012 U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team by USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo. The official 12-man U.S. Olympic team roster will be announced later this year.

“Jerry has built an extremely deep and talented USA National Team roster of 35 players and I want to thank each player for their incredible commitment to being part of USA Basketball. Reducing to 20 players was unbelievably difficult,” stated Krzyzewski, who has coached USA National Teams to a sterling 48-1 record since 2006.

The USA’s complete training schedule will be released at a later date.

2012 London Olympic Games

The 2012 Summer Olympic Games will be held July 27-Aug. 12 in London, England. Twelve teams will compete in the 2012 Olympic men’s basketball competition. Nations currently qualified for the Olympic competition include Great Britain, the host country; the United States, which earned its berth by virtue of claiming the gold medal at the 2010 FIBA World Championship; Africa zone champ Tunisia; Americas zone champion Argentina and runner-up Brazil; Asia zone winner China; European zone gold medalist Spain and silver medalist France; and Oceania zone champion Australia.

Seven of the twenty players are representing Los Angeles including Kobe Bryant, Chauncey Billups, Blake Griffin, Chris Paul, Tyson Chandler, Kevin Love, and Russell Westbrook.

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[ucffans]

I hope Carmelo, Kobe, and Chauncey let the young fellas represent the USA. Their time to do this has past.

[JesRey]

Originally Posted by ucffans

I hope Carmelo, Kobe, and Chauncey let the young fellas represent the USA. Their time to do this has past.

Carmelo is still young

[whalechaser]

I would like to see this 12 man Team USA Roster:

Starting line-up:

Chris Paul
Wade
Durant
Lebron
Dwight Howard

Bench:

Rose
Kobe
Aldridge
Kevin Love
Griffin
Rudy Gay
Carmelo Anthony

[ucffans]

Originally Posted by JesRey

Carmelo is still young

Basketball age is like dog years. He may be young, but he has played a lot of games. Shawn Kemp was young when he turned into a big balloon at age 27.

[wheeler281]

Originally Posted by JesRey

Carmelo is still young

for sure.

Who goes ahead of him. Rudy Gay injured and not half the player melo is. Blake can only dunk. Odom pleeease. Love no doubt will be on the team with Melo

Melo is not ballooning that is for sure . There are only a couple guys that are younger that can be considered and Love is the only one that deserves it