Nike Hoop Summit Announces World Roster, Broadcast Information
The injured Joel Embiid (Cameroon), left, puts up a playful defense for Kansas teammate Andrew Wiggins (Canada), as the team loosens up, Wednesday, March 12, 2014, at the Sprint Center in Kansas City. Embiid is slated to sit out the Big 12 Tournament, in hopes that a back injury will heal up in time for the NCAA tournament. (AP Photo/The Kansas City Star, Rich Sugg)
Yesterday the Nike Hoop Summit released the roster for the World Team that will face Team USA in this April’s game.
Last year the World team, led by Andrew Wiggins which also featured his Kansas teammate and likely top-5 pick Joel Embiid, soundly defeated the Team USA by 14 points.
They announced on Tuesday that the game will be broadcast on ESPN2 at 4 PM PDT from the Moda Center in Portland on April 12.
Here are the rosters for both teams below. The schools are a reflection of where each player has signed a letter of intent, if they have signed one. As you can see below, only four of the World Team’s 10 players has signed a letter of intent to play in college.
Should Adam Silver’s proposed age limit actually pass, the soonest we would see most of these players would be after the 2016 draft.
NO. NAME HIGH SCHOOL / *COLLEGE HOMETOWN Cliff Alexander Curie Metropolitan H.S./*Kansas Chicago, IL Joel Berry II Lake Highland Prep School/*North Carolina Apopka, FL James Blackmon, Jr. Marian H.S./*Indiana Fort Wayne, IN Stanley Johnson Mater Dei H.S./*Arizona Fullerton, CA Tyus Jones Apple Valley H.S./*Duke Apple Valley, MN Jahlil Okafor Whitney Young H.S./*Duke Chicago, IL Kelly Oubre Findlay Prep (NV)/*Kansas Fort Bend, TX Theo Pinson Wesleyan Christian Academy/*North Carolina Greensboro, NC Reid Travis DeLaSalle H.S./*Stanford Minneapolis, MN Myles Turner Trinity H.S./Undecided Bedford, TX Justise Winslow St. John’s School/*Duke Houston, TX World Team
POS TEAM COUNTRY James Metecan Birsen Fenerbache Ülker Turkey Clint Capela ES Chalon-sur-Saone Switzerland Brandone Francis Arlington Country Day School, Fla./*Florida Dominican Republic Damien Inglis Chorale de Roanne Basket France Nikoa Jokic KK Mega Vizura Serbia Trey Lyles Arsenal Technical H.S., Ind./*Kentucky Canada Emmanuel Mudiay Prime Prep Academy, Texas/*Southern Methodist Democratic Republic of Congo Jamal Murray Athlete Institute Canada Gao Shang Guangdong Southern Tigers China Karl Towns, Jr. St. Joseph H.S., N.J./*Kentucky Dominican Republic
Three players from last year’s World Team–Russia’s Sergey Karasev (Cleveland), Germany’s Dennis Schröeder (Atlanta) and France’s Livio Jean-Charles (San Antonio)–were selected in the first round of last year’s draft.
In past years the event has proven to be a place where players, particularly internationals–such as Bismack Biyombo’s triple-double in 2011 or Schröeder last season–can see their draft stock skyrocket.
Erik Gundersen
Erik Gundersen is the Trail Blazers beat reporter for The Columbian. He's a graduate of the Allen School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon in addition earning a degree in Spanish. He's covered the NBA for four seasons. You can also occasionally find his work on ESPN.com's NBA section for their TrueCities series. He also fist-bumped with Kanye West once. Follow @BlazerBanter on twitter for more Blazers and NBA news.