It’s most basketball players’ dreams to represent their country at the Olympics. That spirit of willingness to play for the flag is deeply ingrained in Detroit Pistons high-flying forward Blake Griffin, who said that seeing action in the quadrennial games is something that he has always longed for, per James L. Edwards III of The Athletic.

Training camp in preparation for the 2019 USA World Cup in China and 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will be July 25-27 in Las Vegas. And Griffin has every intention of participating.

“It’s something I’ve always wanted to do,” Griffin told The Athletic. “I mean, the Olympics, in general, is something I’ve always wanted to do at least once.”

Griffin has not been part of an Olympic team before, but he has a chance to don the country’s colors in 2020, when the Olympics makes its way back to Tokyo. Griffin had a chance to play in the summer games in London back in 2012, but was forced to quit from Team USA after suffering a knee injury during an NBA game while still with the L.A. Clippers.

Fortunately, for Blake Griffin, Gregg Popovich seems to like him enough to include the Pistons forward in the 35-man pool of the United States’ men’s national basketball squad.

The decision to bring Griffin back was a no-brainer for Gregg Popovich, the San Antonio Spurs head coach who has taken over for Mike Krzyzewski as the coach of USA Basketball. As the years have passed, Popovich sees the five-time NBA All-Star as “a good example of someone who has gotten better and better” and “a competitor of the highest order.”

Griffin was traded to Detroit earlier this year by the Clippers along with Brice Johnson and Willie Reed for Tobias Harris, Avery Bradley, Boban Marjanovic, and a pair of draft picks.