San Antonio Spurs guard and Team Australia member Patty Mills is focused on the 2019 FIBA World Cup, saying is country has “unfinished business.”
Per Roy Ward in The Sydney Morning Herald:
“It comes from history and understanding we have never won a medal, the belief in one another and the talent we have in this gym right now and the potential for what we can do,” Mills said.
“Now it is all about putting it together, having fun and having a good hard crack at it.
“We have some unfinished business from the Rio Olympics, two years coming up right now is the big picture and we have some time to get on the same page.”
Mills, 30, will enter his 11th season in the NBA in the fall and ninth with the Spurs, but the professional league isn't the only hoops on his mind due to his strong allegiance to Australia and the nation's quest to medal at the FIBA World Cup, the second-largest showcase for international basketball, only diminished by the Summer Olympics.
Australia will be without native son Ben Simmons, the 6-foot-10 Philadelphia 76ers point-forward and former first-overall pick, who signed an extension with his club in the offseason but said he's focused on the next season with the Sixers and intends to participate in Team Australia's 2020 Summer Olympics bid in Tokyo, Japan.
Mills is joined by other NBA veterans in Utah Jazz wing Joe Ingles, Phoenix Suns big man Aron Baynes, former Golden State Warriors center Andrew Bogut, and others in the collective journey to finally earn a medal at the large, worldwide stage.
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