The United States are beginning to plot their plans for another gold medal run in men’s basketball in the Olympics with the quadrennial event set to take place in Tokyo two years from now. To that end, USA Basketball is employing a take-no-prisoners attitude in trying to achieve the goal of defending the country’s Olympic basketball’s title. In other words, only the best American players are considered to be part of the team.
And when it comes to the best, few would contest that Golden State Warriors shooting guard Klay Thompson is one of them.
According to Mark Medina, Thompson, who is included on the 35-man roster for the 2018-20 USA’s men’s national team, is intending to take part in USA Basketball’s minicamp in Las Vegas late this month.
As of this moment, Klay Thompson is planning to attend USA Basketball's minicamp at UNLV on July 26 and July 27.
— Mark Medina (@MarkG_Medina) July 17, 2018
Klay Thompson was part of that Team USA unit that took home the gold medal in men’s basketball in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. In eight games, Thompson averaged 9.9 points, 2.5 rebounds, and 1.6 assists. He knocked down 16 of his 49 attempts from downtown in the tournament. His best performance came during a group match against France in which he went off for 30 points on 9-for-16 shooting with seven 3-pointers.
In the gold medal match against Serbia, Thompson tallied 12 points with a pair of triples.
Here’s the complete list of players making up the USA Basketball’s 35-man pool, per TeamUSA.org.
The 35 players represent 20 NBA teams, with NBA champion Golden State Warriors featuring four players (Curry, Durant, Green and Thompson), while the Houston Rockets (Gordon, Harden and Paul) boast of a trio of players, and nine teams feature two players, including – Boston Celtics (Hayward and Irving), Cleveland Cavaliers (James and Love), Detroit Pistons (Drummond and Griffin), Indiana Pacers (Oladipo and Turner), Los Angeles Clippers (Harris and Jordan), New Orleans Pelicans (Cousins and Davis), Oklahoma City Thunder (George and Westbrook), Portland Trail Blazers (Lillard and McCollum) and Washington Wizards (Beal and Wall).
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