Leonard and Blair are part of USA select team!!

Below is the full 13-man roster for the USA Select Team. This squad will scrimmage against a team comprised of finalists for the USA Olympics team in London. USA Basketball uses the Select Team as a feeder system in order to introduce players to the full scale of the Team USA program.


DeMarcus Cousins
Jeremy Lin
Klay Thompson
Kyrie Irving
John Wall
DeMar DeRozan
Paul George
Gordon Hayward
Kawhi Leonard
DeJuan Blair
Ryan Anderson
Taj Gibson
Derrick Favors


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Blair? WTF? :lol

Nice Kawhi :-)

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Blair? WTF? :lol

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I am happy, he won't spend the whole summer in Whataburger.

The scores for those scrimmages have to be like 956-86 or so

Wow. That should be GREAT experience for Kawhi and Blair.

Kawhi is a stud so it's not too surprising that he's included. But congrats to Blair. I know Spurs fans have irrational hate for him but he's a good dude.

I like Blair. The Spurs may not be a great fit for him anymore, but he's tough and actually plays ball well. He may find his spot on another team.

Wow, great honors for those two. :tu Good to see Kawhi getting recognition so early; should help his already blossoming confidence.

There's room on the US National Team for understated wings who known their roles, defend selflessly, and play hard and smart. Tayshaun Prince owns an Olympic gold medal and a gold medal from the World Championships for being that sort of guy. I'm not saying that Kawhi will end up being that guy in future versions of the US teams. But being in the pipeline gives him some chance of becoming that guy.

It's great for both of them.

Good for them.:)

How would Stern want to conquere chinease market since Jeremy Lin is american ?

Nice, this will be a great experience for them and a great representation of the Spurs.

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How would Stern want to conquere chinease market since Jeremy Lin is american ?

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Not sure I follow what you're saying.

:lolLin:lol

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Wow. That should be GREAT experience for Kawhi and Blair.

Kawhi is a stud so it's not too surprising that he's included. But congrats to Blair. I know Spurs fans have irrational hate for him but he's a good dude.

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Tbh the only people that hate him are the ones following him on twitter

LOL Blair...no Greg Monroe?

This team is going to get waxed.

Good for them. No downside in being involved. :tu

Blair for Monroe! :) Do it!

blair has a lot of value around the league
everyone i know thinks hes a beast
ive visited other forums and have seen people pissed their team didnt draft blair
i remember reading phoenix, sac, and indiana forums irate they didnt draft blair
there was a thread on the indiana forum not to long ago about hansborough vs blair
and most said they wished they drafted blair instead

id rather have tyler
length, physical, solid mid range jumper

Kawhi :)

Wow. Happy for them both. I hope they will use this opportunity to show the world who the fucking young guns of SA really are.

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I am happy, he won't spend the whole summer in Whataburger.

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Don't bears over indulge BEFORE the hibernation?

Lmao Blair can barely make the spurs team!

i like blair too, hope this net him some value time. great learning curve for kawhi

good to have more players to play against to tryout for any sort of team

but this aint good if you have players colluding to play together when in FA...aka cheat trio

Kawhi and Blair are on NBATV right now, scrimmage between Olympic and Select team

My woman says True Blood > NBATV : (

frickin cowhigh, he's getting fantastic experience and initiation.

How are they playing, can anyone report what he saw?

Looks like they're gonna show a replay at 7pm cst (NBATV)

Pumped, I definitely wanna see this, the Select team is obviously no real competition for the big boys, but they have a lot of talent on that team.

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Looks like they're gonna show a replay at 7pm cst (NBATV)

Pumped, I definitely wanna see this, the Select team is obviously no real competition for the big boys, but they have a lot of talent on that team.

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Kyrie alone makes the Select Team very good, IMHO...

Though if you ask me Kawhi's gonna be the best wing from the 2010+ draft classes. That kid's work ethic is crazy.

Kawhi being Kawhi

http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net...Jr-LIANO7JzE8_

Half of those guys look photoshopped.

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Kawhi being Kawhi

http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net...Jr-LIANO7JzE8_

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Lebron actually doesn't look like he's 40 years old in this photo.

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Wow. That should be GREAT experience for Kawhi and Blair.

Kawhi is a stud so it's not too surprising that he's included. But congrats to Blair. I know Spurs fans have irrational hate for him but he's a good dude.

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Amen

Why so many fans want to trash Blair is beyond me. The Spurs may have gone to the Finals had Blair got more minutes in the WCF.

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Amen

Why so many fans want to trash Blair is beyond me. The Spurs may have gone to the Finals had Blair got more minutes in the WCF.

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GM from Philly asked if there was any interest in home state player Blair, which he replied the way most GMs see Blair.

Tom Moore: Asked if #Sixers have no interest in DeJuan Blair. "You are correct," replied team president Rod Thorn. Twitter