Jason Jones: Harrison Barnes on Marvin Bagley III, who withdrew from Team USA to prep for the Kings’ season: “Marvin was killing. He was doing his thing. He got promoted, but unfortunatley he wasn’t able to continue, but I thought he was on his way to having a nice impact on this team.”
Marvin Bagley Rumors
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Position: F
Born: 03/14/99
Height: 6-11 / 2.11
Weight:234 lbs. / 106.1 kg.
Salary: $8,567,040
Born: 03/14/99
Height: 6-11 / 2.11
Weight:234 lbs. / 106.1 kg.
Salary: $8,567,040
Jason Anderson: I’m catching up after a weekend away but I can confirm Kings forward Marvin Bagley III has withdrawn from Team USA training camp. Harrison Barnes and De’Aaron Fox are expected to be with the team in Los Angeles this week.
Following four days of training and Friday night’s USA Blue-USA White intrasquad exhibition game in Las Vegas, USA Basketball announced 17 finalists for the 2019 USA Basketball Men’s World Cup Team. The 17 include 13 athletes from the USA National Team roster and four players from the USA Select Team. Finalists include 2016 Olympic gold medalist Harrison Barnes (Sacramento Kings); Marvin Bagley III (Sacramento Kings); Jaylen Brown (Boston Celtics); De’Aaron Fox (Sacramento Kings); Joe Harris (Brooklyn Nets); Kyle Kuzma (Los Angeles Lakers); Brook Lopez (Milwaukee Bucks); Kyle Lowry (Toronto Raptors); Khris Middleton (Milwaukee Bucks); Donovan Mitchell (Utah Jazz); 2014 World Cup gold medalist Mason Plumlee (Denver Nuggets); Marcus Smart (Boston Celtics); Jayson Tatum (Boston Celtics); P.J. Tucker (Houston Rockets); Myles Turner (Indiana Pacers); Kemba Walker (Boston Celtics); and Derrick White (San Antonio Spurs).
Marc Stein: As @USABasketball prepares for its fourth day of practice in Las Vegas, I’m told Sacramento’s Marvin Bagley and San Antonio’s Derrick White have emerged as the strongest of contenders to be included in the roughly 15-man contingent expected to proceed to Los Angeles next week
Ric Bucher: Derrick White is being invited to LA when Team USA reconvenes there next week, a program official told me, which essentially means he has been promoted from the select practice squad to the World Cup roster. (Look for Marvin Bagley to be promoted as well.) One coach told me White was the best player on either team in the Day 2 scrimmages and on Day 3 I saw him damn near replicate that with my own eyes as the select squad played the World Cup squad to a draw in consecutive 10-minute scrimmages.
