Eric Gordon will go well with up for the Bahamas Nationwide Basketball Crew, although he helped Crew USA win gold in 2010 on the FIBA World Cup.
Since then, Gordon has reportedly wished to make the change to the Bahamas workforce as his mom hails from the area.
Bahamas basketball website tenth 12 months Seniors confirmed the information on Monday.
“USA Basketball granted Gordon’s launch and FIBA authorised his change of nation illustration resulting from Article 22 of its Inner Rules,” they tweeted.
“Article 22 prohibits a participant from altering nationwide workforce allegiance as soon as he has participated in a significant FIBA competitors. Gordon beforehand competed for the USA within the 2010 FIBA World Cup. The article may be amended at FIBAs discretion if the participant is becoming a member of a creating nationwide workforce program and the transfer is deemed “in the perfect curiosity of basketball.”
Gordon instantly joined the workforce and took part within the second pleasant recreation in Puerto Rico in opposition to the Kansas Jayhawks on Monday.
He was the workforce’s second-highest level scorer with 12 and grabbed two assists within the contest.
Fellow NBA participant Buddy Hield was the workforce’s finest as he recorded 19 factors, 4 rebounds to go along with 4 assists.
Deandre Ayton and Kai Jones are two different NBA gamers on the roster that might be aiming to take the Bahamas to the 2024 Olympics by pre-qualifying on the FIBA Americas video games.
These video games will happen on August 14-20 in Santiago del Estero and La Banda, Argentina.
Argentina, Bahamas, Cuba and Panama are in Group Some time Chile, Colombia, Virgin Islands and Uruguay are in Group B.
The highest two groups from every group advance to the semifinals and the 5 groups that win the pre-qualifying tournaments advance to subsequent yr’s FIBA Olympic qualifying tournaments in July.
The winners of these will earn a spot within the 2024 Summer season Olympics in Paris.
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