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Bynum Interested in Being Team USA Center of the Future

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Centers are hard to find. It's the case in the NBA as well as with USA Basketball. But the Los Angeles Lakers' Andrew Bynum, who has a shot to be this decade's second-best center after Orlando's Dwight Howard, would like to help. Bynum turned down an invitation to be with USA Basketball in preparation for...

USA Basketball: Door 'Wide Open' for Possible Tayshaun Prince Return

Olympic gold medalist Tayshaun Prince was a bit miffed to first learn on ESPN about the latest players tabbed for Team USA. But USA Basketball officials offered assurance Friday the door is "wide open'' for a possible return by Prince to Team USA consideration. In an interview earlier this week with FanHouse, the Detroit...

Stoudemire Most Intriguing of 27 Players Named for Team USA

Andrew Bynum and Rajon Rondo turned down invitations. But that was no problem since USA Basketball had plenty of eager replacements. In fact, it seemed as though Amar'e Stoudemire's days with Team USA were done. But the Phoenix forward, who had turned off USA Basketball officials by pulling out before the 2008 Olympics,...

Colangelo: Bosh Set for World Games, LeBron Closer to Saying 'Yes'

Team USA is looking A-OK. That's the word from USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo, confident about having the bulk of the 2008 Olympic gold-medal team back for this summer's World Championships in Turkey. In an interview with FanHouse on Friday night, Colangelo said Toronto star Chris Bosh has committed to play for...

Danny Ainge's '96-97 Suns Give Hope to Winless Nets

It got to the point when all Danny Ainge and his family could do to keep sane was laugh.So Ainge's teenage nephew, Owen Toolson, offered up a knock-knock joke."Knock, knock,'' he said to his uncle."Who's there?''"Owen.''"Owen who.'' "Owen-13.''Ainge, you see, coached the Phoenix Suns in 1996-97, and they got off to a 0-13...

JerryColangelo News From the Web

05/21/12 2012 London Olympics Blog: Colangelo Remains Confident... Source: International Herald Tribune Despite the rash of injuries that has shrunk the pool of players for the United States men's basketball team at the London Games, including the loss of two potential starters in Dwight Howard and Derrick Rose, USA Basketball's chairman, Jerry Colangelo, said Monday that the pool remained deep enough and talented enough for the United States to remain the Olympic favorite.
05/19/12 Bob Finnan's NBA notes: Kidd-Gilchrist's outside... Source: The News-Herald - Willoughby OH "He is a great athlete who has a great motor," he said.
05/15/12 London 2012 Olympics: USA basketball roster deadline... Source: The Washington Post - Washington DC Team USA could use another big man like Kentucky's Anthony Davis.
05/14/12 Krzyzewski not likely to return for 2016 Olympics Source: Houma Today - Houma LA The Duke coach was brought in before the 2008 Games to revive a struggling Olympic team, which had finished a disappointing third in Athens.
05/10/12 US men's basketball team gets time to find answers Source: The Garden Island - Lihu'e HI The U.S. men's basketball team has more time to solve the problems caused by its injuries.