U.S. HOPES IN HANDS OF NO-NAMES; COLLEGE, CBA PLAYERS IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. No Grant Hill, Gary Payton
abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= lockout lockout, intentional closing up of a company, factory, or shop by an employer to prevent employees from working during a strike or labor dispute. The term lockout in full force, the U.S. squad for the world championships has gone from Dream Team to Team Who? USA Basketball released a list Tuesday of the 30 players invited to this week's training camp for the world championships. The biggest names? Some college kids and a guy who helped make long, baggy shorts and black sneakers sneakers Noun, pl US, Canad, Austral & NZ canvas shoes with rubber soles sneakers npl (US) → zapatos mpl de lona; zapatillas fpl cool as part of Michigan's Fab Five. ``We've been disappointed all the way along the line. But the players we have now are players who wanted to come,'' said Craig Miller, spokesman for USA Basketball. ``These guys are players that never thought they'd get this opportunity. It's their opportunity to make their mark and be part of history.'' Warren Brown, USA Basketball's executive director, was out of the country and unavailable for comment Tuesday. Coach Rudy Tomjanovich was in meetings and most players were traveling to Chicago. Among those competing for a spot on the 12-man world championship roster are Duke star Trajan Langdon, a finalist for the player of the year award Several sports leagues honor their best player with an award called Player of the Year. In the United States, this type of award is usually called a Most Valuable Player award. The awards with the "player of the year" phrasing include these. , and Big East player of the year Richard Hamilton, who flirted with turning pro before deciding to return to Connecticut for his junior season. Mateen Cleaves, the Big Ten's player of the year, also made the list. So did former Fab Fiver Jimmy King, the CBA's 1998 MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. . There are four college players on the list, two who just exhausted their eligibility and 12 CBA See Capital Builder Account. players, nine who played overseas and three who played both overseas and in the CBA. ``We feel confident that out of this group we can and will field a very competitive team, a team that will go out and try to win the world championship,'' Tomjanovich said. The roster will be pared to 12 by the time training camp ends next Tuesday at the Moody Bible Institute History In 1886 D.L. Moody established the Chicago Evangelization Society, for the "education and training of Christian workers, including teachers, ministers, missionaries and musicians who may completely and effectively proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ. . The 1998 FIBA FIBA Fédération Internationale de Basketball (International Basketball Federation) FIBA Florida International Bankers Association FIBA Fédération Internationale de Boxe Amateur FIBA Financial Institution Benefit Association, Inc. World Championships start July 29 in Athens, Greece. USA Basketball initially chose 12 NBA players for its latest version of the Dream Team. But with an NBA lockout looming July 1, the NBA players threatened to boycott the world championships. USA Basketball moved first, dumping the NBA stars on June 16 and announcing it would field a team of current college players, CBA players and Americans playing overseas. ``They've made their statement. USA Basketball needs to go on and field a team,'' Miller said of the NBA stars. ``We've been able to select a team that hopefully will gel and be competitive and bring home the gold medal.'' USA Basketball had hoped to lure former NBA stars like Wilkins and Byron Scott. But both turned down the invitations, with Wilkins saying he didn't want to betray former teammates or their stance in labor negotiations with the NBA. ``It was flattering at first when I found out I was being considered, but if I did it, I would look at myself as betraying the NBA players,'' Wilkins said, according to the Boston Globe. ``And I support what they are trying to do. The more I thought about it, the more I said to myself, `You can't do that!' I just couldn't.'' There were only a few players who shared Wilkins' views and decided not to participate, Miller said. And he doesn't expect any defections to the NBA cause once training camp begins Wednesday. ``They know where we're at. They've expressed excitement (at being here),'' Miller said. Besides a lack of star drawing power - which already has sparked concern from the Greek Basketball Federation - playing a bunch of little-knowns is a risky move for the United States. The world championships help determine what 12 teams go to the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. NOTABLE INVITEES Some of the players who accepted USA Basketball invitations to try out for the 1998 World Championships to be held July 29-Aug. 9 in Athens, Greece, with position, height and last team. Earl Boykins, G, 5-5, Eastern Michigan Acie Earl, C-F, 6-11, La Crosse (CBA) Trajan Langdon, G, 6-3, Duke Randy Livingston, G, 6-4, Sioux Falls (CBA) Gerald Madkins, G, 6-4, Rockford (CBA) CAPTION(S): Box BOX: NOTABLE INVITEES (see text) |
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