USA hoops names 15 finalists for World Championship team

The United States men's basketball World Championship team named 15 players that were selected as finalists, USA basketball senior national team managing director Jerry Colangelo and USA head coach Mike Krzyzewski announced on Tuesday.

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Carmelo Anthony of the Denver Nuggets; Gilbert Arenas and Antawn Jamison of the Washington Wizards; the Houston Rockets' Shane Battier; Chris Bosh of the Toronto Raptors; Bruce Bowen of the San Antonio Spurs; the Clippers' Elton Brand; Kirk Hinrich of the Chicago Bulls; Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic; the Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James; Joe Johnson of the Atlanta Hawks; Brad Miller of the Sacramento Kings; Chris Paul of the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets; the Phoenix Suns' Amare Stoudemire and Dwyane Wade of the world champion Miami Heat were each named as finalists to make the team.

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The official 12-man roster that will compete in the FIBA World Championship must be submitted to FIBA at the technical meeting that normally is held the day prior to the start of the competition.

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The USA finalists will take a five-day break and will reconvene in Las Vegas on July 31 for the start of the second phase of the team's training. "I think everything in our first phase of training was set up well and what we wanted to do in this phase was to pick 15, 16 or even 14 players to go forward with," Krzyzewski said.