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LAS VEGAS -- A condensed season of basketball will grow even longer and even more taxing on Friday. That's when USA Basketball opens its Olympic men's training camp for more than a score of NBA players. A dozen of them will be expected to win another gold medal when the Olympic final takes place in London on Aug. 12.
The 15 finalists to make the Olympic roster will spend Friday and Saturday at practice before USAB chairman Jerry Colangelo and head coach Mike Krzyzewski announce the final 12-man roster on a live TV special on Saturday night. That will set off three weeks of training, a regimen that should help the players recover from a lockout-abridged NBA season and force them to simulate a game every other day with little in the way of an NBA training camp or practice.
The plan calls for the U.S. to train in four cities (across three countries) and to play five exhibition games against Olympic rivals before attending the Opening Ceremony on July 27.
Krzyzewski will be sensitive to the needs of the players,
The 15 finalists to make the Olympic roster will spend Friday and Saturday at practice before USAB chairman Jerry Colangelo and head coach Mike Krzyzewski announce the final 12-man roster on a live TV special on Saturday night. That will set off three weeks of training, a regimen that should help the players recover from a lockout-abridged NBA season and force them to simulate a game every other day with little in the way of an NBA training camp or practice.
The plan calls for the U.S. to train in four cities (across three countries) and to play five exhibition games against Olympic rivals before attending the Opening Ceremony on July 27.
Krzyzewski will be sensitive to the needs of the players,
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