Podcast: Nike Hoop Summit World Team Roster Preview

With less than a week to go before NBA personnel converge on Portland, we conducted a podcast previewing the Nike Hoop Summit World Team roster with Sam Meyerkopf of EuroleagueAdventures.com

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We go in-depth on each prospect on the World Team roster, which features Mario Hezonja, Sergey Karasev, Mouhammadou Jaiteh, Nikola Ivanovic, Karl Towns, Dennis Schroeder, Gabriel Deck, Dante Exum, Livio Jean-Charles, and Andrew Wiggins.  

Topics discussed include:

0:00 – 10:00: What's more important the game or week of practice?  What goes through the decision for a guy to leave his pro team and come over?
10:00 – 13:00: Sergey Karasev and his recent Draft declaration.
13:00 – 22:00: Who's going to be the starting Point Guard of this team: Dennis Schroeder, Nikola Ivanovic, or Dante Exum?
22:00 – 25:00: How much thought is put into how the players will blend together? Plus Gabriel Deck talk.
25:00 – 30:00: Mario Hezonja
30:00 – 38:00: We profile Andrew Wiggins, Mouhammadou Jaiteh, Livio Jean-Charles, and Karl Towns.
38:00 – 40:00: Who would Jonathan's closing five on the World Team be?

You can listen to the podcast here.