Paolo Banchero will play for the US national basketball team – Corriere.it

Sin. Paolo Banchero will not play for the Italian national basketball team, but for the United States. Thus at the World Cup in Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia which will be held from August 25 to September 10 next, the new star of the Orlando Magic, (American mother and father of Ligurian origins), with Italian citizenship, will wear the jersey of the stars and stripes team .

The decision arrived today after months of waiting (and uncertainty). At the beginning of June, his agent Mike Miller had said: For a young player like Paolo, it is always positive to have different options to choose from. He would like to play for both countries, but he knows very well he can’t do it, so a decision will have to be made but at the moment we don’t know when that will be – it could take two days, or it could take three months. It actually took much less. The opportunity to serve in a formation that could give him Olympic and world titles in the future is too tempting. After all, in his first year in the NBA, in addition to receiving the Freshman of the Year award in his first year in the NBA, Banchero averaged 20 points, 6.9 rebounds, 3.7 assists per game in 33.8 minutes in 72 games played.