Amen Thompson is interested in joining! The U.S. men's basketball team, panic! This is the NBA's defensive gate

Wow, big event.

The Thompson brothers, who are considering playing in FIBA for the Jamaican men's basketball team, have already begun the process of obtaining Jamaican citizenship from a Jamaican father.

The two brothers are Rockets player Amen Thompson, who averaged 14.1 points, 8.2 rebounds, 3.8 assists, 1.4 steals and 1.3 blocks per game in the regular season this season, 15.7 points, 6.9 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 1.7 steals per game in the playoffs, and was selected to the All-Defensive Team for a while, Pistons player Osar Thompson averaged 10.1 points, 5.1 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.7 steals per game in the regular season and 11.5 points, 5.2 rebounds, 1 assist and 1.2 steals per game in the playoffs.

This is not an unfounded rumor, this is the kind of picture and truth that the Thompson brothers personally expressed in their recent speech to the Jamaican Basketball Association and the Jamaica Olympic Association held at the S Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica.

The Thompson brothers are both well-known talented wings in the NBA today, and playing FIBA should also be basket destroyers who fly into the sky at every turn, and no opponent is willing to play directly against them anyway.

It is worth mentioning that before thatClippers star Jerome Powell has pledged to represent the Jamaican men's basketball team in this summer's '27 men's basketball World Cup Americas qualifiers。 In the regular season this season, Powell averaged 21.8 points, 3.2 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.2 steals per game, and in the playoffs, he averaged 16 points, 2.4 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.1 steals per game.

Not only that, but the Jamaican men's basketball team is also possible to join Nick Richards (Suns), Justin Champagnie (Wizards), Julian Champagnie (Spurs) and Josh Minott (Timberwolves), among others...... It seems that another world powerhouse is about to be born, and it is expected to directly challenge the US men's basketball team in the Americas qualifiers.

The 27 World Cup Qualifiers for the Americas are grouped as follows:

Group A: USA, Dominica, North American Qualifier Winners and Nicaragua; 2nd place in the qualifiers for Puerto Rico, Canada, Bahamas and North America in Group B; Winners of the qualifying rounds of the Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia and South American Qualifiers in Group C; 2nd place in Group D for Argentina, Uruguay, Panama and South American Qualifiers.

In fact, in recent years, there have been many incidents of NBA players with American nationality intending to transfer their nationality or choose a second national team, Mavericks star Thompson once wanted to bring his talent to the Bahamas men's basketball team but was rejected by the American Basketball Association, and the former core guard of the American men's basketball team, Irving, now insists on playing on behalf of the Australian men's basketball team.

Since Thompson & Irving have both played in official FIBA tournaments for the U.S. men's basketball team before, if they want to play for other countries, they must first go through the permission of FIBA officials and the United States Basketball Association, and the Thompson brothers and Powell have not cooperated with the U.S. men's basketball team, so they can directly join the Jamaican men's basketball team.

It seems that the U.S. men's basketball team is no longer absolutely sweet, and the crisis of brain drain is getting worse day by day. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that some NBA players know that they have no hope of joining the US men's basketball team, and they want to play in international competitions such as the World Cup and the Olympics, so they want to "find another shortcut" to play for other countries, but Amen Thompson definitely does not belong to this category, and he has the potential to be selected for the dream team in the future.

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