Stevens,Smart & Turner selected for team World

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http://www.csnne.com/boston-celtics/brad-stevens-marcus-smart-evan-turner-be-part-of-first-nba-game-in-africa

[bdm860]

Team Africa’s roster will include Miami’s Luol Deng; Portland’s Al-Farouq Aminu; Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo; Nicolas Batum of Charlotte; Bismack Biyombo of Toronto; San Antonio’s Boris Diaw; Minnesota’s Gorgui Dieng; Festus Ezeli of the NBA champion Golden State Warriors; Oklahoma City’s Serge Ibaka and Sacramento’s Luc Mbah a Moute.

So Team Africa is going to roll out a team of nothing but 10 Centers and Forwards?

[Donoghus]

Too bad Stevens is gonna be an assistant under Hollins rather than Pop. 

[Lucky17]

Team Africa’s roster will include Miami’s Luol Deng; Portland’s Al-Farouq Aminu; Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo; Nicolas Batum of Charlotte; Bismack Biyombo of Toronto; San Antonio’s Boris Diaw; Minnesota’s Gorgui Dieng; Festus Ezeli of the NBA champion Golden State Warriors; Oklahoma City’s Serge Ibaka and Sacramento’s Luc Mbah a Moute.

So Team Africa is going to roll out a team of nothing but 10 Centers and Forwards?

Positionless basketball. It's all the rage.

[jpotter33]

Team Africa’s roster will include Miami’s Luol Deng; Portland’s Al-Farouq Aminu; Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo; Nicolas Batum of Charlotte; Bismack Biyombo of Toronto; San Antonio’s Boris Diaw; Minnesota’s Gorgui Dieng; Festus Ezeli of the NBA champion Golden State Warriors; Oklahoma City’s Serge Ibaka and Sacramento’s Luc Mbah a Moute.

So Team Africa is going to roll out a team of nothing but 10 Centers and Forwards?

I'm missing something. How is this Team "Africa"? Ante is from Greece, and Batum and Diaw are from France.

[GreenCoffeeBean]

Team Africa’s roster will include Miami’s Luol Deng; Portland’s Al-Farouq Aminu; Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo; Nicolas Batum of Charlotte; Bismack Biyombo of Toronto; San Antonio’s Boris Diaw; Minnesota’s Gorgui Dieng; Festus Ezeli of the NBA champion Golden State Warriors; Oklahoma City’s Serge Ibaka and Sacramento’s Luc Mbah a Moute.

So Team Africa is going to roll out a team of nothing but 10 Centers and Forwards?

Apparently you've never seen Boris Diaw completely run Edited.  Profanity and masked profanity are against forum rules and may result in discipline. at Point Guard!

[Tr1boy]

Has this improved Turners worth? More trade value?

[iadera]

Team Africa’s roster will include Miami’s Luol Deng; Portland’s Al-Farouq Aminu; Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo; Nicolas Batum of Charlotte; Bismack Biyombo of Toronto; San Antonio’s Boris Diaw; Minnesota’s Gorgui Dieng; Festus Ezeli of the NBA champion Golden State Warriors; Oklahoma City’s Serge Ibaka and Sacramento’s Luc Mbah a Moute.

So Team Africa is going to roll out a team of nothing but 10 Centers and Forwards?

I'm missing something. How is this Team "Africa"? Ante is from Greece, and Batum and Diaw are from France.

They have african roots.

[CelticsBR]

I'd say a lot of basketball players from team World also have african roots

[max215]

Would be pretty awkward if we traded Turner now.

[max215]

I'd say a lot of basketball players from team World also have african roots

Those specific guys have African parents. I'm pretty sure Giannis' parents are immigrants from Nigeria.

[SHAQATTACK]

No Sully ?

[ImShakHeIsShaq]

Great job!! Give some of the Celts their due! We are the best!

[LGC88]

Team Africa’s roster will include Miami’s Luol Deng; Portland’s Al-Farouq Aminu; Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo; Nicolas Batum of Charlotte; Bismack Biyombo of Toronto; San Antonio’s Boris Diaw; Minnesota’s Gorgui Dieng; Festus Ezeli of the NBA champion Golden State Warriors; Oklahoma City’s Serge Ibaka and Sacramento’s Luc Mbah a Moute.

So Team Africa is going to roll out a team of nothing but 10 Centers and Forwards?

I'm missing something. How is this Team "Africa"? Ante is from Greece, and Batum and Diaw are from France.

Indeed, even though Batum is born in France, he has both parents Cameroonian and identify himself as African. Diaw is born is France with a French mother and Senegalese father.

[Celtics18]

Dennis Schroder's mom is African.  I believe Emmanuel Mudiay has African parents as well (I think he might even have been born in Africa). 

They should have put those two on the African team so they could have a couple of guards.