Beijing News (reporter Xu Bangyin) on the evening of July 24, Serbia held a press conference on men’s basketball. Coach peciqi confirmed that the number one star joki would miss the men’s basketball World Cup in 2023. At the same time, Serbia announced the 20-person primary list for preparing for the World Cup, led by three NBA players, Bogdan Bogdanovic, pokshevski and jovich.
Serbia is the first opponent of China men’s basketball in the men’s basketball World Cup in 2023. The two teams are in Group B together and will compete with Puerto Rico and South Sudan for the two teams to qualify. Pecic introduced that since he was not prepared for the World Cup mentally and physically, Joki, who led the Nuggets to win the NBA championship not long ago, will not participate in the World Cup with the team.
Among the active Serbian players, except for the absence of MVP in the two regular season and MVP in the finals of Xinke, yokki, who just signed a 3-year contract with thunder, boban Marianovic, who played for the Rockets last season, did not enter the 20-person list.
However, there are still many famous generals under peisic’s command. Bogdanovic was appointed as the captain of the team. In the men’s basketball World Cup in 2019, Serbia won the fifth place men’s basketball. Bogdanovic contributed 22.9 points, 4.1 rebounds and 4.4 assists, with a three-point hit rate of 55.6%, not only did yokki become the scoring king in the team, but also he was selected as the best team in the event. Bogda Norwich currently plays for the Eagles, with an average of 14 points, 3.1 rebounds and 2.8 assists in the regular season last season.
The young bokushevski and Nikolai jovich will also be the key to Serbia’s success in men’s basketball. The 21-year-old bokushevski landed in NBA in 2020 and currently plays for Thunder. He contributed 8.1 points and 4.7 rebounds in the regular season last season. The 20-year-old Nikolai jovich landed in NBA last season, with an average score of 2.1 points in the regular season, which also represented the Heat fighting in the finals of last season.
Players such as gudulic and smayilagic have also played in NBA, and are currently playing in European leagues such as Turkey, Serbia and Greece. Players such as yaramaz also have the experience of being selected by NBA teams, and most of them currently play for European giants.
According to the team’s preparation plan, Serbia will participate in two friendly matches one after another from the beginning of August. On August 20-21, the “international solidarity Cup” will be held in Shenzhen, serbia led by Bogdanovic will fight with the Chinese men’s basketball led by Li Kael. A week later, the two teams will encounter in the first battle of the men’s basketball World Cup group match in 2023.
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