Jerry Colangelo will remain patient with finalizing the roster for USA Basketball ahead of the Olympics. USA Basketball will conduct a minicamp as early as July 1st in Las Vegas.
“I’ll cut to the chase because people are asking me, ‘A lot of teams are out (of the playoffs) – are you going to get early commitments from certain people?’ ” Colangelo told USA TODAY. “That’s not the way we’re going to deal with this. We have interest in all of them. There’s a lot of variables, and so we’re going to do inventory after the first round. There’ll be a number of players who we have interest in that conceivably are available after the first round. There’s no rush because we have the flexibility.”
Colangelo could possibly hold a spot for a few players who reach the Conference Finals and beyond.
“It’s conceivable, there will be a few players who are competing in the Finals and want to participate and we want them to participate,” Colangelo said. “But we don’t know who that’s going to be. We have to wait and see. That’s why we’ll take inventory after each round. It’s possible that we don’t end up with 12 in Las Vegas and we bring a couple of guys at the last minute.”
The current deadline to turn in Olympic rosters is July 5th, just before the start of The Finals.
