Bynum Interested in Being Team USA Center of the Future

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OKLAHOMA CITY -- Centers are hard to find. It's the case in the NBA as well as with USA Basketball.



But the Los Angeles Lakers' Andrew Bynum, who has a shot to be this decade's second-best center after Orlando's Dwight Howard, would like to help. Bynum turned down an invitation to be with USA Basketball in preparation for this summer's World Championships in Turkey because of injuries. He said he wants to be with Team USA in the future.



"I definitely do some day,'' Bynum said in an interview Friday with FanHouse. "If my body feels good and I don't have any serious injuries, yeah.''



Bynum realizes he might not be a candidate for the 2012 Olympics because he turned down a three-summer commitment in February. But he said "probably the next round'' of selections he would be interested, which could put Bynum in line for the 2014 World Championships and the 2016 Olympics.



Considering Bynum, 22, would be just 28 during the 2016 Olympics, it's not unrealistic to look at him as Team USA's center of the future. Who knows if Howard, 30 in 2016, would want to come back then for a possible third Olympics?

 

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