Team USA Replaces Brook Lopez With JaVale McGee

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There goes another big man.



Team USA has lost New Jersey's Brook Lopez, the sixth significant post player to have departed in the past three weeks. Lopez dropped off the team due to his bout with mono and was replaced Wednesday by Washington center JaVale McGee as Team USA prepares for the World Championship, Aug. 28-Sept. 12 in Turkey.



McGee had been with the team for a July 20-24 Las Vegas training camp and was cut last Wednesday when the roster was reduced from 19 to 15 for a training camp next week in New York. However, USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo had said at the time of the cuts that McGee could be invited back.

 

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