2024-06-03 22:21:06
Luka Banki, the top coach of the nationwide workforce, has included 24 basketball gamers within the prolonged circle of candidates for the nationwide workforce. For a number of the gamers, the season within the golf equipment has already ended, however some are nonetheless collaborating within the decisive matches of the nationwide league.
Among the many candidates can also be Porzingis, who will begin the battle with the Boston “Celtics” within the last sequence of the Nationwide Basketball Affiliation (NBA) this week. The Latvian athlete has not been on the sphere because the first spherical of the NBA playoffs, when he suffered an damage, however he already skilled with the workforce final weekend.
From Monday, June 3, candidates for the nationwide workforce have the chance to take part in particular person coaching classes in Riga.
The official nationwide workforce coaching camp will begin on June 17, and 15-16 gamers shall be invited to it.
Throughout the preparation, two take a look at matches are deliberate – on June 26, “Enviornment Riga” with the Egyptian nationwide workforce and on June 28 away with the Finnish nationwide workforce.
The battle for the best to play within the Paris Olympic Video games match will happen in “Enviornment Riga” from July 2 to 7.
The nationwide workforce of Latvia will play in subgroup A with the nationwide workforce of Georgia and the workforce of the Philippines. The 2 greatest groups of the subgroup will play among the finest groups of subgroup B (Brazil, Montenegro and Cameroon) within the semi-finals on Saturday. The winners of the semi-final matches will combat for the one ticket to Paris on Sunday, July 7.
Candidates of the Latvian males’s basketball workforce for the qualification match of the Paris Olympic Video games:
Rodions Kurucs, Artūrs Kurucs (each – Murcia UCAM, Spain), Krišs Helmanis (Tübingen “Tigers”, Germany), Ojārs Siliņš (Larger Poland Ostrava “Stal”, Poland), Mareks Mejeris (Cluj-Napoca U-BT, Romania), Kristaps Porzingis (Boston Celtics, NBA), Dāvis Bertāns (Charlotte Hornets, NBA), Dairis Bertāns (VEF Riga), Jānis Timma, Jānis Strēlnieks (each – Santiago de Compostela Obradoiro, Spain), Roland Šmits (“Žalgiris” of Kaunas, Lithuania), Artūrs Strautiņš (“Derthona” of Tortona, Italy), Artis Ate (“Pieno žvaigzdes” of Pasvāle, Lithuania), Klāvs Čavars (“Yokohama”, Japan), Rihards Lomažs (“Virtus” of Bologna ) “Palencia”, Spain), Kārlis Šiliņš (“Gottingen”, Germany), Toms Leimanis (Madrid “Movistar Estudiantes”, Spain), Kristers Zoriks (Izmir “Petkimspor”, Turkey), Artūrs Žagars (Vilnius “Wolves”, Lithuania) .
2024-06-03 22:21:06