May 8, 2002

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USF's War Memorial Gymnasium will again host some of the nation's top basketball players when the USA Men's National Team will practice on the USF campus from August 19-21 in preparation for the World Championships held in Indianapolis. USF has hosted other USA Basketball teamd and NBA teams for training sessions on a regular basis.

Opening its pre-World Championship training on Aug. 17 in Oakland, Calif., the 2002 USA Basketball Men's World Championship Team will spend 12 days leading up to the Aug. 29-Sept. 8 FIBA World Basketball Championship For Men training in Oakland; San Francisco, Calif.; Portland, Oregon, and Indianapolis, Indiana, and will play a pair of exhibition games against the Chinese World Championship Team in Oakland and the German World Championship Team in Portland.

"Our goal during training camp is to provide the USA Basketball World Championship team with a solid training camp experience which will include two games against opponents who will test our team and allow our players to gain additional international experience," said Stu Jackson, Chair of USA Basketball's Senior Men's National Team Committee. "Both China and Germany are world class opponents with tremendous talent with the likes of Wang Zhizhi and Yao Ming for China and Dirk Nowitzki of Germany."

Beginning its training on Saturday,Aug. 17 at the Golden State Warriors' practice facility, the USA will also train at the Warriors' site Aug. 18, and will train Aug. 19-21 at the University of San Francisco's War Memorial Gym. The United States will play an exhibition game against China at The Arena in Oakland on Thursday, Aug. 22, 7 p.m. (local time). Tickets for the USA-China game will be available via the internet at www.tickets.com beginning on Saturday, May 25.

2002  USA  Basketball  Men's  World  Championship  Team

NAME	POS	HGT	WGT	DOB	PRO TEAM / COLLEGE
Ray Allen	       G	6-5	205	07/20/75	Milwaukee Bucks / Connecticut '96
Antonio Davis	C	6-9	230	10/31/68	Toronto Raptors / Texas-El Paso '90
Michael Finley	G	6-7	215	03/06/73	Dallas Mavericks / Wisconsin '95
Jason Kidd	G	6-4	212	03/23/73	New Jersey Nets / California '94
Raef LaFrentz	F/C	6-11	240	05/29/76	Dallas Mavericks / Kansas '98
Shawn Marion	F	6 7	215	05/07/78	Phoenix Suns / UNLV '99
Andre Miller	G	6-2	200	03/19/76	Cleveland Cavaliers / Utah '99
Reggie Miller	G	6-7	195	09/24/65	Indiana Pacers / UCLA '87
Jermaine O'Neal	C/F	6 11	242	10/13/78	Indiana Pacers / Eau Claire High School (SC) '96
Paul Pierce	F	6-6	230	10/13/77	Boston Celtics / Kansas '98
*TBD
*TBD


ALTERNATES
Jason Williams	G	6-2	195	09/10/81	Duke '02
*TBD

Head Coach:   George Karl, Milwaukee Bucks
Assistant Coach: Gregg Popovich, San Antonio Spurs
Assistant Coach: Mike Montgomery, Stanford University (Calif.)
Assistant Coach:  Kelvin Sampson, University of Oklahoma