After NBA stars Bradley Beal, Anthony Davis, Eric Gordon, James Harden, Tobias Harris, Damian Lillard, Kevin Love, CJ McCollum, and Paul Millsap changed course and declined to participate in the 2019 FIBA World Cup, Usa Basketball Men's National Team Managing Director Jerry Colangelo  today announced the addition of six players to the team and to the roster of players expected to participate in the team's August 5-9 training camp.

The six athletes added to the USA National Team roster and confirmed to participate in the World Cup training camp include NBA standouts Jaylen Brown (Boston Celtics),  Montrezl Harrell (Los Angeles Clippers), Mason Plumlee (Denver Nuggets), Julius Randle (New York Knicks), Marcus Smart (Boston Celtics) and Thaddeus Young (Chicago Bulls). Each of the six players possess previous USA Basketball experience.

"Since USA Basketball started the men's national team program in 2006, we have understood the necessity of fluidity within the program and the importance of having a deep national team roster that features both young and veteran standout NBA players," said Colangelo. "The six players we added today are all outstanding players in their own right, and along with the other players who will attend the World Cup Team training camp, will offer Coach Popovich and his staff some remarkable athleticism and versatility."

Even with the Americans' drop in star power, the U.S. roster still will have more overall talent and depth than any other nation in the tournament.

The other USA National Team members confirmed to participate in the World Cup Training Camp in Las Vegas include: Harrison Barnes, Andre Drummond, Kyle Kuzma, Brook Lopez, Kyle Lowry, Khris Middleton, Donovan Mitchell, Jayson Tatum, P.J. Tucker, Myles Turner, and Kemba Walker.

The official, 12-member roster for the 2019 USA Basketball Men's World Cup Team will be announced on August 17.

The 32-team 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup competition will be held August 31-September 15 in China.  The United States, two-time defending World Cup champion and FIBA's No. 1 world ranked team, was drawn into Group E and will play its first-round games in Shanghai. The USA will play Czech Republic on Sept. 1, Turkey on Sept. 3 and Japan on Sept. 5.

Additionally, USA Basketball announced the 13-member USA Select Team that will train alongside and against the USA National Team Aug. 5-9.  The Select Team roster includes four members of the 2018-19 NBA All-Rookie first and second teams.

Selected for the 2019 USA Basketball Select Team were: Jarrett Allen (Brooklyn Nets); Marvin Bagley III (Sacramento Kings); Mikal Bridges  (Phoenix Suns); Jalen Brunson (Dallas Mavericks); John Collins (Atlanta Hawks); Pat Connaughton (Milwaukee Bucks); De'Aaron Fox (Sacramento Kings); Joe Harris (Brooklyn Nets); Jonathan Isaac (Orlando Magic); Mitchell Robinson (New York Knicks); Landry Shamet (Los Angeles Clippers/Wichita State); Derrick White (San Antonio Spurs); and Trae Young (Atlanta Hawks).

The Select Team members also will join with the National Team players and participate in the USA Blue versus USA White exhibition game that is scheduled for 7 p.m. (PDT) Aug. 9 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Following the Las Vegas camp, which concludes with a USA Blue versus USA White exhibition game on Aug. 9 at the T-Mobile Arena,selected team finalists will take a short break and will reassemble in Los Angeles and train Aug. 13-15, then play an exhibition contest versus FIBA's No. 2 world ranked team, Spain, at the Honda Center in Anaheim on Aug. 16.

The American squad will continue its World Cup preparations August19-24 in Melbourne, Australia, and play a pair of exhibition games versus Australia on Augsut 22 and August 24 at Marvel Stadium. The USA will complete its pre-World Cup tour Augsut 25-28 in Sydney, Australia. Slated to conduct training August 25, 27 and 28, the U.S. will close out its exhibition tour on August 26 facing Canada at Qudos Bank Arena.

The 2018-20 USA Basketball National Team coaching staff features USA and San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich. Serving as USA assistant coaches are Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr, Atlanta Hawks head coach Lloyd Pierce, and Villanova University head coach Jay Wright.

Former NBA head coach Jeff Van Gundy, who served as head coach of the 2017-19 USA Basketball's six World Cup Qualifying Teams and the gold medalist 2017 USA AmeriCup team, will serve as head coach of the 2019 USA Basketball Select Team. Gonzaga head coach Mark Few, who served as head coach of the 2015 USA Pan American Games Team, will serve as a Select Team assistant coach.

By Staff of TheDailySportsHerald.com