Basketball Qualification for Summer Olympic Games 2016

[nenad 456]

France has named it's 17-player preliminary squad for OQT. There are no Fournier, Mahinmi, Gobert or Seraphin. But Batum, Parker, Diaw will play.

 

There is the entire squad

 

Tony Parker, Thomas Heurtel, Nando De Colo, Antoine Diot, Fabien Causeur, Rodrigue Beaubois, Nicolas Batum, Charles Kahudi, Yakuba Ouattara, Boris Diaw, Florent Pietrus, Adrien Moerman, Kim Tillie, Mam Jaiteh, Alexis Ajinça, Mickael Gelabale, Joffrey Lauvergne.

[dareza 911]

Serbian team:

 

Stefan Birčević (Estudijantes), Nemanja Bjelica (Minesota), Bogdan Bogdanović (Fenerbahče), Nemanja Dangubić (Crvena zvezda), Marko Gudurić (Crvena zvezda), Ognjen Jaramaz (Mega Leks), Nikola Jokić (Denver), Stefan Jović (Crvena zvezda), Nikola Kalinić (Fenerbahče), Marko Kešelj (Lavrio), Ognjen Kuzmić (bez kluba), Vladimir Lučić (Valensija), Milan Mačvan (Emporio Armani), Stefan Marković (Unikaha), Boban Marjanović (San Antonio), Vasilije Micić (Crvena zvezda), Dragan Milosavljević (Alba), Nikola Milutinov (Olimpijakos), Nemanja Nedović (Unikaha), Miroslav Raduljica (PAO), Marko Simonović (Crvena zvezda), Vladimir Štimac (Crvena zvezda), Miloš Teodosić (CSKA) i Rade Zagorac (Mega Leks).

 

OMG, this is really great.

[nenad 456]

Boban will probably not play. At least OQT.

[dareza 911]

Serbian team for qualification (actually 16 players): Milos Teodosic (CSKA), Stefan Markovic (Unicaja), Stefan Jovic (Crvena Zvezda), Nemanja Nedovic (Unicaja), Bogdan Bogdanovic (Fenerbahce), Rade Zagorac (Mega Leks), Marko Guduric (Crvena Zvezda), Nemanja Dangubic ( Crvena Zvezda), Nikola Kalinic (Fenerbahce), Marko Simonovic (Crvena Zvezda), Milan Macvan (Milano), Nemanja Bjelica (Minnesota Timberwolves) Nikola Milutinov (Olympiacos), Miroslav Raduljica (Panathinaikos), Nikola Jokic (Denver) and Boban Marjanovic (San Antonio)

[nenad 456]

Looks like our federation will pay insurance for Marjanović to play OQT.

[heywoodu 16,459]

1 hour ago, nenad said:

Looks like our federation will pay insurance for Marjanović to play OQT.

They have to pay insurance to the Spurs or otherwise they won't let him go or something like that?

[dareza 911]

9 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

They have to pay insurance to the Spurs or otherwise they won't let him go or something like that?

corectly. That is crazy.

Edited May 30, 2016 by dareza

[dareza 911]

This is reason: His contract will expire 1.7. 2016. Due to regulations, he can not sign before 6.7. 2016. And he will be without insurance 5 days. Main problem is that first match on OQT is 4.7.

 

 

 

 

[nenad 456]

39 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

They have to pay insurance to the Spurs or otherwise they won't let him go or something like that?

 

Not exactly, because he will no longer be a Spur when tournament starts. Batum is in similiar situation as Marjanović, he wants to play but he is a free agent, there is a huge risk for these players to get hurt and miss out on a good contract and a lot of money. NBA teams can't forbid players to play for national teams, they only could recommend to stay in USA for summer. And it's up to players really.

[heywoodu 16,459]

Thanks for clarifying