Feb 13, 2015

2/13/2015 03:43:00 PM
A nice display of what's to come a few months or even years down the road as the "Logo" does it's annual Rising Star Challenge featuring the Rookies vs  the 2nd-year players. This year it is a little different as the NBA has taken a page out of the Nike Basketball as they go Team U.S.A. vs World talking HS Seniors vs the World's best Amateur players.

Now we have the best young players going U.S.A. vs the World at the Barclays tonight at 9pm ET...the Rosters:

WORLD Squad 

SF/SG Giannis Antetokounmpo #FearTheDeer Greece
SF Bojan Bogdanovic #BKNets Croatia
PG Matt Dellavedova #Believeland Australia
C Gorgui Deng #TWolves Senegal
PG/SG Dante Exum #SaltPalaceJazz Australia
C Rudy Gobert #SaltPalaceJazz France
SF Nikola Mirotic #WestSideStoryReport Montenegro
SG  Kosta Papanikolaou #RedNation Greece
PG Dennis Schorder #HighlightFactory Germany
SF Andrew Wiggins #TWolves Canada  

Lead Man: Kenny Atkinson #HighlightFactory

U.S. SQUAD

PG Trey Burke #SaltPalaceJazz Michigan
SG Kentavious Caldwell-Pope #MotorCityPistons Georgia
PF Robert Covington #SeventySixers Tennessee State
PG Zach LaVine #TWolves UCLA
SF Shabazz Muhammad #TWolves #UCLA
PF Nerlens Noel #SeventySixers UK
PG/SG Victor Oladipo #OMagic Indiana
PG Elfriid Payton #OMagic ULL
PF/C Mason Plumlee #BKNets Duke
PF/C Cody Zeller #ItsABuzzLife Indiana

Lead Man: Alvin Gentry #DubNation

Tip-Off at 9pm ET on TNT...




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