10 active NBA players! Form a national team! The ranking of the Chinese men s basketball team continues to decline

On June 13, Jamaica Men's Basketball Team officially announced that Clippers player Norman Powell officially joined the team. Powell said in the video: "I am very excited to join the Jamaica men's basketball team, and I know there is still a lot of work next. I will represent Jamaica in the qualifiers of the Americas in the World Cup, and I am ready to go all out." There is only one Powell joining, what's there to write about? Powell was the beginning of Jamaica men's basketball signings. Rockets player Amen Thompson and Pistons player Osar Thompson promised to play for the Jamaica men's basketball team and help the team compete for the World Cup and Olympics. The Thompsons are entering the naturalization process, waiting for the official announcement of Jamaica.

Powell can attack, and the Thompsons can defend. Meanwhile, Timberwolves player Josh Minot announced his appearance for the Jamaica men's basketball team. There are still 6 NBA players who are negotiating with the Jamaica men's basketball team: Scotty Barnes, Isaiah Stewart, Devin Wassel, Nick Richards, Justin Champany, and Julian Champany.

If the Jamaican men's basketball team can handle all of them, they will have 10 active NBA players, with the same number as that of the Canadian men's basketball team, second only to the American men's basketball team. Jamaica did not pay attention to basketball before, and Jamaica men's basketball ranked 107th in the world. After taking office, Jamaica men's basketball coach Nick Turner began to promote plans to recruit NBA players.

Powell was born and raised in the United States and is a U.S. nationality, but he has Jamaican descent, which Nick Turner has successfully recruited. The Jamaican men's basketball team's strategy is similar to that of South Sudan and the Bahamas: looking for players of their own ancestry in the NBA, helping them naturalize, and retaining American nationality. What's even more outrageous is that it does not occupy naturalized quotas. There will be no resistance to the Thompson brothers naturalized to Jamaica, their father is Jamaican. Thompson's uncle is a Jamaica 400-meter hurdles player and once represented Jamaica in the 1992 Olympics. FIBA actually has regulations: you must be naturalized before the age of 16 to represent the national team. But, there are exceptions in everything.

In the past two years, FIBA ​​has opened backdoors for many teams, the more typical of which is the Bahamas. Eric Gordon played in the Basketball World Cup for the US Men's Basketball Team in 2010 and began playing for the Bahamas in 2023. The Bahamas and Jamaica are both North American countries. Jamaica is now learning from the Bahamas, and the team lineup is even more outrageous.

This season's NBA regular season, Powell averaged 21.8 points, 3.2 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.2 steals in the Clippers, with three shooting percentages: 48.4%, 41.8%, and 80.4%. Amen Thompson averaged 14.1 points, 8.2 rebounds, 3.8 assists, 1.4 steals and 1.3 blocks per game in the Rockets this season, with three shooting percentages: 55.7%, 27.5%, and 68.4%.

Wasel averaged 16.3 points, 4 rebounds, 2.9 assists, 1.3 steals and 0.5 blocks per game in the Spurs this season, with three shooting percentages: 44.3%, 36.8%, 79.2%. Barnes averaged 19.3 points, 7.7 rebounds, 5.8 assists, 1.4 steals and 1 block in the Raptors, with a shooting percentage of 44.6%, 27.1%, and 75.5% in three events. These four will be the core of Jamaica!

Currently, the Chinese men's basketball team ranks 30th in the world, far higher than Jamaica (107). With several NBA players joining Jamaica, the ranking of the Chinese men's basketball team is about to decline again...