Anthony Edwards Named To USA Select Team

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Anthony Edwards, who was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft following one season with the Georgia Bulldogs, has been selected to the 2021 USA Basketball Select Team that will train with USA Basketball's Men's National Team during its Las Vegas training camp.

Edwards is among 13 young standouts from the NBA who will be joined by four veteran players with international USA Basketball experience that will train daily with the USA National Team from July 6-9 at UNLV's Mendenhall Center.

Edwards was a unanimous choice to the NBA's All-Rookie squad after a stellar first season with the Minnesota Timberwolves. Edwards led all qualified rookies in scoring at 19.3 ppg. He was the only rookie to play in all 72 games and among rookies finished the season ranked first in total points (1392), second in total 3-pointers (171), second in total steals (82), third in total rebounds (336) and fifth in total assists (211).

The Atlanta, Georgia native was named the Western Conference Rookie of the Month three times this season (March, April, May). He tallied a rookie-leading 36 20-point games. Edwards erupted for a career-high 42 points in the Timberwolves' victory in Western Conference Champion Phoenix on March 18. At 19 years and 225 days old, Edwards became the third-youngest player in NBA history to score 40+ points behind LeBron James (2003-04, 19y-88d) and Kevin Durant (2007-08, 19y-200d). On April 14, he reached 1000 points on the season and at 19 years and 252 days old became the fifth-youngest player in NBA history to reach that milestone behind James (19y-041d), Kobe Bryant (19y-127d), Durant (19y-146d) and Devin Booker (19y-162d).

Edwards was the 2020 SEC Freshman of the Year and the nation's top-scoring freshman for the Bulldogs at 19.1 points per game. He finished the 2019-20 campaign with 610 points, the 10th-most ever by a freshman in SEC history. In addition to being named the league's top freshman by both coaches and the AP, Edwards was tabbed second-team All-SEC by both groups, was selected as SEC Freshman of the Week a school-record four times, was one of five finalists for the Jerry West National Shooting Guard of the Year Award and was honored as the state of Georgia's College Player of the Year by the Atlanta Tipoff Club.

In addition to Edwards, he Select Team roster features: Saddiq Bey (Detroit Pistons/Villanova); Miles Bridges (Charlotte Hornets/Michigan State); Darius Garland(Cleveland Cavaliers/Vanderbilt); Tyrese Haliburton (Sacramento Kings/Iowa State); Tyler Herro (Miami Heat/Kentucky); John Jenkins (Bilbao Basket, Italy/Vanderbilt); Keldon Johnson (San Antonio Spurs/Kentucky); Josh Magette (Darüafaka Tekfen, Turkey/Alabama-Huntsville); Dakota Mathias (Philadelphia 76ers/Purdue); Immanuel Quickly (New York Knicks/Kentucky); Naz Reid (Minnesota Timberwolves/LSU); Cam Reynolds (Houston Rockets/Tulane); Isaiah Stewart (Detroit Pistons/Washington); Obi Toppin (New York Knicks/Dayton); P.J. Washington (Charlotte Hornets/Kentucky); and Patrick Williams (Chicago Bulls/Florida State).

Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstrawill serve as head coach of the 2021 USA Select Team. Assistant coaches will be as Gonzaga head coach Mark Few, who served as an assistant coach with the 2019 USA Select Team and head coach of the 2015 U.S. Pan American Games Team, and Dallas Mavericks assistant coachJamahl Mosley, who served as an assistant coach at the 2018 USA National Team minicamp.

"This USA Select Team continues the legacy established by previous Select teams of helping prepare our USA National Team for the Tokyo Olympic Games," said Jerry Colangelo, USA Basketball Men's National Team managing director. "With all the uncertainty of how many of our Olympic Team members will be available for the USA training camp because of the overlap with the NBA Finals, we chose a USA Select Team consisting of many of the top young NBA players and four players who not only owninternational experience, but who played recently for USA Basketball in important national team qualifying competitions.If we need to add players to fill out our roster for any of our exhibition games, we feel this USA Select Team has an excellent variety of skilled players to choose from."

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