Former Alabama Basketball Star Named to USA Select Team

Former Alabama star and now New Orleans Pelican Herb Jones has been named to the USA Basketball's Select Team, joining 13 other current and former NBA players.

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The USA Select Team will practice with the USABMNT from August 3-6 in preparation for the FIBA World Cup.

Full USA Select team roster:

• Cade Cunningham, G (Piston) 
• Jalen Duren, C (Piston)
• Langston Galloway, G (G-League)
• Jalen Green, G (Rockets)
• Quentin Grimes, G (Knicks)
• Chet Holmgren, C (Thunder)
• John Jenkins, G (Bàsquet Girona, Spain)
• Herb Jones, F (Pelicans)
• Eric Mika, C (G-League)
• Trey Murphy III, F (Pelicans)
• Keegan Murray, F (Kings)
• Payton Pritchard, G (Celtics)
• Naz Reid, C (Timberwolves)
• Jalen Williams, F (Thunder)

Jones is one of two Pelicans players to make the team, the other being Trey Murphy III.

Jones averaged ten points and 1.6 steals a night during his sophomore season in New Orleans, earning himself a 4-year $54 million extension, keeping him in the Big Easy for the foreseeable future.

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