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“Ice Trae” can be saved within the freezer for the summer season.
After Bradley Beal was knocked off the Crew USA Olympic basketball roster, a couple of NBA stars had a case to make it onto the squad as a substitute. Depend Trae Younger among the many ones who believed he deserved a shot on the staff.
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The Hawks guard is coming off a star-making efficiency within the 2021 NBA playoffs, with the Hawks pushing the Bucks to Sport 7 within the Jap Convention finals. That ought to give Younger no less than a search for the Olympic squad.
However Younger, apparently, wasn’t given the nod for the staff, as he tweeted the famed Isiah Thomas clip from final 12 months’s “The Final Dance” to voice his dissatisfaction.
Thomas was famously left off the 1992 “Dream Crew” basketball roster amid an obvious beef with celebrity Michael Jordan, together with his clarification famously meme’d throughout “The Final Dance.”
Younger appears to have gotten the denial from USA Basketball because it continues to work by means of a substitute for Beal within the coming days earlier than the beginning of the 2021 Olympics.
Crew USA has some points: The staff additionally sidelined Jerami Grant as a part of COVID protocol, and has a 1-2 report in exhibition video games main as much as a potential look in Tokyo.
Here is hoping that the entire squad will get it collectively earlier than then — with or with out Trae.
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