Five Celtics Make Preliminary Roster For Team USA In 2020 Summer Olympics
BOSTON (CBS) -- The Boston Celtics are well-represented on the preliminary roster for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. All five of Boston's best players made the cut.
Celtics Kemba Walker, Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Gordon Hayward and Marcus Smart are all on the preliminary 44-man roster for the Tokyo Olympics, which was announced by USA Basketball on Monday morning. The entire list features essentially every star player in the NBA, including LeBron James, Kawhi Leonard, James Harden and Stephen Curry.
It's a pretty amazing list of talent that will battle for a spot on the 12-man roster, which will be selected and announced in June.
The Celtics have recently made up a chunk of Team USA, as Brown, Smart, Tatum and Walker were all on the Team USA roster for the 2019 FIBA World Cup.
