When you are asked to spend seven weeks on someone else s schedule, it s challenging and especially in these strange COVID pandemic times, Powell said after the team s first practice Wednesday. But when that reason is to compete for your country, it makes the decision a little bit easier. For the guys that are here, we are all on the same page in terms of we know what we are giving up . . . The sacrifice is secondary to the fact that this is an opportunity to represent our country and compete for something that we all hold very near and dear to our hearts. We know that we can make our families and our country proud.
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Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is still rehabbing his right foot injury, which is why he made the decision not to play for Team Canada this summer.