Luka Doncic and eleven more. The Slovenian team has already announced the twelve players who will defend their country’s honor in the pre-Olympic tournament in Kaunas, the capital of Lithuania. Very close to home, the Dallas Mavericks star and his teammates start a tournament in which only one team can win a ticket for Tokyo 2020.
Slovenia will have the outdoors on its squad Aleksej Nikolić, Luka Rupnik, Jaka Blažič, Klemen Prepelič and Zoran Dragić; the interiors Gregor Hrovat, Vlatko Čančar, Edo Murić and Jakob Čebašek; and the pivots Mike Tobey and Ziga Dimec to accompany Doncic.
Slovenian national team The competition starts against Angola on Wednesday and on Thursday they will face Poland, while the Lithuanian host will debut tomorrow Tuesday against Venezuela and then face South Korea on Thursday.
The one in Kaunas is one of the four pre-Olympic tournaments that FIBA has arranged to decide the last four places available for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Slovenia gave the great surprise of Eurobasket 2017 by proclaiming itself champion against all odds thanks to the great game of its foreign duo, starring Doncic and a Goran Dragic who will be the great absentee of this pre-Olympic.