World Select Team

The World Team breaks a timeout during the first half during the 2013 Nike Hoop Summit. (Photo by Sean Meagher/OregonLive.com)

A release from USA Basketball:

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 31, 2014) - The 10-member World Select Team, featuring four players who play for U.S. high schools, was announced today for the 2014 Nike Hoop Summit, the premier annual basketball game featuring many of the world's leading basketball players age 19 years old or younger. The 17th annual Nike Hoop Summit will take place at 4 p.m. (PDT) on Saturday, April 12 at the Moda Center, in Portland, Ore.

The annual game, which sees the World Select Team take on the USA Basketball Junior National Select Team, which is comprised of elite American high school seniors, has been staged on 16 previous occasions and has given an extraordinary number of talented players the chance to showcase their abilities. As of 2013, an incredible 151 Hoop Summit alumni have been drafted into the NBA.

The World Team, which will be seeking to record an unprecedented third straight victory in the series after beating the USA in 2012 (84-75) and in 2013 (112-98) in front of a crowd of 6,265 and a national television audience, has unveiled a strong roster for the 2014 Hoop Summit, including one player returning from last year's victorious squad.

Center Karl Towns, Jr. (St Joseph High School, N.J./Dominican Republic) returns for his second Nike Hoop Summit appearance, having scored seven points to go with four rebounds and four assists in the 2013 victory.

The World Team has named two other centers to its 2014 roster - Clint Capela (ES Chalon-sur-Saone/Switzerland) and Trey Lyles (Arsenal Technical H.S., Ind./Canada).

The team also features forwards - Damien Inglis (Chorale de Roanne Basket/France), James Metecan Birsen (Fenerbache Ulker/Turkey) and Nikola Jokic (Mega Vizura/Serbia).

The global squad is completed by guards Emmanuel Mudiay (Prime Prep Academy, Texas/Democratic Republic of Congo), Brandone Francis (Arlington Country Day School, Fla./Dominican Republic), Jamal Murray (Athlete Institute/Canada) and Gao Shang (Guangdong Southern Tigers/China).

The World Team at the 2014 Nike Hoop Summit will be led by fourth-year coach Roy Rana (Canada), who currently has a 2-1 record in the series and, in 2013, became the first coach in Hoop Summit history to lead his team to back-to-back victories. Rana is an eight-year veteran of Canadian national team basketball and was appointed head coach of Canada's Junior National Team in 2012, leading them to bronze medal in the FIBA Americas U18 Championship in Brazil and sixth place in last summer's U19 World Championship in Prague. Rana led Canada to bronze at the inaugural FIBA U17 World Championship in Germany in 2010, the latest in a long list of international honors, which also includes two bronze medals and three silvers with Canada at the Nike Global Challenge from 2006-12.

Rana again will be assisted by Serbia's Marin Sedlacek, who is making his 14th Hoop Summit appearance.

"I am once again honored and humbled to coach the top international prospects on the planet," Rana said. "Coaching the World Team in the Nike Hoop Summit holds a special place in my coaching life because of its powerful life changing impact on those that are privileged enough to be part of the most important global youth basketball event."