Baskonia players won't join their national teams for FIBA World Cup qualifiers
Baskonia has joined Olympiacos on the list of EuroLeague teams that will not participate in the upcoming FIBA World Cup qualifiers.
Latvia’s Janis Timma announced the news himself on Instagram that he won’t play for Latvia in the qualifiers. The same goes too for his teammates.
A post shared by Jānis Timma (@janistimma6) on Nov 13, 2017 at 4:30am PST
Translated into English:
We as EuroLeague players are in a situation in which we should never be. We have to choose between an employer which keeps our family and our country. This situation is not our responsibility but we have to make a decision about that. In the club we discussed this situation and considered the bad start of the season, the new head coach, we made a joint decision not to join our National Teams in the first stage of the Qualifiers”.
Marcelinho Huertas (Brazil), Jayson Granger (Uruguay), Johannes Voigtmann (Germany), Vincent Poirier (France), Ilimane Diop (Spain) and Tornike Shengelia (Georgia) won’t join their respective national sides.