Three major developments for the Monumental Sports franchises during this past weekend: 1) Yi Jianlian has become the new face for the Chinese national team which will compete in the 2010 FIBA World Championship to be held Aug. 28-Spet. 12 in Turkey. Yi was featured on a giant cartoon poster promoting the World Basketball Festival [...]

Highly regarded as the most athletic young big in the league, Wizards’ center JaVale McGee is trying to prove that he deserves to be on Team USA’s roster. CSNWashington.com’s Chris Miller reports from Team USA’s training camp in New York.

New Jersey Nets center Brook Lopez, who is recovering from a bout with mononucleosis, withdrew from consideration for the 2010 USA Basketball World Championship Team, USA Basketball announced today. USA Basketball also announced that Washington Wizards’ center JaVale McGee has been added to the USA Basketball Men’s National Team roster and will participate in the [...]

It was announced on Wednesday that JaVale McGee was one of the four players cut from the Team USA roster. “The entire staff has been very supportive and very encouraging to him because he’s very raw, he’s very young. He’s still a babe in terms of the game is concerned, and he has a real [...]

UPDATE: Media day just finished up. We will have quotes coming later. I caught a lot of Antawn, Caron, Antonio, Darius, JaVale, Dominic, Nick, Pech, Dray. Here is a photo gallery from today. Also here are a few things that caught my attention at media day. I know it’s the first day but the entire [...]