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Anthony Randolph announces retirement
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"Kyle Anderson has Chinese and Jamaican blood, so his position is slightly different," Djordjevic explained. "FIBA allowed the naturalization of one foreign basketball player per team. Therefore many coaches and federation presidents often call me and ask for my opinion on certain American players. What can I say to that? Anthony Randolph is not Slovenian. This is my point of view as a Serbian coach and former national team player. But on the other hand, the rules are clear. They must be accepted. I would not comment further."
Lorenzo Brown's addition to the Spanish roster just before the preparation for the EuroBasket 2022 once again sparked a discussion about the national teams. Currently, half of the EuroBasket participants are reinforced with foreigners that had no ties with the country before obtaining their citizenship. The impact of American players on national teams is also increasing. For instance, the last crowned European champions, Slovenia, were also boosted by the American Anthony Randolph. During the conversation with the FIBA secretary general Andreas Zagklis, BasketNews asked the executive if the recent examples, including several last-minute additions before EuroBasket 2022, don't go against the pure idea of national teams basketball and if it goes accordingly to the original idea of the rule.
Tennis legend Novak Djokovic and Eurobasket champion with Slovenia Anthony Randolph attended the game, while the Slovenian federation honored former players Bostjan Nachbar and Erazem Lorbek.
Real Madrid got the win in Game 1 of the Liga Endesa Finals against Barcelona Monday, though has lost Anthony Randolph with an ugly knee injury. Per Real’s medical report Tuesday, Randolph has suffered a complete rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee and will undergo surgery in the coming days.
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NBA stars are not the only basketball players wondering whether their teams will get a chance to compete for a championship this season. Around the world, other professional ballers are also on hiatus due to the deadly COVID-19, including former NBA forward Anthony Randolph, who currently plays for Spanish club Real Madrid Baloncesto. “It is a little devastating to know that your season can be postponed for a certain period of time or even canceled,” Randolph told The Undefeated from Madrid last week. “It’s kind of hard to deal with when you put in so much work and we’re positioning ourselves for seeding and the playoffs, getting ready for the real season playing for titles and championships. “But we understand at this time, the health and safety of all the players and our families is the most important thing.”
Randolph, who has averaged 10.7 points and 3.7 rebounds for Real Madrid this season, has been sidelined due to a thumb injury and missed the game in Italy. He declined to comment on Thompkins potentially getting the coronavirus in Italy or his current status, but did say he himself currently has no symptoms of COVID-19. “Most of my teammates and the trainers were all worried about going to Milan to play the game,” Randolph, 30, said. “But you know us as athletes, we kind of shrugged it off as like, ‘We will be all right. They will protect us.’ There were procedures and things put in place to protect us. We just figured [EuroLeague] would protect us. And when the guys came back, everybody did what they were supposed to do.
Randolph says he is also comfortable staying put because he believes Real Madrid’s medical staff provides its players with “amazing medical care.” “If I do get it, I will be taken care of,” Randolph said. “It won’t be a major problem.”
Anthony Randolph described the Real Madrid organization as being superior to even NBA clubs and characterized his run in Europe that led to him joining the “Blancos” in 2016 as the “best thing that could happen.” “I really don’t know what happened. It’s something you have to ask the general managers and the coaches,” Randolph said on his NBA career in an interview with El Mundo. “I don’t decide if I play more or less or the time or whether my contract is renewed.”
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Anthony Randolph: “The best thing that could happen to me was to come to Europe and Madrid. It is the best club in which I have worked. One of the best in the world, above even some [clubs] from the NBA.”
Anthony Randolph: "I don't think about the NBA anymore, I don't care."
European champions Slovenia took to Twitter and announced their roster for September’s WC Qualifiers, with 2018 EuroLeague and ACB MVP, Luka Doncic, not joining the team for the matches against Latvia (away) and Turkey (home). Klemen Prepelic of EuroLeague champions Real Madrid will not be available as well, whereas Anthony Randolph will play in both matches.
When last we saw Anthony Randolph in the NBA, he was scoring 19 points on nine shots in a meaningless April 2014 game for the Nuggets, against his old team, the Warriors. They were the most points Randolph had scored in two years, a fitting send-off for a player who had not fulfilled expectations and moved on to Europe. Randolph, though, has since drawn interest from multiple NBA teams, according to a source, and could make a return to the league next year. He had a great season in 2016-17, his first with Real Madrid, adding the kind of much-improved jump shot he never showed in his six NBA seasons, when he attempted just 83 total 3-pointers and made 20 of them (24.1 percent). The team granted him a contract extension after that.
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