The Philippines summoned NBA star Jordan Clarkson for the 2023 Fiba World Cup qualifier

While the American professional basketball tournament (NBA) is at Offseason, many other tournaments at the national level have been preparing to take place.

If in Europe has a tournament every 4 years - EuroBaket 2022 - then in Asia, many countries are competing in the 2023 Fiba World Cup qualifiers, looking for the highest -class basketball tournament after Olympic.

In Southeast Asia, the only representative to participate in the current round is the Philippines and to increase the competitiveness, the country has summoned one of the impressive scoring stars in NBA for competition.

The upcoming Aiba World Cup qualifying series in Asia will take place at the end of August. Clarkson's opponent and his teammates will be Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.

Besides the star from NBA, the Philippines team also summoned a number of prominent names playing in B.League (Japan) including Dwight Ramos, Kiefer Ravena, Thirdy Ravena and Bobby Ray Parks.

Temporarily closed the preliminary list announced by SBP as 3 young talents of Filipino basketball including Carl Tamayo, Kevin Quiambao and especially LeBron Lopez.

Despite the service of Jordan Clarkson, the highest -class player in the Philippine shirt at the present time, the team is still shy at the upcoming World Cup qualifier due to the no strongest squad.

The reason is that the Philippine team will be absent from many quality internal soldiers currently attending the Philippine Cup 2022, the tournament with the presence of 100% of the inner soldiers (without foreign soldiers or "Phi Kieu" players).

This increased the responsibility of the burden on the shoulders of Jordan Clarkson, who was expected to bring explosive performances.

Jordan Clarkson is the highest -class player in the Philippine team shirt at the moment. He was in a typical All-Rookie in NBA before pocketing the Sixth Man of the Year title in 2021.

The last time Utah Jazz's score of the Philippine national team was 2018 at ASIAD, the result of great efforts from the parties to solve legal problems.

Not disappointing fans, Clarkson scored an average of 26.0 points with 5.5 assists and 5.0 rebounds in 4 matches, bringing Southeast Asia to 5 finals. This is the best rank of the Philippines at an ASIAD within 16 years.

That year when the tournament closed, Jordan shared that he would definitely return to the Philippines in the future: "I and my teammates and training teams have built a great cohesion. ”.

“There will be any more times, I will definitely return and play for the team. I was very excited to continue representing the Philippines, "the defender was still playing for Cleveland Cavaliers.

The third round of the Fiba World Cup 2023 - Asia with the participation of Jordan Clarkson will start from August 25.