USA Basketball on Thursday announced Team USA's 12-player roster for the coming FIBA Basketball World Cup and the list went in the following:

Anthony Edwards, Jalen Brunson, Tyrese Haliburton, Austin Reaves, Brandon Ingram, Jaren Jackson Jr., Mikal Bridges, Cameron Johnson, Paolo Banchero, Josh Hart, Bobby Portis and Walker Kessler.

"We are excited for the challenges ahead and look forward to the opportunity to compete at the 2023 FIBA Men's World Cup," Team USA's managing director Grant Hill said in a statement. "I am confident that working together, and under the leadership of our outstanding coaching staff, this team will proudly represent the United States this summer in Manila."

This year's World Cup will take place in three host countries, Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia from August 25 to September 10. USA are in Group C with Greece, New Zealand and Jordan. The four teams will compete with each other at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay, the Philippines.

USA finished the last edition of the tournament in China in 2019 as the seventh, their worst record in history. Many argued that the team's roster for this year's World Cup is worse that that for 2019, but this conclusion is unfair because back then, Jayson Tatum and Donovan Mitchell, the two best players of the team, just finished their sophomore seasons in the NBA. They were far from the superstars they have grown into today.

In fact, this Team USA have a balanced lineup that includes big guards like Haliburton, Edwards and Reaves, full-sized forwards in Ingram, Johnson and Banchero, as well as reliable defenders of Jackson Jr. and Kessler.

This team has more than enough firepower with Brunson, Ingram, Edwards, Bridges and Banchero all of who were the top two scorers of their teams in the NBA. Haliburton, who made his All-Star debut in the 2022-23 campaign, averaged 10.4 assists per game and played like an experienced floor general. Both Hart and Bridges are first class wing defenders. Jackson Jr. was the NBA Defensive Player of the Year last season. Both he and Portis are agile enough to guard perimeter players. Kessler could get 13.1 rebounds and 3.7 blocks per 36 minutes.

This year's World Cup is also a qualification tournament for the Paris Olympics in 2024. There are seven teams from the Americas – USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Dominican Republic – competing in the tournament. Two of them with the best results will secure automatic qualification for the Olympic Games next year.