LA Clippers shooting guard J.J. Redick knows it was never going to be a given that he’d make Team USA for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Like the rest of us, he knows that his off-ball movement and deadly catch-and-shoot threat makes him an ideal complimentary role player to the isolation star power of the team, but he knows he always had an outside chance of actually making the squad.
On Bill Simmons’ “Any Given Wednesday” show, Redick said that he was on the “short long list” and that he was around the 40th to 45th guy who could make the team.