Celtics guard Payton Pritchard will join the USA Select Team this summer, per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
The USA Select Team is a group of young American players that will help Team USA practice for the upcoming FIBA World Cup. Pritchard and his Select Team teammates will travel to Las Vegas with Team USA, practice with, and scrimmage against them.
They will be the first people called up to replace a member of Team USA in the event of an injury. Because of such a possibility, these players are not chosen by accident.