Aaron Gordon deserves spot on Team USA’s training camp roster

Aaron Gordon has taken plenty of slights this summer. The biggest one might be getting left off Team USA’s World Cup roster. He deserves his chance.

He has let the whole world know about this, feeling frustrated that his teammate Terrence Ross was passed over as a finalist for Sixth Man of the Year and then his coach Steve Clifford was passed over as a finalist for Coach of the Year. He became even more incredulous when neither he nor any of his teammates received a vote for the All-Defensive Teams.

That should give Aaron Gordon plenty of motivation to build off his best all-around season in his five-year career. He was a better playmaker, a better shot-maker and a better defender than he had…