With less than a week until the FIBA Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament begins, there is an addition to an international roster that involves another current Phoenix Suns player.
Yuta Watanabe will be representing his home country of Japan in the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup and he is the only active member of the Suns to compete in that tournament. Both Deandre Ayton and Eric Gordon will be playing for the Bahamas, but it is in the FIBA Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament, which commences on August 12 in five different international locations.
40 total teams will compete with 8 teams in the Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournaments, with two occurring in Europe, one in Africa, one in Asia, and one in the Americas (which is where the Bahamas is slated to compete).