Shanghai • Kemba Walker sees an irony in the notion that USA Basketball is vulnerable going into the World Cup.
The 12-man squad that makes its World Cup debut Sunday (6:30 a.m. MDT) isn’t overpowering on paper. There’s a couple second-round picks in Joe Harris and Khris Middleton, a guard in Derrick White who had zero scholarship offers out of high school, and many who made the team weren’t prominent — or in many cases, even included — on USA Basketball’s wish list of players when the roster-building process started last year.
Walker tried to say none of that matters.