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New Orleans Pelicans star Anthony Davis will not play for Team USA this summer, does this open a door for Utah Jazz bigman Derrick Favors?

The New Orleans Pelicans have shut down bigman Anthony Davis for the rest of the season. He will have off-season surgery which will, obviously, prevent him from playing with Team USA in the 2016 Rio Olympics. ESPN elaborates:

Davis will undergo surgery to fix a torn labrum in his left shoulder that he says should keep him on the shelf for four to five months and out of the 2016 Rio Olympics.

But the 23-year-old All-Star said he's been fighting through the injury since his rookie season.