When the U.S. men’s basketball team announced on Wednesday morning that the Los Angeles Clippers’ Kawhi Leonard would be leaving the team to focus on the upcoming NBA season, Jaylen Brown seemed like a possible replacement. The Boston Celtics guard plays a similar position to Leonard, and is emerging from a season in which he made his third All-Star team, helped lead his team to an NBA championship, and was named Finals MVP.
Instead, Team USA chose Brown’s teammate, Derrick White, who will join fellow Celtics player Jason Tatum and Jrue Holiday to round out the 12-man roster heading into the Paris Olympics at the end of the month.
