Clippers' Eric Gordon added to USA Basketball minicamp

Clippers’ Eric Gordon added to USA Basketball minicamp

July 20, 2009 10:40 AM PT

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Clippers guard Eric Gordon will participate in USA Basketball’s minicamp it was announced today.

The camp will be used to help identify candidates to join United States teams that will play at the 2010 World Championships and 2012 Olympics.

Gordon and Golden State forward Anthony Randolph are the most recent additions to the tryouts in Las Vegas this week. There will be training sessions on Thursday and Friday, then an intrasquad scrimmage on Saturday.

The tryout roster stands at 23, including former UCLA teammates Kevin Love and Russell Westbrook, and Gordon’s new Clippers teammate, No. 1 draft pick Blake Griffin.

Gordon and Randolph were added after Portland’s Brandon Roy and LaMarcus Aldridge, Houston’s Trevor Ariza and Boston’s Glen Davis pulled out.

Gordon averaged 16.1 points a game as a rookie last season.

-- Mike Hiserman

Sports Now

Mike Hiserman

Mike Hiserman is former Sports editor of the Los Angeles Times. He wrote for the Long Beach Press Telegram and Orange County Register before joining The Times in 1982 and won an Associated Press Sports Editors award for investigative reporting on betting scams. Hiserman has been Sports editor of The Times’ San Fernando Valley and Orange County editions. He retired in November 2020.