Orlando Magic followers could have the prospect to look at the Wagner brothers play basketball once more earlier than the 2022-23 NBA begins in October.
Franz and Moe Wagner have been named to the German males’s nationwide basketball workforce’s 16-player preliminary roster for the FIBA EuroBasket 2022 event, the group introduced.
Dennis Schröder and Daniel Theis have been different NBA gamers named to the roster.
Germany is co-hosting EuroBasket 2022 group-stage video games (Sept. 1-8) with Czech Republic, Georgia and Italy, with the knockout-stage video games being performed in Germany from Sept. 10-18.
The Magic’s coaching camp begins on Sept. 27.
Germany may also play a pair of World Cup qualifying video games in opposition to Sweden (Aug. 25) and Slovenia (Aug. 28) earlier than EuroBasket. While it isn’t official, Franz and Moe might play in these video games.
For Moe, EuroBasket can be a return to the national-team stage after averaging 11 factors and a pair of.8 rebounds for Germany in final yr’s Olympics.
It’ll be Franz’s debut on the senior nationwide workforce after taking part in for Germany’s youth groups, most not too long ago averaging 13 factors and 4.8 rebounds within the 2019 FIBA U18 European Championship.
Franz, the No. 8 choose in final yr’s draft, is coming off a stellar rookie season with the Magic. He averaged 15.2 factors, 4.5 rebounds and a pair of.9 assists in 30.7 minutes (79 begins in 79 appearances), completed fourth in the voting for Rookie of the Year that was awarded to Toronto Raptors ahead Scottie Barnes and was named to the All-Rookie first workforce.
Germany will play of their Group B opener on Sept. 1, with group-stage video games in opposition to Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sept. 3), Lithuania (Sept. 4), Slovenia (Sept. 6) and Hungary (Sept. 7).
Germany received their final medal at EuroBasket in 2005 once they have been runners-up. Their lone title got here in 1993.
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