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Jordan Clarkson finally bound for Manila

Published Aug 7, 2023 07:07 am

At A Glance

  • The national team's most potent weapon in NBA star Jordan Clarkson is already heading for Manila on Monday, Aug. 7, and is set to arrive in the country the morning after to join the final stretch of Gilas' preparations for the World Cup.

Gilas Pilipinas is finally getting its big gun ready for the 2023 FIBA World Cup.

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Jordan Clarkson is set to arrive in the country on Tuesday morning (FIBA photo)

 

The national team's most potent weapon in NBA star Jordan Clarkson is already heading for Manila on Monday, Aug. 7, and is set to arrive in the country the morning after to join the final stretch of Gilas' preparations for the World Cup.

The Utah Jazz star initially committed to join the Gilas training camp six weeks prior to the start of the global showpiece but was pushed back due to some family matters along with his negotiations for a contract extension with his NBA team.

Still, a legitimate NBA talent, Clarkson is expected to easily get accustomed to the system of Gilas head coach Chot Reyes and form chemistry with the rest of his teammates in the remaining three weeks of preparation before the Nationals play their first game against a Karl-Anthony Towns-led Dominican Republic on Aug. 25.

Clarkson will be formally joining Gilas' practice on Wednesday, Aug. 9, when the rest of the team also arrives from China where it participated in a pocket tournament in Guangdong.

The 31-year-old former NBA Sixth Man of the Year was initially set to join Gilas in its last couple of days in China but the plan was also scrapped due to visa constraints.

Despite the delays, Reyes had earlier expressed his confidence that the NBA guard is coming in great shape and there will be little adjustments needed to get Clarkson into the groove of things with Gilas.

"He has assured me that he’s in pretty good shape. He’s been working out, he’s working on his skills so I think the number one thing that I can expect is that he’s in (basketball) shape,” said Reyes in an interview with Power & Play with Kom Noli Eala on Saturday, Aug. 5.

“We’ve been talking and we’re in constant communication. We’re talking about our offense, our concepts, our plans, and what his role is going to be," he added.

Clarkson, who was chosen from the pool of Gilas' naturalized players that also included Justin Brownlee and Ange Kouame, is actually no stranger to Reyes and most of the other pool members, having already played with most of them during the fourth window of the Asian qualifiers last year.

There, the eight-year NBA guard averaged 25 points, 6.5 assists and 5.5 rebounds against Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.

With Clarkson's return, all of the remaining 16 members of the pool are finally accounted for with only Scottie Thompson and Kai Sotto on the sidelines due to injuries.

Thompson is still recovering from a fracture on his shooting hand which he sustained during Gilas' European training camp.

Sotto, on the other hand, has been in the country following the end of his NBA Summer League stint but has yet to formally join practice due to a nagging back injury. 

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