GBR/USA - Brits may add NBA’s Mullens to Olympic squad
CHARLOTTE (Olympics) - Great Britain aren’t short of frontcourt players for the Olympics but that probably won’t stop them from giving strong consideration to adding Charlotte Bobcats center Byron Mullens to the squad. The 23-year-old Mullens, a long-armed, 2.13m pivot who is averaging 20.8 minutes per game for Paul Silas' team, announced to ...
CHARLOTTE (Olympics) - Great Britain aren’t short of frontcourt players for the Olympics but that probably won’t stop them from giving strong consideration to adding Charlotte Bobcats center Byron Mullens to the squad.
The 23-year-old Mullens, a long-armed, 2.13m pivot who is averaging 20.8 minutes per game for Paul Silas' team, announced to the world with a tweet earlier this month: "Yessir. I will be in London this summer! 2012 Olympics."
In that same tweet, the Columbus, Ohio-born Mullens attached a photo of his new British passport that he was able to secure since his mother hails from Middlesex.
At last year’s EuroBasket, Great Britain had big men Robert Archibald (2.11m), Joel Freeland, Dan Clark and Eric Boateng (all 2.08) and their extremely athletic Pops Mensah-Bonsu (2.06), the leading rebounder in qualifying, missed the tournament while recuperating from a shoulder operation.
When asked by a follower on Twitter when he would leave, Mullens replied probably "at the end of June for a training camp."
Mullens only spent one year at Ohio State before declaring for the NBA Draft.
He played in 13 games in each of his first two seasons with Oklahoma City and was traded to the struggling Bobcats.
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