By Evangelos Papadimitriou / info@eurohoops.net
The Latvian forward and his teammates at Baskonia had a talk and decided that they won’t play for their National Teams in November.
Marcelinho Huertas (Brazil), Jayson Granger (Uruguay), Johannes Voigtmann (Germany), Vincent Poirier (France), Ilimane Diop (Spain) and Tornike Shengelia (Georgia) won’t join their National Teams.
“We as EuroLeague players are in a situation in which we should never be. We have to choose between an employer which keeps our family and our country. This situation is not our responsibility but we have to make a decision about that. In the club we discussed this situation and considered the bad start of the season, the new head coach, we made a joint decision not to join our National Teams in the first stage of the Qualifiers”.