Italian Basketball Federation official Salvatore Trainotti hopes that Italy\u2019s National Team will have Paolo Banchero available for the upcoming Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Belgrade.<\/p>\n
The five-star prospect is getting the Italian passport and the hope of FIP is that FIBA will not consider him as \u201cnaturalized\u201d players allowing Italbasket to use him and also Donte DiVincenzo (who is also close to getting the Italian passport) or Jeff Brooks or Christian Burns.<\/p>\n
“About Mannion it is not the right moment to analyze the situation\u201d Trainotti told Tuttosport.<\/p>\n
Mannion, who has already debuted with Italy, is playing his freshman year in NCAA and is expected to declare for the NBA draft where he may be selected in the first round. And the NBA draft is scheduled during the Olympic Qualifying Tournament.<\/p>\n
“We are getting Paolo Banchero\u2019s passport and we hope he won\u2019t be considered by FIBA as naturalized player (FIBA allows one naturalized player to be on the roster of a national team per game). He had pressure to play for USA, but don\u2019t be shocked if you will watch him play for Italy at OQT\u201d Trainotti added. \u201cDiVincenzo\u2019s passport? We are waiting for technical times\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Italy is also close to giving a passport to Bucks guard Donte DiVincenzo. The hope of Italy is that FIBA will not consider Banchero as naturalized player<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[95,131,103],"tags":[6556,11253,11532],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-136434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school","category-italbasket","category-olympic-games","tag-italbasket-en","tag-olympic-qualifying-tournament","tag-paolo-banchero"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136434"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=136434"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=136434"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=136434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}