Gilas Pilipinas participant Jordan Clarkson has arrived in Manila to hitch the Philippine nationwide males’s basketball crew in its 2023 FIBA World Cup marketing campaign later this month.
The Filipino-American NBA star, who performs for the Utah Jazz, landed on the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on early Tuesday morning.
Clarkson is tipped to swimsuit up for Gilas within the international competitors as a naturalized participant as he’s set to play his third stint for the Philippines, bolstering the nation throughout the 2018 Asian Games and fourth window of the World Cup Asian qualifiers a 12 months in the past.
The 31-year-old guard will be part of a Gilas squad that is coming off a fruitful run within the 2023 Heyuan WUS International Basketball Tournament in China, the place the Filipinos gained three of their 4 video games.
Gilas can be anticipated to tackle Mexico and Montenegro in a few pleasant video games right here previous to the World Cup.
The Philippines will kick off its World Cup marketing campaign on August 25 in opposition to world no. 23 Dominican Republic earlier than slugging it out in opposition to no. 41 Angola on August 27 and no. 10 Italy on August 29.
—Bea Micaller/JMB, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
