Filipino large man Kai Sotto is about to skip Gilas Pilipinas’ marketing campaign within the 2023 Heyuan WUS International Basketball Tournament in China slated to kick off on Wednesday, group supervisor Butch Antonio confirmed.
Sotto stays unavailable as he’s nonetheless nursing a again damage he sustained whereas taking part in for the Orlando Magic within the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas.
Gilas Pilipinas, which is on the ultimate stretch of its preparations for the 2023 FIBA World Cup late this month, will first play Asian powerhouse Iran on August 4 on the Heyuan Sport Gymnasium earlier than taking up Senegal on August 4 on the Jiangmen En Ping Sport Gymnasium.
The Filipinos will then play Senegal anew on August 6 and Iran once more on August 7.
Without Sotto, Gilas is anticipated to depend on different large males in June Mar Fajardo and AJ Edu as each naturalized gamers Justin Brownlee and Ange Kouame may even miss the match.
Jordan Clarkson, in the meantime, is anticipated to reach straight in China on August 6, as per Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) president Al Panlilio.
—Bea Micaller/JMB, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
