Thursday, September 17th, 2009 at 2:26 pm  |  16 responses

Pacers’ Hibbert could play for Jamaica

Jamaica’s national basketball team, the Caribbean champions, could very soon get a major boost by the addition of a potential future star in the National Basketball Association (NBA).  According to Ajani Williams, president of the Jamaica Basketball Association (JBA), Roy Hibbert, the 23-year-old starting centre for the Indiana Pacers basketball franchise, has Jamaican lineage and could very soon don the national colours.

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  • http://www.bulls.com Enigmatic

    First?

  • http://www.bulls.com Enigmatic

    LOL @ “potential future star”

  • Josh D

    They should get Usain Bolt to play for Jamaica as a guest,i’d love to c what he could do on the court given a chance to practice

  • http://www.in-n-outnba.blogspot.com Lucas

    Good for him!The Carribean countries are really starting to become the next basketball hot-bed along with Canada.

  • http://slamonline BossTerry

    He be Jammin’.

  • http://slamonline.com/ niQ

    Is he REALLY considered a “major boost?”

  • Fat Lever

    Must REALLY be a slow news day.

  • http://www.another48minutes.blogspot.com Gerard Himself

    someone call Malik Yoba! Cool Runnings 2 – return of the hungry hungry Hibbert.

  • heartlandG

    Hibert averaged 20 pts 10 boards…On my live franchise-he was a beast-Dont see fim as a force in the League tho..

  • LeoneL

    I knew Ajani’s name was familiar to me. Turns out, he played over here in the Philippines for the Alaska Aces.

  • Teddy-the-Bera

    Co-sign Josh D. Put Usain in a pair sneakers and let’s see what he can do!

  • http://slamonline BossTerry

    In other news, Blazers signed Juwan Howard… Fair to say they are top 3 in the west???

  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre

    Josh D Posted: Sep.17 at 2:58 pm
    They should get Usain Bolt to play for Jamaica as a guest,i’d love to c what he could do on the court given a chance to practice
    _
    What could he do? 8.65 sec offense?

  • http://hibachi20.blogspot.com Blinguo

    Who fills out the rest of the team?
    3 Marley relatives and Doug E Doug?
    Doug E. Doug FTW though.

  • http://staticseth.blogspot.com/ Seth

    I was in Jamaica last week on vacation and didn’t see a single basketball hoop or court anywhere. I can’t imagine their team is that great. They sure do play a lot of soccer down there, though.

  • http://slamonline BossTerry

    Brian Grant woild have given his left nut to play for Jamaica…

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