Dominican national basketball team captain Jack Michaels didn’t want him on the team after he turned down playing for the qualifier, and now the Dominican Republic’s best basketball player won’t be donning the DR uniform after all. The Atlanta Hawks have announced that he needs to recover from a chest muscle injury. The DR qualified to represent the Americas along with Mexico, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Brazil and the United States in the World Cup.
The 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup will be hosted in Madrid this summer. The DR will play in Group C against Turkey, the United States, Finland, New Zealand and Ukraine. The first game will be played on 30 August 2014 against Ukraine, then on 31 August against New Zealand, and 2 September against Finland, and 3 September against the US, and 4 September against Turkey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_FIBA_Basketball_World_Cup#Qualified_teams
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_FIBA_Basketball_World_Cup#Group_A