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Sports Illustrated's Early Team USA 2020 Predictions

The 2016 Olympic Games in Rio may have just ended, but that doesn’t mean we can’t look forward to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. And, as is usually the case with the Summer Olympics, the USA men’s basketball team will be one of the more heavily favored teams to take home the gold medal for the fourth straight time in 2020.

But who will represent Team USA in Japan? Ben Golliver of Sports Illustrated gave his early predictions, looking at players who don’t have any Olympic experience that could end up in Tokyo in 2020, and a familiar face made the list.

Jabari Parker, who at that time will be 25, cracked Golliver’s Top Ten of likely players who could be on that team. Here’s what he had to say about Jabari:

Jabari earned some run against the national team this summer as he was a part of the USA Basketball Men’s Select Team that trained with the eventual Olympic gold medalists. So, while Parker hasn't made the top USA men's team just yet, he's certainly on the right track to finding himself representing the United States in Tokyo in only four short years.