With only days remaining until America's best basketball players descend on Las Vegas for the beginning of Team USA training camp, the squad's potential makeup is coming into clearer view. To be sure, there are some tough choices left to be made by head coach Mike Krzyzewski and his staff, but a rash of recent injuries has significantly narrowed the pool of available talent.
Dwyane Wade is planning to have knee surgery. Derrick Rose is still recovering from one of his own. Chris Bosh is resting his mysterious (but still really serious) abdominal injury. Andrew Bynum is being, well, Andrew Bynum. And Dwight Howard is apparently spending his summer accusing the Orlando Magic of blackmail.
All of that leaves just 16 players on USA Basketball's current list of finalists to fill 12 seats on the plane to London. Final rosters are due July 7, just two days after players report to camp.