Marion named Team USA Alternate

[SJ2100]

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/olybb/news/story?id=3467851

Shawn Marion was named an alternate for the Olympic team along with Tyson Chandler, Kevin Durant, Chauncey Billups, Joe Johnson, and Mike Miller. Chandler is the team's #1 alternate, meaning Tyson will be attending training camp in Las Vegas and travelling to Macao and Shanghai for exhibition games. The article is unclear as to whether Marion will be attending camp and/or games in Asia.

[Lane1974]

Tyson as first alternate makes sense considering Howard's injury and the team is light on bigs anyway, whereas almost all the guards are so versatile they can all replace each other in the lineup, IE Kobe and LeBron could play probably 4 positions on the floor in international play