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13 basketball players will represent Belize in next month's Cocaba Championship Tournament in Cancun Mexico. Tonight we are closer to choosing those 13 players because last night the Basketball Federation eliminated 10 players from the selection – leaving 15 players to compete for the 13 spots. This afternoon national team coach Kevin Siroki made it official.

Kevin Siroki, National Team Coach
"So the players are:

• Gene Myvett. He is a 6'4" guard. He is an energy guy, great hustler. He is one of those ex-factor guys.
• Charles Burgess, 6'1" point guard. He is really a hardnosed player and he can also score.
• Dakkin Braddick. 6' 9", center forward. He is very athletic and a big man. He will be able to run the floor for us and block a lot of shots.
• Stephen Williams. He is another guard, 6' 2". Great shooter from the outside but also he is a slasher and can get to the rim.
• Marlon Garnett, 6'4" guard and shooter. He is an outstanding shooter and he has a lot of experience. He played in the NBA for the Boston Celtics and also he has been playing overseas for many years. So he brings a lot of experience to our team and he's going to be looked to be one of our leaders on the team.
• Clinton Fuller, another 6'4" guard.
• Keith Acosta, 6'4" guard and everybody knows who Keith is. He is going to be one of our good players and he is a scorer and he is going to be a strong defender.
• Herbie Allen 5'11" point guard. Herbie is a great team player and he gets the ball to the right guys. If you need to knock down a jump shot, he will be able to do that for us. But he is a great team player and he is a good point guard.
• Greg Rudon, 6'2" guard and what Greg does a lot, his nickname is Chippy and he is a great shooter.
• Milton Palacio, 6'4" point guard. He is a leader and everybody knows him from 1998 but he is one of the main leaders. Again great NBA experience he is going to be the main leader of our team.
• Richard Troyer, 6'5" guard forward, very versatile player. He can shoot it from the outside and also he is strong enough to get inside and uses muscle and he is going to be able to go against some bigger guys and he can use his athleticism and size to get around the bigger guys.
• Alex Carcamo. 6'8" guard forward again. He brings a lot to the table as far as international experience. He just got the MVP down in Argentina professional league.
• Kyron Stokes. 6'4" guard. Kyron is a great shooter. He is going spot up and he is going to knock the shots down.
• Sonny Watson. He is a 6'10" guy that we are waiting for him to come in. Sonny is big and strong. He is going to be one of those guys who plays the center for us and he is going to be able to block shots and get rebounds for us so we can make fast breaks and go from there.
• Keenan Jourdon, 6'8 another guy that is a power forward center.

The guys who we didn't select, remember they are still on the national team and they just didn't get selected for this tournament."

Stephen Williams, Keith Acosta, and Greg Rudon are the only "Belize based" players that made the cut. That means that the majority of the local players who've been practicing for three months didn't make the cut and all the foreign based players who tried out – did.