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Nikola Jovic, Omer Yurtseven to bypass international play this summer, focus on Heat training

A year after Bam Adebayo shared in Olympic gold with Team USA at the Tokyo Olympics, there will be less foreign intrigue this time around for the Miami Heat. Neither second-year center Omer Yurtseven nor rookie forward Nikola Jovic will play with their national teams in coming weeks at World Cup qualifying games or EuroBasket, with their teams in the process of opening national training. While the Serbian national team has stated that the Heat denied Jovic permission to play in the international competitions, a source familiar with the situation said it was a mutual decision instead reached after consultations involving Serbia’s basketball federation, the Heat and Jovic. Yurtseven’s decision to bypass the summer work with Turkey’s national team was a personal decision, according to a basketball source, made with an eye toward preparing himself for the Heat’s late-September start of training camp and a potentially larger role this season. Jovic’s run during last month’s summer league was limited after he took a knee to the quad during the Heat’s opening game at the NBA Las Vegas Summer League.

 

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