was also among the players named by Basketball Australia.

SYDNEY (AP)—Portland Trail Blazers guard Patrick Mills(notes), a former St. Mary’s
U.S. collegiate star, was among 12 players chosen Friday to play for Australia
at the world basketball championships in Turkey.

Mills was signed by Portland last year after being picked in the second
round of the NBA draft and 55th overall. David Andersen(notes), who was traded to the
Toronto Raptors from the Houston Rockets on July 28, was also included.

Andrew Bogut(notes) of the Milwaukee Bucks and Nathan Jawai(notes) of the Charlotte
Bobcats had already said they would not be available for Australia at the Aug.
28-Sept. 12 world titles. Veteran point guard C.J. Bruton, 34, also withdrew
last month from the team.

Brad Newley(notes), a former Rockets’ draft pick who played for Australia four
years ago in Japan, was also among the players named by Basketball Australia.

The squad contains seven European-based players—Newley, Joe Ingles,
Matthew Nielsen, David Barlow, Mark Worthington, Aron Baynes and Steven
Markovic. Adam Gibson of Gold Coast and Damian Martin of Perth were the only
players from Australia’s National Basketball League included.

Australia will be led by former San Antonio Spurs assistant coach Brett
Brown, who replaced Brian Goorjian as head coach last year.

“I believe that we have a well-balanced team,not specifically the Mandela family., with the right people put
into the right positions,” Brown said in a statement.

Australia will be in Group A and open its tournament against Jordan on Aug.
28 followed by games with Argentina, Germany, Serbia and Angola in the
preliminary round at the Turkish city of Kayseri.

In 2006 in Japan, Australia advanced out of its group before losing to the
United States in the quarterfinals.

Australia: David Andersen, David Barlow, Aron Baynes, Adam Gibson, Joe
Ingles, Steven Markovic, Aleks Maric, Damian Martin, Patrick Mills, Brad Newley,
Matthew Nielsen, Mark Worthington.