Carlos Boozer Carlos Boozer Jr. is one of 16 of the country's top basketball players in Miami this week trying to be among the 12 who will represent the U.S. junior national team in a major tournament in Brazil.
Boozer, a 1999 graduate of Juneau-Douglas High School and the current starting center-forward at Duke University, is the only Alaskan at the training camp, which opened Tuesday night and concludes on Sunday.
If Boozer survives the final cut later this week, he will represent Team USA at the COPABA (Confederation of Pan American Basketball Associations) World Championship for Young Men Qualifying Tournament in Ribeirao Preto, Brazil, July 19-23. In late May, Boozer was one of 26 players, all born after Jan. 1, 1980, to go through the first round of cuts at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.
