USA Basketball named its 12-man roster for Chile vs USA, setting the group that will open the August 2026 World Cup qualifying window at Chile on Aug. 27. Terry Stotts will coach the team in his first USA Basketball assignment, with the roster built for two games that could shape the USA’s path through Group E.
Miami, Santiago and Washington, D.C.
The August 2026 USA Men’s World Cup Qualifying Window 4 Team includes Jaron Blossomgame, Pedro Bradshaw, Garrison Brooks, Darius Brown, Kevon Harris, Mike James, DeJon Jarreau, Dillon Jones, James Nunnally, Orlando Robinson, Tyler Smith and Cole Swider. USA Basketball will hold training camp Aug. 20-24 in Miami before traveling to Santiago for a 7:10 ET game on Aug. 27, then to Washington, D.C., for a 7:00 ET game against Colombia on Aug. 31.
Bradshaw, Harris, James and Robinson competed in the 2027 FIBA Men’s World Cup Qualifying Window 3 in July, when the USA went 2-0 in road matchups against Dominican Republic and Mexico. Brooks played in Window 1, Nunnally suited up in 2021 FIBA Men’s AmeriCup Qualifying, Swider returned after the 2018 Nike Hoop Summit, and Smith came through the 2022 USA Men’s Junior National Team October minicamp.
Group E and Window 4
The roster also shows how USA Basketball is balancing continuity with first-time opportunities. Blossomgame, Brown, Jarreau and Jones will compete for USA Basketball for the first time, while Clay Moser and Marlon Garnett are no longer the only staff figures carrying over from earlier windows because Jonathan Yim will make his USA Basketball debut as a scout.
The complication is the table, not the schedule. After the first round of qualifying, the USA stood atop Group A with a 5-1 record, then regrouped for windows 4-6 and sat second in Group E behind Brazil and ahead of Dominican Republic, Mexico, Colombia and Chile. At the end of the six-game stretch from windows 4-6, the top three teams in Group E and the best fourth-place finisher in Group E or F will reach the 2027 FIBA Men’s World Cup in Doha, Qatar.
Road to Doha, Qatar
The immediate task is simple enough: use the Miami camp to sort out roles before the trip to Santiago, then turn the Chicago-to-Santiago? No, the real test is how Stotts uses a roster with first-timers, returning players and a short runway between games. Fans can watch Window 4 on Courtside 1891, available on DAZN, or on HBO Max, while Window 5 is scheduled for November and Window 6 is set for February.
What happens next is already fixed on the calendar. The USA opens against Chile in Santiago on Aug. 27, then meets Colombia on Aug. 31, and those two games will tell whether the 12-man group can keep pace in a qualification race that still runs through March 2027.
