Eight former Kentucky players, including Rajon Rondo, John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins will play in an exhibition game against the Dominican Republic.

The Dominican Republic is coached by John Calipari and includes Francisco Garcia.

Andrew Bogut will serve as an assistant coach for the Australian national team when they meet New Zealand in an Olympic qualifying series.

Bogut hoped to play in the series, but Basketball Australia was unable to insure his NBA contract.

Head coach Brett Brown joked Thursday "he'll be my richest assistant coach. He's fantastic about wanting to play, but with injury and insurance issues with the NBA lockout, he'll play his role from the bench next to me." 

Dirk Nowitzki will try to help his country reach the Olympics again.

The German Basketball Federation announced on Friday that both he and fellow NBA big man Chris Kaman will play for the national team at the EuroBasket in Lithuania.

Should Germany reach the Final, they will book a place in the London Games.

If they come in third, fourth, fifth or sixth, the German national team will be invited to the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament.

"The break was very short, but I would like to help the German team be successful at the EuroBasket,” Nowitzki said to basketball-bund.de.

"I will try now to do everything to get top fitness and am looking forward to the time with my teammates."

With training camp less than a year away and no guarantee of games before then, Jerry Colangelo is ready to start finding out who wants to play on the 2012 U.S. Olympic team.

USA Basketball's chairman said he plans to start contacting candidates "soon, within the next month" to gauge their interest in going to London.

"Just to make contact with all of the people on our list, give them a whole picture of what is coming," Colangelo told The Associated Press in a phone interview. "Basically to get a read from them as to what their interests and intentions are in advance."

Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and the rest of the 2008 gold medalists all committed to returning to the program through 2012, but Colangelo realizes that "circumstances have changed for some of the players who were on the Olympic team."

Dwyane Wade is revisiting the site of his 2008 Olympic triumph later this summer. Whether he'll be going with the U.S. to the London Games remains unclear.

Taking a break from hosting a basketball camp for hundreds of children, Wade said Wednesday his decision on next year's Olympics "depends on a lot of things" and that he was not leaning one way or another yet.

Tiago Splitter will have his insurance paid by the Brazilian Basketball Confederation in order to participate in Olympic qualifying this summer in Argentina.

Brazilian teammates Anderson Varejao and Leandro Barbosa will be unavailable due to injury.