Anderson Varejao is healthy and recovered from a broken wrist that cost him most of last season.

Varejao is eager to join fellow NBA players Leandro Barbosa and Tiago Splitter on the Brazilian national team.

“The players are still young, but we have experience,” Anderson said. “This is very important. It's great to have athletes playing in the NBA and in Europe, for example.”

Varejao has matched up against many of the elite players expected to compete at the London games.

“This helps break the ice, since they will have several NBA players and we have an idea of how they play,” Anderson said.