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Team USA’s cuts went as anticipated Wednesday.

Sources had told FanHouse on Tuesday that Sacramento guard Tyreke Evans, Memphis guard O.J. Mayo and Charlotte forward Gerald Wallace were expected to be cut. They all got the axe on Wednesday in addition to Washington center JaVale McGee. FanHouse had reported McGee was a fourth player likely worried about making it.

After a training camp last week in Las Vegas that included 19 players, the roster was trimmed to 15 for an Aug. 10-16 training camp in New York. The team must be down to 12 by Aug. 26, two days before the start of the World Championship in Turkey, which runs Aug. 28-Sept. 12.

“Our group of 19 did a terrific job,” said USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo, who spent Monday and Tuesday calling all of the players who made it as well as those cut. “We really did have some difficult decisions. … (The players not selected), each and every one handled that with dignity and class.”

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