The Antigua and Barbuda Basketball Association (ABBA) has officially lifted the curtain on its training roster, which will prepare the Caribbean nation for next month’s FIBA AmeriCup 2029 CBC Pre-Qualifiers set to take place in Georgetown, Guyana.
The five-day tournament, scheduled to run from July 8 to 12, will split 10 competing Caribbean nations into two seeded groups for the opening round of competition. Antigua and Barbuda have been drawn into Group A, where they will go head-to-head with tournament hosts Guyana, as well as fellow regional sides Dominica, Turks and Caicos, and Bermuda. Group B, by contrast, brings together five other contenders: Barbados, Haiti, Grenada, the Cayman Islands, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
The opening pre-qualifier stage will follow a standard round-robin format, meaning every team will play one match against each other opponent within their group. When all group stage matches conclude, only the first-place team from each group will earn the right to progress to the next phase of FIBA AmeriCup 2029 pre-qualification, which is currently slated to kick off in November 2026.
ABBA’s selected training squad brings together a diverse mix of domestic league talent and overseas-based players plying their trade at high school, collegiate, and professional levels across the United States and Europe. The full roster includes: Adonis Humphreys (EZ Fit Flyers), Kareem Edwards (Cuties Ovals Ojays), Cohen Desouza (JSC Red Hawks), Steven Matthew (Lava Elite Stingerz), Javonte Daley (EZ Fit Flyers), Lopez Adams (JSC Red Hawks), T-Shawn Lewis (Da Project), Jaleyle Joseph (Cuties Ovals Ojays), Takeem Martin (All Saints Slam), Danny Perez (Daryll Matthew Ottos), Daniel Perez (EZ Fit Flyers), Tajahron Davis (Cuties Ovals Ojays), Craig Massiah Jr. (AB7 Academy High School, USA), Sadiq Phillip (Da Project), Daleonte Phillip (Da Project), Devonte Carter (Nova Southeastern University, USA), Raheem Sawyer (Navigators), Alexis Jackson (Lava Elite Stingerz), Jabari Williams (Castill de Gorraiz Valle de Egues, Spain), Jaden Andrew (Emory & Henley College, USA), Jamine Charles (Lava Smoke Elite Stingerz), Seth Joseph (Lava Smoke Elite Stingerz), Xavier Spencer (Lindenwood University, USA), Preston Merrick (Harvard University, USA), Keon Armstrong (USA), Myles Miller (Archbishop Molloy High School, USA), and Shamoi Tonge (USA).
Organized on-court preparation for the squad will get underway on Monday, June 8, giving players just under a full month to build chemistry and fine-tune their game plans ahead of the tournament opener in Guyana.