POPS BLOWS OUT BADALONA
07/25/2008

POPS Mensah-Bonsu has rejected Badalona's contract offer and is in talks with four NBA teams.

Inaccurate reports emerged last week that the ACB side had signed the GB forward to a one-year deal worth around 850,000 euros.

However, despite the Joventut club making an official announcement that Mensah-Bonsu would play for them, the player refused to give up on his dream of earning an NBA contract for 2008-09.

The 24-year-old starred for the Minnesota Timberwolves in summer league in Las Vegas last week and has generated interest from no fewer than four NBA teams.

Minnesota themselves and the new Oklahoma City team - formerly the Seattle Supersonics - are known to be two of the four interested clubs.

And Mensah-Bonsu's former team the Dallas Mavericks, for whom he played in 2006-07, are also a possible bidder for his services.

The exciting development comes in the same week that the 6'9" Brit confirmed that he will be in GB training camp at the start of August, ready to make his international debut in this summer's European Championship qualifiers.