Parker, Nunn, Okafor finalists for the FIBA U17 national team

Jabari Parker, Kendrick Nunn and Jahlil Okafor were among the 14 finalists named to the 2012 USA men's U17 World Championship Team Sunday.The list was cut down from 28 players, and will be cut down againto a finalized12-man rosterearly next week.The players have trained and worked out all week at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., and willbe thereJune 17through June 20 for training camp.Parker, the No. 1 recruit in the 2013 class, was the MVP of the 2011 FIBA Americas Championship a year ago with the U16 team. That team went a perfect 5-0 in the tournament, defeating Argentina 104-64 in the championship game.Parker finished the tournament with averages of 15.4 points and 6.4 rebounds per game. He scored 27 points against Brazil in the preliminary round, a USA U16 record.Parker also gave an update on his highly anticipated recruitment. He told SNY's Adam Zagoria he will make a decision on which college to attend in November, prior to his senior season at Simeon.He has a current list of 14 schools: BYU, Connecticut, DePaul, Duke, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisville, Michigan State, Missouri, North Carolina, Northwestern, Ohio State and Washington.Parker told Zagoria he hopes to narrow his list down to "about eight" sometime over the summer before making his decision.Nunn, Parker's teammate at Simeon Career Academy in Chicago, was also a member of the 2011 FIBA Americas U16 championship team. The 6-foot-2 lefty averaged 9.6 points, 3.8 rebounds and 2.0 assists in five games.Okafor, a 2014 recruit out of Whitney Young High School in Chicago, averaged 14.6 points and 9.2 rebounds in five games for the U16 team last year. He shot better than 71 percent from the field and better than 82 percent from the free throw line.The Chicagoans are three of eight finalists who also played on the undefeated U16 team.Conner Frankamp (Wichita North H.S.Wichita, Kan.), Tyus Jones (Apple Valley H.S.Apple Valley, Minn.), Beejay Anya (DeMatha Catholic H.S.Gaithersburg, Md.), Dominique Collier (Denver East H.S.Denver, Colo.) and Johnathan Williams (Southwind H.S.Memphis, Tenn.) were named finalists who also played on last year's U16 team.Joel Berry (Lake Highland Prep SchoolApopka, Fla.), Stephen Domingo (Saint Ignatius PrepSan Francisco, Calif.), Rondae Jefferson (Chester H.S.Chester, Pa.), Dakari Johnson (Montverde Academy, Fla.Brooklyn, N.Y.), Stanley Johnson (Mater Dei H.S.Fullerton, Calif.) and Justice Winslow (St. John's SchoolHouston, Texas) round out the group.Preliminary round games will be held June 29 through July 4 in Lithuania, with the U.S. team competing against Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, France and China.The quarterfinals then begin on Friday July 6, the semifinals July 7 and the finals July 8.