Team USA has new look, new coach and plenty of new faces for 2022 FIBA World Cup

Just over a week before USA Basketball travels to Australia for the 2022 FIBA World Cup, multiple faces of the storied program — some for the past two decades — are nowhere to be seen at the training camp in Las Vegas.

There's no Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi on the floor, nor fellow Team USA stalwarts Brittney Griner, Sylvia Fowles and Tina Charles — a group that has combined for 19 Olympic gold medals. Not even A'ja Wilson or Breanna Stewart are around at the moment, the former set to join the team after winning her first WNBA title on Sunday.

Instead, camp is full of fresh faces competing for a spot on the World Cup roster: a mix of up-and-coming stars like Sabrina Ionescu and Shakira Austin, and more established players like Kahleah Copper and Betnijah Laney, who have yet to earn call-ups for the two biggest international tournaments: the Olympics and the World Cup.

«It's challenging because there are voids all over the place,» Cheryl Reeve, who took over as national team coach from Dawn Staley in December, said of the absences.

In Reeve's first major international tournament at the helm, which begins Wednesday against Belgium (9:20 p.m. ET on ESPN+), onlookers will catch their first glimpse of how one of sports' most successful dynasties will handle a massive changing of the guard. The final roster features a single player in her 30s (Alyssa Thomas) and just five holdovers from the 2020 Olympic team. At stake? A fourth consecutive World Cup medal since 2010.

USA Basketball has also lost just one game over the past six World Cups (formerly known as World Championship) and has an even longer winning streak at the Olympics, despite a sometimes rocky performance in Tokyo.

«We're in a little bit of a transition,» Stewart