On Friday, Sweden's national team captain will talk to the 38-year-old veteran for the first time since Jerebko's suspension from club and national team play in Sweden was lifted earlier this week.
Jerebko wants to play in this summer's European Championship, which the men's basketball team has qualified for for the first time in twelve years. But the veteran has been without a club since he injured his Achilles tendon in Puerto Rico in April last year.
Mikko Riipinen is the national team coach who has the main responsibility for the squad that will be selected ahead of the European Championship, at the end of June.
Somewhere, you'll have to make an assessment of: How does routine and those bits hold up against playing frequently? says the national team captain.
Riipinen thinks it's good that the Swedish Basketball Federation (SBB) and Jonas Jerebko have come to an agreement after the former NBA star's controversial transfer to CSKA Moscow, shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022. A transfer that Jerebko says he regrets.
It's important and good that you can gather around common values and that you can reach a point where all basketball players support the federation's values and how they see the world, and that we all do it in the same way, says the national team captain.
On Wednesday, the SBBF announced that Jerebko's suspension had been lifted. Sweden will start the European Championship finals on August 27 against Finland in Tampere.
