Will Magnay and Jack McVeigh earn Olympic selection for Paris

The fate of two Tasmania JackJumpers stars has been decided ahead of the Paris Olympics with some shock selection decisions made.

Chris Goulding has been left out of the Boomers squad. (Photo by Kelly Defina/Getty Images)

Tasmanian JackJumpers duo Jack McVeigh and Will Magnay are on their way to the Paris Olympics.

The NBL championship winning duo’s positions were confirmed with the Boomers set to produce some major selection shocks, with Olympic bronze medallists Chris Goulding, Matisse Thybulle and defensive beast Xavier Cooks all cut.

NBA wing Thybulle and NBL stars Goulding, Cooks, Jack White and Dejan Vasiljevic have been left out of the Boomers team for Paris.

Portland Trailblazer Thybulle, 27, is a surprise omission, given the athletic defensive guard-forward has elite tools and was a member of the Boomers’ bronze-medal winning Tokyo Olympic team.

The move to leave Cooks out of the squad is intriguing, given the versatile big man just signed the biggest contract in NBL history to play under Goorjian at the Sydney Kings for the next three years — a marker of the brutal reality of Olympic selection.

One of Australia’s greatest marksmen, Goulding, 35, appeared to book his ticket to Paris with eight treys in the two games against China. But selectors opted to look elsewhere.

White, who will play for Melbourne United this season after two years in the US, and sharpshooting Adelaide 36ers guard Dejan Vasiljevic were told before Thursday night’s game they would not get any game time but did not find out they wouldn’t be on the plane until later that evening.

The squad will be officially announced on Sunday, but multiple sources confirmed to this masthead legends Patty Mills and Joe Ingles will join Andrew Gaze as the only Aussie hoopers to compete at five Olympiads, while Tasmania JackJumpers Will Magnay and Jack White franked their NBL championship with maiden Olympic berths.

BOOMERS 12-MAN SQUAD

Josh Giddey

Matthew Dellavedova

Patty Mills

Dyson Daniels

Josh Green

Dante Exum

Jack McVeigh

Nick Kay

Joe Ingles

Jock Landale

Duop Reath

Will Magnay

MISSED: Matisse Thybulle, Chris Goulding, Xavier Cooks, Jack White, Dejan Vasiljevic