RIGA, Latvia — Kamar Baldwin is from Georgia, and he plays for the Georgia basketball team — no, not the one in Athens , the one in Tbilisi.

Baldwin, a Barrow County native and alum of Apalachee High, helped lead Georgia's national basketball team to a major upset win over France on Sunday, sending them into the quarterfinals at Europe's basketball championships, known as EuroBasket.

Baldwin had 24 points on 8-of-10 shooting in the 80-70 victory, adding four rebounds and two steals.

It's unclear if he's ever had a prior connection to Georgia, but it's a common practice in international basketball for smaller countries to offer citizenship to Americans playing overseas to give their national teams a lift.

And Baldwin has done that for Georgia at EuroBasket, scoring 12.3 points per g

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