Led by Giankudu, Curry made his first appearance in the Olympics! The U.S. men's basketball team won five consecutive Olympic championships
On April 16, Beijing time, according to U.S. media reports, the U.S. men's basketball team is finalizing the squad for the 2024 Paris Olympics, and 11 players have been confirmed, and another one spot is temporarily open for a decision to be made during the team's training camp in July.
The list of 11 people who have been identified are:
LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, Jrue Holiday , Devin Booker, Joel Embiid, Ben Adebayo, Anthony Davis, Jayson Tatum, Tyres Halliburton, Anthony Edwards
This list can be described as star-studded, with the three current NBA superstars James, Curry, and Durant all on the list.
Durant, who turns 36 in September, has three Olympic gold medals to his name, and he is the only player other than Carmelo Anthony to do so, and he is also the all-time leading scorer of the U.S. men's Olympic men's basketball team.
James, who turns 40 at the end of the year, will be making his fourth Olympic appearance, having won bronze with the U.S. men's basketball team in 2004 and gold medals in 2008 and 2012.
Curry, who turned 36 in March, is competing in his first Olympics, having represented the U.S. men's basketball team at the World Cup (World Championships) but has yet to play in the Olympics.
This is likely to be the "last dance" of James (center), Curry (left), and Durant (right) on the U.S. team
In addition, it is worth mentioning that Embiid can represent either France or the United States men's basketball team in the Olympics, and in the end he chose the latter between the two, which also made the French Basketball Association quite unhappy. Thanks to the addition of Embiid, the U.S. men's basketball team finally has a reliable scoring powerhouse inside, and it can be said that the U.S. team is like a tiger.
The head coach of the U.S. men's basketball team is Warriors coach Steve Kerr, who took over the coaching whip from Popovich, and the 2023 World Cup lead the team to a medal has made Kerr have some doubts. However, in the 2019 Men's Basketball World Cup, Popovich's U.S. men's basketball team performed even worse and missed the Final Four. In August, Cole will lead the luxury division to a five-peat-in winning the Olympic title in Paris.
The last time the U.S. men's basketball team lost gold at the Olympics was in Athens in 2004, when they lost to Argentina in the semifinals and won Ginobili's Olympic gold medal, which they only won bronze, and the U.S. men's basketball team has not lost gold in the next four Olympics.
Edited by Cheng Li