At the 2012 London Olympics, the United States sent a Dream Ten team composed of NBA players to participate in the Olympic men's basketball competition. In the final on August 12, 2012, Beijing time, the Dream Ten team defeated the Spanish team 107-100 and won the gold medal to successfully defend the Olympic men's basketball championship.
The Dream Ten team consists of 12 NBA stars, including Cameron Anthony, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Tyson Chandler, Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis, James Harden, Andre Iguodala, Kevin Love, Chris Paul, Russell Westbrook, and Deron Williams.
Cameron Anthony, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Chris Paul, Delon Williams and five other players are members of the Dream Eight team for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games; Tyson Chandler, Kevin Durant, Kevin Loaf, Andre Iguodala, Russell Westbrook and other 5 players are members of the Dream Nine team at the 2010 World Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. Rookie Champion Anthony Davis, 2011-2012 All-Sixth Man James Harden was selected for the Dream Team for the first time.
The average age of the 12 members of the Dream Ten team is 26 years old, the oldest is Kobe Bryant 34 years old, and the youngest is rookie Anthony Davis, who is only 19 years old.
Dream Ten head coach Mike Shashevsky, nicknamed Coach Old K, is the basketball head coach of Duke University, a well-known basketball school in the United States, and he is also the head coach of the Dream Seven, Dream Eight, Dream Nine, and Dream Eleven teams.
In the group stage, Dream 10 defeated France 98-71, Tunisia 110-63, Nigeria 156-73, Lithuania 99-94, Argentina 126-97, and won all five games to qualify for the first place in the group. The match against Nigeria set a single-game high of 156 points and a single-game maximum score difference of 83 points, and at the same time, it was also a new Olympic men's basketball scoring record and the largest point difference record.
In the quarter-finals, Dream Ten defeated Australia 119-86; in the semi-finals, it defeated Argentina 109-83 to advance to the final; and finally defeated Spain 107-100 in the final to win the Gold Medal of the London Olympic Men's Basketball Team with a record of 8 wins.
The Dream Ten team averaged 115.5 points in 8 games, which was only lower than the 117.25 points of the Dream Team and the 120.125 points of the Dream Team, ranking third. The average net win score was 32.125 points, which was lower than the Dream One team with 43.75 points, the Dream Two team with 37.75 points, and the Dream Eleven team with 33 points, ranking fourth.
The fly in the ointment is that the Dream Ten team in the group stage, the game against lithuania team 99-94, only a small victory of 5 points, the absolute dominance of the game is slightly insufficient, but the record of 8 wins shows that the dream ten team's basketball supremacy in the London Olympic Games is unshakable.