At the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024, the Americans will be overwhelming favorites for the gold medal.
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The USA representatives have announced a spectacle in Paris and it seems that the Americans will go to the Olympic Games in the strongest possible composition.
Many see this tournament as the last dance of LeBron James in the national team, and one of the best basketball players of all time does not want to say goodbye to failure – the Americans come to Paris in the strongest possible composition, with a bunch of hardened NBA aces, who need to win another gold.
American journalists obtained a list of as many as 41 basketball players, from which the national team members will be selected. Of course, there won’t be a place for many of them even at the beginning of the preparation of the national team for the Olympic Games, but just looking at the list of names must make the average basketball fan think. How much can a team in which Curry, Leonard, Butler, James and Davis will play at the same time? Probably much more than everyone else.
In addition to the five of them on the list, there are quite solid replacements in the form of Kyrie Irving, Chris Paul, James Harden, Jayson Tatum, Kevin Durant, Joel Embiid,… Scary, regardless of the composition of the other national teams that qualified for the Paris, among which is Serbia, as a finalist of the previous Mundobasket.
Extended USA Roster for Paris 2024: Bam Adebayo, Jarrett Allen, Paolo Bankero, Desmond Bain, Scotty Barnes, Devin Booker, Michael Bridges. Jaylen Brown, Jaylen Brunson, Jimmy Butler, Alex Caruso, Steph Curry, Anthony Davis, Kevin Durant, Anthony Edwards, Joel Embiid, Dieron Fox, Paul George, Aaron Gordon, Tyrese Halliburton, James Harden, Josh Hart, Tyler Hero, Jrue Holiday , Chet Holmgren, Brandon Ingram, Kyrie Irving, Jaren Jackson Jr., LeBron James, Cam Johnson, Walker Kessler, Kawhi Leonard, Damian Lillard, Donovan Mitchell, Chris Paul, Bobby Portis, Austin Reaves, Duncan Robinson, Jayson Tatum, Derrick White, Trae Young.
USA Basketball player pool of 41 finalists that will be used to select the 12-player roster for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris:pic.twitter.com/Bs1yqnQDQD
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We remind you that the Americans won gold at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021, before that at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro when they defeated Serbia in the fight for gold, and even earlier in London in 2012 and in Beijing in 2008. They were also champions in 2000, 1996 and 1992, and the incredible dominance was interrupted only by Argentina at the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004. If it weren’t for that great result of the Argentines, the Americans would have played for the ninth gold medal in a row in Paris.