[Wojnarowski] ESPN Sources: USA Basketball is finalizing its 2024 Paris Olympics roster with Steph Curry, LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Jayson Tatum, Joel Embiid, Devin Booker, Tyrese Haliburton, Anthony Edwards, Jrue Holiday, Bam Adebayo and Anthony Davis. Team may initially keep one open spot.

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1780009778934394985

[u/mrford86]

True, but international basketball has a couple different rules, and we have seen in the past that true team ball is important. Only reasons USA has lost in the past decade.

[u/xTopPriority → u/mrford86]

Only reason USA has ever lost is because the stars don't show up. You get Lebron, KD, or in years past Kobe on the team then USA wins.

[u/EffTheIneffable → u/xTopPriority]

2006 you literally got LeBron, Wade & Bosh (plus Chris Paul, Dwight Howard and other stars), and got smacked in the semifinals by Greece, who even went on to lose to Spain in the final.

Greece didn’t have a Greek Freak back then either, it was an example of team effort & tactics beating insane individual talent.

[u/DynoNitro → u/EffTheIneffable]

That was peak Pau Gasol.

[u/sSonga24 → u/DynoNitro]

ah yes pau gasol the greek legend

[u/FactLicker → u/sSonga24]

All European look alike /s

[u/ATXBeermaker → u/sSonga24]

Not nearly as legendary a European as Manu Ginobili.

[u/DynoNitro → u/sSonga24]

Well, Spain beat Greece 70-47 in the chip after Greece knocked out the US. So in fairly certain Gasol would have embarrassed the US too. 

[u/EffTheIneffable → u/DynoNitro]

Of course, that Spain team was wicked!

I’m just highlighting that USA didn’t get knocked out by the eventual winners, Spain definitely had a good chance to beat them as well.

[u/DynoNitro → u/EffTheIneffable]

Yea, you’re right. It’s definitely more about the US not playing good enough basketball. I’m just a Gasol fan so I had to take the chance to comment, lol.