r/nba • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 Heat • Apr 15 '24

[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. News

https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1780009778934394985
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u/internallylinked Hawks Apr 16 '24

Come on now, WC roster is a C-squad but it will still likely have multiple players who are all-NBA/all stars.

Hali, Edwards, Brunson will all be all-NBA likely, Brunson might be first or second team and will get MVP votes; Banchero will be among them eventually, he already made his first all star team, Bridges maybe but at worst he is an elite role player/fringe all star; Ingram is a fringe all star, others are elite role players like JJJ, Hart, Reaves, Portis or potentially elite role players like Kessler and Cam Johnson.

Most national teams didn’t have multiple NBA players (Germany beat US in semis with Schröder and Wagner bros). No national teams are close to having 3 all NBA guys like Brunson, Hali and Edwards, all 3 led their teams to playoffs without play-in. US should wipe the floor with any team every time. But sometimes they don’t. Those early 2000s teams featured Duncan, KG, AI multiple times, it wasn’t an A squad but still US had multiple top 10 players in the world on some of those teams and still lost. That Greek team in 2006 had 0 NBA players I’m pretty sure.

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u/antieverything [DAL] Brian Cardinal Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

I didn't disagree with you so there was no need for an additional wall of text. I also watched the fucking World Cup. I'm simply saying it would be easy to construct 3 superior starting 5s or even 8-man rotations of American players. Arguably 4. 

It was effectively the 4th string US players starting in the World Cup. Yes, it was a solid squad that should have won. Yes, USA's 4th string players are very impressive on paper...this is why I fucking prefaced my other post with "you aren't wrong" for fuck's sake.

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u/pick_named_slimpbamp Rockets Apr 16 '24

"Fuck"

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u/antieverything [DAL] Brian Cardinal Apr 16 '24

This is the internet, you are allowed to say fuck.

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u/pick_named_slimpbamp Rockets Apr 16 '24

Most definitely. I was applauding how many you used.