It’s perfect for the spectacle, less for the hope of a gold medal cherished by France’s Victor Wembanyama or Rudy Gobert… The United States will send a new Dream Team this summer to the Paris Olympic Games, with LeBron James , Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, but also Joel Embiid or Jayson Tatum.
According to ESPN and The Athletic, USA Basketball has already selected 11 of the 12 players who will try to restore the image of their selection, which finished the 2023 World Cup in a pitiful 4th place, by retaining the Olympic title, which did not escape the Americans since their bronze medal in 2004 in Athens, where Argentina was crowned.
Alongside Lakers superstar LeBron James, who had several times expressed his wish to attract big names from the NBA to Paris, Warriors fullback Stephen Curry will participate in his first Olympic tournament.
Two survivors of the 2023 World Cup
They will find Phoenix winger Kevin Durant, present at the Games continuously since 2012, and a fourth NBA MVP in the person of Philadelphia pivot Joel Embiid, born in Cameroon, recently naturalized after having been hoped for a time by France , whose passport he also has.
The interior of the Lakers Anthony Davis and that of Miami Bam Adebayo, the two Boston players Jayson Tatum and Jrue Holiday, Durant’s teammate at Phoenix Devin Booker, and the young Anthony Edwards and Tyrese Haliburton, the only survivors of the team from 2023 World Cup, will make up the rest of the squad coached by Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr.