2023-09-12 13:36:24
(Los Angeles) NBA superstars LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant could lead Team USA to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, according to The Athletic and ESPN, good news for American basketball which left empty-handed from the World Cup which has just ended. ‘finish in the Philippines.
Posted at 9:36 a.m.
Double Olympic champion, four-time NBA champion, LeBron James would try to convince other superstars of the North American basketball league to join the team which will try in Paris to win Olympic gold for the fifth consecutive time, according to The Athletic website.
According to the ESPN channel, among the players likely to accompany him, guard Stephen Curry – career record holder for the number of 3-point shots in the NBA, and four times champion – would like to wear the jersey of the American Olympic team in Paris coached by her Golden State Warriors coach, Steve Kerr.
James, 38, led the United States to gold at the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Olympics, but was also part of the U.S. teams that had to settle for bronze at Athens 2004 and the World Cup. in Japan in 2006.
According to The Athletic, LeBron James would have notably called Curry and another former MVP (best player) of the league, the slender Phoenix Suns winger Kevin Durant, to convince them to follow him in the Parisian adventure. Durant, who turns 35 on September 29, was on the U.S. team that won gold in London, but also in Rio in 2016 and Tokyo in 2021.
Among the other players “recruited” by James for the Paris Games, again according to The Athletic, are his Lakers teammate Anthony Davis, Boston Celtics winger Jayson Tatum and even Warriors interior Draymond Green. ESPN also quotes point guard Chris Paul, just transferred to Golden State, and his ex-Suns teammate Devin Booker.
The American team, made up mainly of young players and without any superstar, returned empty-handed from the Basketball World Cup won by Germany, after losing the match for 3rd place to Canada.
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