To many individuals’s shock, Warriors legend Steph Curry will probably be competing in his first-ever Olympics in Paris and he’s spoken about what it means to him.
The USA has gained essentially the most Olympic medals for basketball within the males’s and girls’s competitions.
The lads’s staff has gained 16 gold medals, one silver medal and two bronze medals, however this stacked 2024 staff is aiming for nothing in need of a seventeenth gold medal.
“It could imply the world,” Curry stated of profitable gold (through Andscape). “You decide to doing one thing like this. You perceive the problem that’s forward of us to do a few of these issues. That is historic stuff. The Olympic stage has had quite a lot of historical past that has gone on on this sport. From ’92 when The Dream Group performed till now, USA has had supreme dominance and it’s our job to proceed that. So be up on that podium, hear a nationwide anthem and have the gold medals. That’s the imaginative and prescient. That’s why I’m right here.”
Probably the most thrilling elements of Group USA assembling so many veterans on the one staff is seeing Steph and LeBron James on the identical staff for the primary time ever.
Curry definitely isn’t taking it without any consideration.
“Clearly, me and LeBron have by no means been teammates in a aggressive surroundings. And seeing how our video games match, complement one another has been superior to date… All people is simply right here, having enjoyable, and understands the second from prime to backside. … I do know that that is in all probability my one and solely [Olympic] taking part in expertise and I’m taking part in with guys I in all probability won’t ever play with once more at this degree; it’s particular. …It’s simply an honor realizing what we’ve all carried out in our careers. The truth that we’re the elder statesman with ’Bron nonetheless taking part in at a excessive degree.”
LeBron has definitely been main the way in which for Group USA, as he led the staff in factors (73), assists (18) and area aim proportion (63 p.c) throughout 5 exhibition video games.
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