To many individuals’s shock, Warriors legend Steph Curry shall 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 ladies’s competitions.
The lads’s group has gained 16 gold medals, one silver medal and two bronze medals, however this stacked 2024 group is aiming for nothing in need of a seventeenth gold medal.
“It will imply the world,” Curry stated of profitable gold (via 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 loads of historical past that has gone on on this sport. From ’92 when The Dream Crew 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 Crew USA assembling so many veterans on the one group is seeing Steph and LeBron James on the identical group for the primary time ever.
Curry definitely isn’t taking it with no 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 this point… All people is simply right here, having enjoyable, and understands the second from high to backside. … I do know that that is most likely my one and solely [Olympic] taking part in expertise and I’m taking part in with guys I most likely won’t ever play with once more at this degree; it’s particular. …It’s simply an honor figuring out what we’ve all performed 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 Crew USA, as he led the group in factors (73), assists (18) and discipline purpose share (63 %) throughout 5 exhibition video games.
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