The 2024 Paris Olympics is internet hosting probably the most gifted worldwide basketball event ever, and star-power goes nicely past Staff USA. The times of the 1992 Dream Staff going through solely 5 NBA gamers on their approach to gold are lengthy over. Basketball is actually a global sport today, and even with the USA sending a loaded roster, the three finest gamers within the occasion are competing for different nations.
The Individuals stay the favourite within the event for good cause. LeBron James, Stephen Curry, and Kevin Durant type one of many biggest workforce foundations the game has ever seen. The U.S. had a pair shut calls of their tune-up slate, however nobody has been capable of beat them but. With the knockout levels looming, although, an upset is at all times potential in a single-elimination event.
SB Nation has already ranked the 12 groups within the Olympic males’s basketball event by who’s most probably to win gold. We even have an inventory of the 50 finest gamers within the area. With Nikola Jokic main Serbia, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander main Canada, and Franz and Moritz Wagner main Germany, there shall be no straightforward matchups as soon as the knockout stage begins. Right here’s all the pieces you should know in regards to the 2024 Paris Olympics males’s basketball event.
Olympic basketball format and guidelines
- The Olympic basketball event begins with group play. Groups play everybody of their group one time. The groups with the 2 finest data out of every group advance to the knockout spherical.
- The primary tiebreaker in group play is head-to-head outcomes. If there’s a three-way tie, point-differential is used to decided who makes it by.
- The knockout rounds are a single-elimination event with 16 groups. The 2 highest-ranked groups are positioned on reverse ends of the bracket. Groups can’t play one other workforce from their group within the quarterfinals.
Males’s Olympic basketball group standings
Group A
Canada 2-0
Australia 1-1
Spain 1-1
Greece 0-2
Group B
France 1-0
Germany 1-0
Brazil 0-1
Japan 0-1
Group C
USA 1-0
South Sudan 1-0
Serbia 0-1
Puerto Rico 0-1
Olympic males’s basketball schedule and outcomes
All occasions Japanese
Saturday, July 27
Australia 92, Spain 80
Germany 97, Japan 77
France 78, Brazil 66
Canada 86, Canada 79
Sunday, July 28
South Sudan 90, Puerto Rico 79
USA 110, Serbia 84
Tuesday, July 30
Spain 84, Greece 77
Canada 93, Australia 83
Japan vs. France, 11:15 a.m.
Brazil vs. Germany, 3 p.m.
Wednesday, July 31
Puerto Rico vs. Serbia, 11:15 a.m.
USA vs. South Sudan, 3 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 2
Japan vs. Brazil, 5 a.m.
Australia vs. Greece, 7:30 a.m.
Canada vs. Spain, 11:15 a.m.
France vs. Germany, 3:50 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 3
Puerto Rico vs. USA, 11:15 a.m.
Serbia vs. South Sudan, 3 p.m.
Quarterfinals
Tuesday, Aug. 6
Groups TBD, 5 a.m.
Groups TBD, 8:30 a.m.
Groups TBD, midday
Groups TBD, 3:30 p.m.
Semifinals
Thursday, Aug. 8
TBD vs. TBD, 11:30 a.m.
TBD vs. TBD, 3 p.m.
Bronze medal match
Saturday, Aug. 10
Loser of semifinal 1 vs. Loser of semifinal 2, 5 a.m.
Gold medal match
Saturday, Aug. 10
Winner of semifinal 1 vs. Winner of semifinal 2, 3:30 p.m.
