To many individuals’s shock, Warriors legend Steph Curry can be competing in his first-ever Olympics in Paris and he’s spoken about what it means to him.
The US has gained essentially the most Olympic medals for basketball within the males’s and ladies’s competitions.
The boys’s crew has gained 16 gold medals, one silver medal and two bronze medals, however this stacked 2024 crew is aiming for nothing wanting 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 a whole lot of historical past that has gone on on this sport. From ’92 when The Dream Workforce 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.”
One of the crucial thrilling elements of Workforce USA assembling so many veterans on the one crew is seeing Steph and LeBron James on the identical crew 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… Everyone is simply right here, having enjoyable, and understands the second from prime 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 stage; 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 stage.”
LeBron has definitely been main the best way for Workforce USA, as he led the crew in factors (73), assists (18) and subject purpose share (63 %) throughout 5 exhibition video games.
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