Brian Windhorst and Tim MacMahon agree that Germany is the impediment to the United States men’s basketball team’s victory in Paris. (1:13)
The EE. UU. se team is heading into the 2024 Olympics in Paris with a roster full of some of the NBA’s biggest stars and facing the most competitive squad of all time.
As a current four-time Olympic gold medalist, Team USA is a member of the U. S. Baseball Medal. The U. S. is once again the favorite, but faces a tough festival of players such as France (with Victor Wembanyama and Rudy Gobert), Serbia (Nikola Jokic), Germany (Dennis Schroder, Moritz Wagner, Franz Wagner) and Canada (Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Jamal Murray).
Among those who play for the U. S. team are LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant. Under the direction of coach Steve Kerr, the team will return to the podium after the American team finished fourth at the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup. .
With the organizational level held at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy in Lille, France, they remained unbeaten in Group C (beating Serbia, South Sudan and Puerto Rico) and occupying the top position in the overall standings of 12. Then, the United States defeated Brazil in the final. quarterfinals, 122-87.
The round of 16 now moves on to the semi-finals (8 August) and the gold medal match (10 August) at the Accor Arena.
Heading into the Olympics, the U. S. team went undefeated in exhibition matches. The team beat Canada in Las Vegas, then Australia and Serbia in Abu Dhabi. He then won two hard-fought matches in London against South Sudan and Germany.
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Despite some difficulties at first, LeBron James and company managed to defeat a talented Canadian team in an exhibition victory in Las Vegas.
LeBron James and Stephen Curry
*Kawhi Leonard retired from Team USA. On July 10.
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Twelve organizations qualified for the Olympic Games, three of them made up of four organizations. The top two organizations of the three organizations advanced to the quarterfinals, along with the top two organizations in third place. The matches at the organizational level took place at the Stade Pierre Mauroy in Lille. The quarter-finals, semi-finals and medal matches will be played at the Accor Arena in Paris.
ELIMINATIVE ROUND RESULTS
RESULTS OF PREVIOUS STEPS IN GROUP
The 2024 FIBA Men’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament took place from July 2 to 7 in Greece, Latvia, Spain and Puerto Rico.
These tournaments form the final four teams (Brazil, Greece, Puerto Rico and Spain) to complete the 12 teams of the men’s Olympic basketball tournament in Paris. They will be registered in the other 8 qualified groups: France, United States, Canada, Australia, South Sudan, Japan, Serbia and Germany.
Piraeus, Greece (qualified for Greece)
Riga, Latvia (Brazil qualified)
San Juan, Puerto Rico (qualified for Puerto Rico)
July 7: Puerto Rico 79, Lithuania 68
Valencia, Spain (Spain qualified)