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 US has received essentially the most Olympic medals for basketball within the males’s and ladies’s competitions.
The lads’s workforce has received 16 gold medals, one silver medal and two bronze medals, however this stacked 2024 workforce is aiming for nothing in need of a seventeenth gold medal.
“It could imply the world,” Curry stated of successful gold (by way of 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 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 workforce is seeing Steph and LeBron James on the identical workforce 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 setting. And seeing how our video games match, complement one another has been superior to this point… Everyone 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] enjoying expertise and I’m enjoying with guys I in all probability won’t ever play with once more at this stage; it’s particular. …It’s simply an honor realizing what we’ve all achieved in our careers. The truth that we’re the elder statesman with ’Bron nonetheless enjoying at a excessive stage.”
LeBron has definitely been main the way in which for Crew USA, as he led the workforce in factors (73), assists (18) and subject objective proportion (63 p.c) throughout 5 exhibition video games.
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