As the Olympic pre-qualifiers enter their final phase, several world stars may miss out on the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Meanwhile, the United States is gearing up to form a new “Dream Team” to maintain its hegemony and take home the gold.
To raise the honor of USA Basketball after its 4th place finish at the last World Cup in Asia, the stars and stripes will be coming out in force in the tournament, which will be played in Lille and then at the Accor Arena in Bercy. Seeking to maintain their hegemony and take home the gold in the best Olympic tournament of the century.
The story has yet to begin. And after the NBA finals and a short summer break, USA Basketball called its players together in Las Vegas, the point on the map where the party begins. There, LeBron James acted as host as the great captain and received the stars player by player. From those returning after a long absence, like Stephen Curry, to the newcomer, Joel Embiid, “It’s going to be a fun summer,” he never tires of saying.
Along the way, they have friendly encounters with complexity. Canada in Las Vegas and will then go on tour to Abu Dhabi to face Australia and Serbia. They will travel to London where they will face South Sudan and Germany. Then comes the Olympic Games, where they will repeat clashes with the Balkans, the surprising South Sudan, and the winner of the Pre-Olympic Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which will emerge from Italy-Lithuania and Puerto Rico-Mexico. A high-voltage group, although that is how the Games are as a general rule.
The goal is to regain the team’s honor. “We want to send a message about how dominant our players are,” Kevin Durant told Boardroom Cover Story. And he goes further. “I want wins. By 40, 50 points. I want to do it,” he added. Everything on the table and something frankly complicated since the most similar can be the 33 points of margin from the 2014 World Cup in Spain or the 32.1 of the 2012 London Games. From there, they are much more even than they seem.
The track will tell, although it is well known that the United States changes its approach when playing for the Olympic gold medal. His team (although there were some doubts with Kawhi Leonard in the physical section) is prepared for the great battle to be the ‘Dream Team’ of all time. Big words.
