2024 Olympic basketball knockout preview - Where Team USA stacks up - ESPN

06.08.2024 - 16:11 espn.com

PARIS — This week begins the next phase of what might be the most competitive international basketball tournament ever, with an unprecedented depth of talent reaching the 2024 Paris Olympic quarterfinals.

Start with the fact that there are six NBA Most Valuable Players with a total of 13 trophies — LeBron James (4), Nikola Jokic (3), Stephen Curry (2), Giannis Antetokounmpo (2), Kevin Durant and Joel Embiid — in the field and go from there.

Four of the five first-team All-NBA players from last season — Jokic, Antetokounmpo, Jayson Tatum and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander — are in the race for gold.

And then add seven of the 10 players who made second- and third-team All-NBA: James, Curry, Durant, Anthony Davis, Devin Booker, Tyrese Haliburton and Anthony Edwards.

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The United States held off France 67-66 to win an unprecedented eighth successive women's Olympic basketball gold on Sunday and extend their run of victories at the tournament to 61 games. A'ja Wilson scored a game-high 21 points for the Americans who won the title for the 10th time overall, surviving a buzzer-beating shot from France's Gabby Williams. The hosts needed a three to force overtime but Williams' foot was on three-point line as she let go off the ball, so her shot counted for just two points in a dramatic finale.

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