USA Olympic Basketball

[JALMOND]

Good roster shaping up...

Head Coach: Gregg Popovich (San Antonio)

Draymond Green (Golden State)
Damian Lillard (Portland)
Jayson Tatum (Boston)
Bradley Beal (Washington)
Devin Booker (Phoenix)
Kevin Durant (Brooklyn)
Bam Adebayo (Miami)
James Harden (Brooklyn)
Khris Middleton (Milwaukee)
Kevin Love (Cleveland)
Jrue Holiday (Milwaukee)

More to come...

[AZGrizFan]

And Chris Paul, I believe.

[JALMOND]

And Chris Paul, I believe.

Chris Paul opts out.

https://www.espn.com/olympics/basketbal ... ources-say

[Gil Dobie]

Kevin Durant, F, Brooklyn Nets
James Harden, G, Brooklyn Nets
Damian Lillard, G, Portland Trail Blazers
Devin Booker, G, Phoenix Suns
Jayson Tatum, F, Boston Celtics
Bradley Beal, G, Washington Wizards
Khris Middleton, G/F, Milwaukee Bucks
Bam Adebayo, C, Miami Heat
Draymond Green, F/C, Golden State Warriors
Jrue Holiday, G, Milwaukee Bucks
Kevin Love, F, Cleveland Cavaliers
Brook Lopez, C, Milwaukee Bucks

Not participating
LeBron James, F, Los Angeles Lakers
Anthony Davis, F/C, Los Angeles Lakers
Stephen Curry, G, Golden State Warriors
Kyrie Irving, G, Brooklyn Nets
Jimmy Butler, G/F, Miami Heat
Donovan Mitchell, G, Utah Jazz
Chris Paul, G, Phoenix Suns

[SuperHornet]

We're gonna lose big....

[AZGrizFan]

And Chris Paul, I believe.

Chris Paul opts out.

https://www.espn.com/olympics/basketbal ... ources-say

Ah. too bad.

[dbackjon]

We're gonna lose big....

Why and to what country?

[SuperHornet]

Probably the Sovs....

[JALMOND]

Kevin Durant, F, Brooklyn Nets
James Harden, G, Brooklyn Nets
Damian Lillard, G, Portland Trail Blazers
Devin Booker, G, Phoenix Suns
Jayson Tatum, F, Boston Celtics
Bradley Beal, G, Washington Wizards
Khris Middleton, G/F, Milwaukee Bucks
Bam Adebayo, C, Miami Heat
Draymond Green, F/C, Golden State Warriors
Jrue Holiday, G, Milwaukee Bucks
Kevin Love, F, Cleveland Cavaliers
Brook Lopez, C, Milwaukee Bucks

Not participating
LeBron James, F, Los Angeles Lakers
Anthony Davis, F/C, Los Angeles Lakers
Stephen Curry, G, Golden State Warriors
Kyrie Irving, G, Brooklyn Nets
Jimmy Butler, G/F, Miami Heat
Donovan Mitchell, G, Utah Jazz
Chris Paul, G, Phoenix Suns

I hadn't found anything yet confirming Lopez as definite. Everything is still saying he is "undecided".

[Gil Dobie]

Kevin Durant, F, Brooklyn Nets
James Harden, G, Brooklyn Nets
Damian Lillard, G, Portland Trail Blazers
Devin Booker, G, Phoenix Suns
Jayson Tatum, F, Boston Celtics
Bradley Beal, G, Washington Wizards
Khris Middleton, G/F, Milwaukee Bucks
Bam Adebayo, C, Miami Heat
Draymond Green, F/C, Golden State Warriors
Jrue Holiday, G, Milwaukee Bucks
Kevin Love, F, Cleveland Cavaliers
Brook Lopez, C, Milwaukee Bucks

Not participating
LeBron James, F, Los Angeles Lakers
Anthony Davis, F/C, Los Angeles Lakers
Stephen Curry, G, Golden State Warriors
Kyrie Irving, G, Brooklyn Nets
Jimmy Butler, G/F, Miami Heat
Donovan Mitchell, G, Utah Jazz
Chris Paul, G, Phoenix Suns

I hadn't found anything yet confirming Lopez as definite. Everything is still saying he is "undecided".

List is from Yahoo Sports Link

Correction: This story previously incorrectly said that Brook Lopez had made the Olympic roster. Lopez has not made the roster and the story has been updated.

[JALMOND]

The full 12-man roster, courtesy of Yahoo Sports

Kevin Durant, Brooklyn
Damian Lillard, Portland
Devin Booker, Phoenix
Jayson Tatum, Boston
Bradley Beal, Washington
Khris Middleton, Milwaukee
Zach LaVine, Chicago
Bam Adebayo, Miami
Draymond Green, Golden State
Jrue Holiday, Milwaukee
Kevin Love, Cleveland
Jerami Grant, Detroit

https://sports.yahoo.com/us-mens-olympi ... 41691.html

[JALMOND]

Assistant coaches:

Steve Kerr (Golden State)
Jay Wright (Villanova)
Lloyd Pierce (formerly with Atlanta)
Eric Spoelstra (Miami)---Spoelstra will not accompany the team to Tokyo.

[JALMOND]

US Olympic team is in Group A with France, the Czech Republic and Iran. Canada failed to make the Olympics, continuing a drought that has gone on since 2000.

https://www.nba.com/news/mens-basketbal ... o-olympics

[SuperHornet]

Men's Hoops:

Group A:

IRI
FRA
USA
CZE

Group B:

AUS
GER
ITA
NGR

Group C:

ARG
JPN
ESP
SLO

Women's Hoops:

Group A:

KOR
SRB
CAN
ESP

Group B:

NGR
JPN
FRA
USA

Group C:

AUS
PUR
PRC
BEL

[SuperHornet]

3x3 Hoops:

Men:

SRB
CCCP
LAT
NED
CHN
JPN
POL
BEL

Women:

FRA
CCCP
CHN
ROM
ITA
JPN
MGL
USA

[JALMOND]

Men's and women's exhibition matchups set. All games in Las Vegas.

https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2021/07/ ... ion-games/

[JALMOND]

USA starts off playing France tomorrow. Game is at 8am Eastern Time, streamed live on Peacock network. Game will be available on tape delay at 4pm Eastern on NBC.

https://www.businessinsider.com/olympic ... w-to-watch

[JALMOND]

France gets by USA, 83-76.

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/i ... -loss-2004

[SuperHornet]

It looks to me like it's time for Popovich to step aside in favor of Hammon....

[CID1990]

Popovich is going to cost these guys the opportunity to show their asses on the podium

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and a medal, too


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[SuperHornet]

I guess I haven't been paying attention. I was watching the USA-FRA game and wondering where the trapezoidal lane was. Turns out FIBA changed the lane to conform to the NBA lane way back in 2008. SMH....

[93henfan]

I guess I haven't been paying attention. I was watching the USA-FRA game and wondering where the trapezoidal lane was. Turns out FIBA changed the lane to conform to the NBA lane way back in 2008. SMH....

[Ivytalk]

Popovich is going to cost these guys the opportunity to show their asses on the podium

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and a medal, too


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Greg “America is a racist country” Popovich won’t win gold? Say it ain’t so!

[JALMOND]

USA plays Iran tomorrow morning at 12:40am Eastern time on Peacock Network. Tape Delay at 3pm tomorrow afternoon Eastern Time on NBC and 11:30pm Eastern on NBCSN.

[CID1990]

USA plays Iran tomorrow morning at 12:40am Eastern time on Peacock Network. Tape Delay at 3pm tomorrow afternoon Eastern Time on NBC and 11:30pm Eastern on NBCSN.

I’m torn.

Team Iran would kneel during their anthem but they’d swing by the neck from a construction crane

because systemic something


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