RBS #85 MEET TEAM USA 2024 & 3x3 TEAM REPRESENTING USA!

RBS #85
MEET TEAM USA 2024 & 3x3 TEAM REPRESENTING USA!

USA Basketball at the Olympics

The United States has medaled every Olympics in which it has participated, dating back to a silver medal in 1976. In total, the USA owns nine gold medals, one silver and one bronze. The U.S has won seven consecutive gold medals, the first of which came at the 1996 Atlanta Games. The 2024 Olympics will be held in Paris.

No one player has more familiarity with Team USA on the world’s biggest stage than Diana Taurasi, who will make a record sixth consecutive Olympic appearance later this summer. Her 38 games as a USA Basketball Olympian is second to none, and the 42-year-old veteran will be joined by Kahleah Copper and Brittney Griner as fellow representatives of the Phoenix Mercury in Paris.

Taurasi and Griner both return after capturing gold in the 2020 and 2016 Olympic Games, and Breanna Stewart. Napheesa Collier, Chelsea Gray, Jewell Loyd and A’ja Wilson are all also set to run it back from the victorious Tokyo Olympic crew for the red, white and blue in Paris.

First-time five-on-five Olympians Sabrina Ionescu, Kelsey Plum, Alyssa Thomas and Jackie Young all have either 3x3 Olympic gold or World Cup gold around their respective resumes’ necks.

The committee is ultimately tasked with how to equip USA Women’s National Team head coach Cheryl Reeve with the best group capable of upholding the gold standard. Versatility, familiarity and positional depth, on top of the obvious talent, are among those criteria considered in the process of narrowing to 12.

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