After months of anticipation, the superstar-studded Team USA finally takes center stage in the 2024 Paris Olympics as it opens its title-retention bid versus the Nikola Jokic-led Serbia
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Coming from a disappointing fourth-place finish in the 2023 FIBA World Cup in Manila, the all-NBA USA squadand added superstars LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis, and Jayson Tatum back in the fold, as well as first-time Olympians Steph Curry and Joel Embiid, among others. With Durant’s status for USA’s opening game still uncertain due to a calf injury, count on Curry to form a deadly one-two punch with James and shoot the lights out from long distance in his first-ever appearance in the Olympic stage.
The Serbians recently fell to the Americans by 26 points, 105-79, in their exhibition match last July 17 in Abu Dhabi.
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