The U.S. men's basketball team has two primary goals at the Paris Olympics: a gold medal and seeing Simone Biles compete.
Bam Adebayo has two primary goals to accomplish at the Paris Olympics. The first one is obvious: a gold medal. The second one: getting a picture with Simone Biles. Among Biles' biggest fans going into the Paris Games is a group of fellow Olympians, some of them more than 2 feet taller than she is, most of whom have never been to any sort of gymnastics meet in their lives. But make no mistake: The U.S. men's basketball team loves her.
Olympic trials in Minneapolis, Biles reached a height of 12 feet, according to NBC, during the first tumbling pass of her floor routine. A basketball rim is 10 feet off the ground. 'To be that good — well, excuse me, to be that great — and she still keeps breaking barriers,' Adebayo said. 'To be able to see that just one time and hopefully get a picture with her, it'd mean a lot because she's done a lot for not only the faces of us but for her sport as a whole.' U.S.
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