LeBron James, Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, but also Joel Embiid or Jayson Tatum. USA Basketball has already selected 11 of the 12 players who will try to restore the image of their selection.
The 12th and final place in the selection has not yet been allocated. The Americans finished the 2023 World Cup in a pitiful 4th place, by retaining the Olympic title, which did not escape to the Americans since their bronze medal in 2004 in Athens, where Argentina was crowned. It will be the first time since 2004 that the U.S. has not won an Olympic medal in the men's basketball tournament. It is the second time in the history of the Games that the Americans have failed to win a medal in a men's competition. The last time was in 1988, when they were beaten in the quarter-finals by the Soviet Union, who won the gold medal. It was the last time that the United States did not win a gold medal in any of the Olympic Games.