Eric Gay/AP Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James may go after their third gold. Stephen Curry showed up to register his interest in playing in his first. “That’s how you have to keep the culture going and thank goodness that these guys have recommitted each time”, Krzyzewski said. Along with Paul, they could become the first men’s basketball three-time gold medalists.
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Because Coach K desires to play small ball, and it best fits this roster to have LeBron at the power forward spot, I’m eliminating all the traditional 4’s from consideration. Like James, the fact that Durant and Anthony feel compelled to show up and play only reinforces what was evident throughout the week: Wearing the Team USA uniform is still special to them.
I’d prefer someone who doesn’t mind chasing around a guard, and who would play well off others on the offensive end. Even though he’s battled a number of injuries since, the 29-year-old center seems ready to give up part of another summer next year. Pretty much everything that we do, for the most part, especially with Team USA, we kind of do together. They eventually won two National Basketball Association championships.
“What we decided to do was try to change culture, and once that developed, it began to snowball”, Colangelo said during ESPN 2’s telecast of Team USA’s scrimmage on Thursday night. However when Michael Jordan said last week that, “I would beat Lebron in my prime”, I am sure he is right but it would be hard to tell.
“We made a decision, our staff, that rather than having a minicamp in the true sense of the word, and bring 18 or 20 players here, and then ask six or eight or 10 to go home – that didn’t sit well with us”, Colangelo said.
The remaining players were a mix of those who haven’t cracked a U.S. roster yet to those who have been done it multiple times.
Olympic Games Executive Director Christophe Dubi said the committee will not be conducting viral tests of Olympic waterways ahead of the 2016 games. “We’re going back to our game plan of ’08, when we actually announced our team before we started our camp”.
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Russell Westbrook is an intense individual. “But like I said, the culture that they’ve created now, the guys take a lot of pride in it, they’re taking pride in our country and I just think it’s fantastic”. Well see where Im at after the season..
