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USA Basketball announces Olympic team roster

Kevin Durant heads up the group of 12 players comprising the 2021 U.S. Men’s National Team.

Led by now three-time Olympian Kevin Durant (Brooklyn Nets), USA Basketball unveiled its official 12-member U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball Team.

USA Olympic Team Roster
Player NBA team
Bam Adebayo Miami Heat
Bradley Beal* Washington Wizards
Devin Booker Phoenix Suns
Kevin Durant Brooklyn Nets
Jerami Grant Detroit Pistons
Draymond Green Golden State Warriors
Jrue Holiday Milwaukee Bucks
Keldon Johnson** San Antonio Spurs
Zach LaVine Chicago Bulls
Damian Lillard Portland Trail Blazers
Kevin Love* Cleveland Cavaliers
JaVale McGee** Denver Nuggets
Khris Middleton Milwaukee Bucks
Jayson Tatum Boston Celtics

* = Bradley Beal and Kevin Love will not participate in the Tokyo Olympics
** = Keldon Johnson and JaVale McGee will replace Beal and Love

The USA coaching staff is led by head coach Gregg Popovich (San Antonio Spurs) with assistant coaches Steve Kerr (Golden State Warriors), Lloyd Pierce and Jay Wright (Villanova University) and Jerry Colangelo serving as the USA Men’s National Team managing director.

“I’m happy for the selected players and looking forward to having the opportunity to work with this wonderful group when practice gets underway on July 6 in Las Vegas,” Popovich said. “I’m excited to represent the United States in our quest to earn a gold medal in Tokyo.”

“USA Basketball selects players to represent our country in international competition with the skills, character, experience, and desire to win,” said retired Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the USA Basketball Board of Directors.. “We build teams that are versatile and resilient in the short, intense competitions we face. We’re fortunate that this group of elite athletes has volunteered to represent us in Tokyo this summer.”

With his selection to the U.S. Olympic Team, Durant becomes just the fourth United States male basketball player selected to three or more Olympic teams. Carmelo Anthony (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016) has represented and medaled for a USA men’s record four Olympics, while LeBron James (2004, 2008, 2012) and David Robinson (1988, 1992, 1996) each have three Olympic medals in as many appearances.

The U.S. men have collected a medal in all 18 Olympics in which they have competed, including 15 gold medals, one silver and two bronze medals. The American men own an impressive 138-5 (.965 winning percentage) all-time record in Olympic action. Since NBA players began representing the United States in 1992, the USA is 53-3 in seven Olympics, capturing six gold medals and one bronze medal. The USA currently enjoys a 25-game Olympic win streak that dates back to the bronze medal game of the 2004 Athens Olympics.

The rescheduled Summer Olympic Games are being held July 23-Aug. 8 in Tokyo, Japan. Twelve nations will compete in the Olympic men’s basketball competition that will be held at the Saitama Super Arena. In addition to host Japan, nations qualified for the Tokyo Olympics men’s basketball competition include Argentina, Australia, France, Iran, Nigeria, Spain and the United States.

Men’s basketball preliminary play at the Olympics, which will see the 12 teams divided into three groups of four teams each, will be held July 25-Aug. 2. The quarterfinals, featuring teams placed first and second in each preliminary group and the two best third-placed teams, is scheduled for Aug. 3. Semifinal action will be played on Aug. 5. The gold and bronze medal games are scheduled for Aug. 7.

The draw for the Tokyo Olympics men’s basketball competition was held Feb. 2, and the U.S. was drawn into Group A alongside 2019 FIBA World Cup bronze medalist France, 2017 Asia Cup runner-up Iran, and the to-be-determined winner of the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Canada. The American men will open Olympic preliminary round play on July 25, against France (8 a.m. EDT), then will play Iran on July 28 (12:40 a.m. EDT) and will close out preliminary play on July 31 (8:00 a.m. EDT) versus the winner of the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Canada.

A draw will take place following the conclusion of the group phase to determine the pairings of the quarterfinals. The winners of the groups and the second-placed team with the best result from the Group Phase are placed in one pot (D), while the two remaining second-placed teams and two best third-placed teams in another pot (E). Teams from the same group in the Group Phase cannot be drawn against each other in the quarterfinals. This stage of the competition is played in a knockout format, and the draw will produce an Olympic bracket for the road to the gold medal.

To be crowned Olympic champion in 2021, a team has to play six games – three in the group phase and three in the Final Phase (quarterfinals, semifinals, gold medal game), instead of eight games as in past Olympics.

USA Olympic basketball roster: Kevin Durant, Damian Lillard headline 2021 U.S. men's team for Tokyo

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The U.S. men's national basketball team is looking to win a fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal. The Americans disappointed at the 2018 FIBA World Cup, finishing seventh after seeing their 78-game winning streak end in an exhibition against Australia.

Three years later, Team USA's 12-man squad is looking a lot stronger ahead of the Tokyo Games than it did for the World Cup.

Only two players from the World Cup roster are on the 2021 U. S. men's basketball roster: Jayson Tatum and Khris Middleton. The other 10 players include some of the NBA's finest, most notably Kevin Durant, who starred at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics for Team USA.

Here's a look at the U.S. men's national basketball team's roster ahead of the Summer Games, which will start Friday.

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USA Olympic men's basketball roster

Kevin Durant and Damian Lillard headline the 12-man roster for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. Two players have previous Olympic experience: Durant and Draymond Green.

Name Team
Bam Adebayo Miami Heat
Devin Booker Phoenix Suns
Kevin Durant Brooklyn Nets
Jerami Grant Detroit Pistons
Draymond Green Golden State Warriors
Jrue Holiday Milwaukee Bucks
Keldon Johnson* San Antonio Spurs
Zach LaVine Chicago Bulls
Damian Lillard Portland Trail Blazers
JaVale McGee* Denver Nuggets
Khris Middleton Milwaukee Bucks
Jayson Tatum Boston Celtics

* Replacing Bradley Beal (health and safety protocols) and Kevin Love (injury recovery)

Who coaches the U.

S. men's basketball team?

Team USA has a star-studded coaching staff that is headed by longtime Spurs coach Gregg Popovich. Warriors coach Steve Kerr, Pacers assistant coach Lloyd Pierce and Villanova coach Jay Wright are his assistants.

Jerry Colangelo is the team's managing director. Colangelo is a four-time NBA Executive of the Year winner and coached the Suns in two different stints, compiling a 59-60 record. 

Name Team
Gregg Popovich San Antonio Spurs
Steve Kerr Golden State Warriors
Lloyd Pierce Indiana Pacers
Jay Wright Villanova University

Team USA basketball at the Olympics

The U.S. men have been incredibly successful in basketball; they have taken home gold from each of the last three Olympic Games. The last time they failed to win gold was at the 2004 Athens Games.

Team USA has medaled in men's basketball 18 times. Fifteen of those medals are gold, two are bronze and one is silver. The team didn't participate in the 1980 Olympics held in Moscow as the United States boycotted them because of the Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan.

Year Site Result
1936 Berlin Gold
1948 London Gold
1952 Oslo Gold
1956 Melbourne Gold
1960 Rome Gold
1964 Tokyo Gold
1968 Mexico City Gold
1972 Munich Silver
1976 Montreal Gold
1980 Moscow Qualified but DNP
1984 Los Angeles Gold
1988 Seoul Bronze
1992 Barcelona Gold
1996 Atlanta Gold
2000 Sydney Gold
2004 Athens Bronze
2008 Beijing Gold
2012 London Gold
2016 Rio de Janeiro Gold

Team USA basketball 2021 Olympics schedule

Team USA is one of 12 teams to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. It will be playing in Group A. Its group-play opponents will be the Czech Republic, France and Iran.

Date Game Time (ET) TV channel
July 25 USA vs. France 8 a.m. Peacock
July 28 USA vs. Iran 12:40 a.m. Peacock
July 31 USA vs. Czech Republic 8 a.m. Peacock
Aug. 3 Men's basketball quarterfinals TBD TBD
Aug. 5 Men's basketball semifinals TBD TBD
Aug. 6 Men's basketball gold-medal game 10:30 p.m. NBC, fuboTV
Aug. 7 Men's basketball bronze-medal game 7 a.m. TBD

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2024 | Basketball: Olympic Qualification Rules

The basketball tournament at the Paris Olympics promises to be full of surprises. The US women's team has been unbeaten in gold medals since the Atlanta Games, and the men's team since Beijing 2008, but the level of other teams has grown significantly in recent years. Will we have new Olympic champions?

We will know the answer to this question only in the summer of 2024, but it will be possible to form an opinion about the capabilities of the teams during the international competitions and Olympic qualification tournaments that will be held in the next two years. The first of these will be FIBA ​​Women's World Basketball Championship, which kicks off on September 22.

Answering basic questions about basketball qualification for the Paris Olympics.

How many basketball players will go to Paris 2024?

A total of 288 players (24 teams) will compete in the basketball tournament at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The number of players is the same for men and women - 144 athletes of each gender . Each tournament will feature 12 commands .

France reserves one quota for each gender as the host country . However, the final decision on these quotas will be made by the central bureau of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) on June 30, 2023. If the Central Bureau decides not to directly award the quota to the host country, then the number of teams that can qualify in the normal way will be increased.

What does qualifying for Paris 2024 consist of?

The qualification process will differ significantly for men and women. Let's talk about the most important things.

Men

FIBA ​​Basketball World Cup 2023: Seven Quotas

The first competition to award direct tickets to Paris 2024 will be the 2023 FIBA ​​Basketball World Cup. The tournament will be held from August 25 to September 10 in the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia.

In total, seven quotas will be played within the framework of the championship. They will be awarded to the best teams from the respective continents according to the following distribution:

  • Two for America
  • Two for Europe
  • One for Africa
  • One for Asia
  • One for Oceania
Olympic qualification tournaments FIBA: Four scotes

The remaining Four scores will be distributed through Olympic Touric. Each of these tournaments will consist of two rounds: Pre-Qualifiers and Qualifiers .

Men's Olympic pre-qualification tournaments

Total 40 teams will compete in pre-qualification tournaments. They will be selected based on the qualification results for the last World Championship. 28 of them are teams that reached the second round of qualification, but failed to qualify for the championship itself. The remaining 12 are the highest-placed teams among those who failed to qualify for the second round of qualification.

Five teams from the pre-qualifiers will advance to the qualifiers.

In the pre-qualifiers, teams will be divided on a continental basis:

  • Eight teams from Africa (one will advance to the qualifying tournament)
  • Eight teams from America (one will advance to the qualifying tournament)
  • Eight teams from Asia (including Oceania) ) (one to qualify)
  • 16 teams from Europe (one to qualify)

Men's Olympic Qualifiers

Total 24 teams representing all continents are eligible to participate in the Olympic qualification tournaments.

There will be four tournaments in total, each of which will feature six teams. The winner of each of them will receive a ticket to the Olympic Games.

19 teams are invited to participate, which at the 2023 World Cup ranked the highest among those who did not directly qualify for the Games. Participating teams will be divided as follows:

  • One team from Africa
  • One team from America
  • One command from Asia
  • 16 The remaining commands

The remaining 5 commands are selected according to the results of pre-qualification tournaments:

  • One command from Africa
  • one American team
  • One Asian team
  • Two European teams

Women

2022 FIBA ​​World Championship: one quota

The first competition to qualify for a direct ticket to Paris 2024 will be the 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup, which will take place from 22 September to 1 October in Australia. The winner of the championship will receive one quota .

FIBA ​​Olympic Qualifiers: Eleven Quotas

The remaining 11 Quotas will be distributed through the Olympic Qualifiers. Each of these tournaments will consist of two rounds: pre-qualifiers and qualifiers.

Women's Olympic Pre-Qualification Tournaments

Total 22 teams will compete in pre-qualifier tournaments. There will be three such tournaments - one in Asia, one in America (each of which will play four teams) and one in Africa (which will play six teams). The top two teams from each tournament will advance to the Olympic Qualifiers.

The participating teams will be selected based on the results of the Continental Cups to be held in 2023, according to the following principle:

  • Top 6 teams from Africa
  • Top 8 teams from America
  • Top 8 teams from Asia (including Oceania)

In addition, the winner of the World Cup (if it is not a European team) will also take part in the pre-qualification tournaments.

Women's Olympic Qualifiers

Total 16 teams representing all continents/geographic regions will participate in the qualification tournaments. There will be four such tournaments - four teams in each. Each continent/geographic region will be required to host one of the qualifying tournaments.

Both the host country team and the 2022 FIBA ​​Women's World Cup winner team will compete in the Olympic Qualifiers. According to the results of the tournaments, 12 teams, including the team of France and the team of world champions - 2022, will receive the coveted Olympic tickets.

The following teams will eventually qualify for the qualifiers:

  • Two teams from Africa (qualified through the African pre-qualifier) ​​
  • Four teams from America (qualified through the American pre-qualifier) ​​
  • Four teams from Asia/Oceania (qualified through the Asian pre-qualifier) ​​
  • Six teams from Europe (France + top five teams from the last European Women's Basketball Championship) ).

The FIBA ​​Central Bureau reserves the right to confirm the Women's Olympic Pre-Qualification Tournament until June 1, 2023. In the event that the Olympic Pre-Qualification Tournaments are not held, an appropriate number of teams from each continent will qualify for the Olympic Qualification Tournaments directly through the 2023 Continental Championships.

When will the Paris 2024 basketball tournament take place?

The 2024 Paris Basketball Tournament will run from July 27 to August 11, 2024 .

As of today, the group stage is scheduled to take place at Stade Pierre Maurois in Lille and the play-off stage at Arena Bercy in Paris , but the venues have not yet been finalized.

Which basketball players to follow in Paris 2024?

Men

Team USA will come to Paris as the favorite. They have become champions of the last four Olympic Games, including Tokyo 2020 where they defeated France in the final. Led by San Antonio Spurs legend Greg Popovich , the Stars and Stripes won the title with a constellation of NBA stars including Kevin Durant, Zach Lavin, Draymond Green and Jason Tatum .

The coach of the Golden State Warriors is now on the coaching bridge of the national team Steve Kerr , and we have every chance to see his most star player - four-time NBA champion Stephen Curry - in the team. Especially as the latter stated that even with all his titles, he is "still not good enough" as he "should play for Coach Kerr in Paris 2024".

France will also aim for the gold medal at home after a strong performance in the Tokyo 2020 tournament final. Rudy Gobert and Evan Fournier is among the team's all-stars, and with NBA center Joel Embiid recently granted French citizenship, the home team may well have what it takes to succeed.

Among the strong contenders for the podium is also the Slovenian team , which reached the semi-finals in Tokyo 2020. They include three-time NBA All-Star point guard Luka Doncic .

Women

Women's tournament dominance 9Team USA 0005 is even more absolute - they won gold at the last seven Olympics. Since women's basketball was included in the 90,005 Montreal 1976 Games, 90,006 American women have won the title 9 out of 12 times.

At the Tokyo 2020 tournament, WNBA stars Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi won their fifth Olympic title and beat another legend, Teresa Edwards , became the only basketball players who managed to do so.

Bird will retire at the end of the 2022 WNBA season, but Taurasi may well go to Paris. Most recently, she became the first player over 40 in the WNBA to score 30 points in a single game. In the NBA, only Michael Jordan and Dirk Nowitzki managed to do this.

While Team USA remains the favorite to win for the eighth consecutive time, Team France is among the contenders for the podium. New York Liberty shooting guard likely to feature at home games Marine Joannes and young center Iliana Ruper .

The Belgian team, which has grown significantly in recent years thanks to the likes of Emma Misseman , may also come in as a surprise. In Tokyo 2020, the Belgians reached the quarterfinals, where they lost to hosts Japan 86-85.

The Japanese team is also worth keeping an eye on in Paris 2024 - they play some pretty attractive basketball. In major tournaments, 9 also usually performs well.0005 Australian team .

Basketball in Paris 2024. Key dates

  • September 22 - October 1, 2022: FIBA ​​World Basketball Championship among women - 2022, Australia

  • June 2023: European Basketball Championship - 2023 9000 9000

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  • August 25 - September 10, 2023: FIBA ​​World Basketball Championship among men-2023, Philippines, Japan, Indonesia

  • November 2023: Olympic Fiba Pre-Application Tournaments among women

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  • February 2024 : FIBA ​​Women's Olympic Qualifiers

  • Date to be announced: 66 Olympic qualification tournaments FIBA ​​among men 2024

  • July 8, 2024: Dyaline for applications for games

  • 26 - August 11, 2024 2024 in Paris

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2020 | Basketball: Everything You Need to Know About the

Olympic Tournament

Basketball is one of the few team sports whose history has preserved both the name of the inventor and the exact date of birth. The game, the meaning of which is to throw the ball into baskets suspended on special structures, was invented in 1892 by a Canadian school teacher James Naismith .

Basketball entered the official program of the Olympic Games in 1936 in Berlin, although it was present at the 1904 Games as a demonstration discipline. The first Olympic women's basketball tournament was held at 1976 in Montreal.

Schedule and dates

25 July - 8 August. Full schedule here.

The basketball tournament is traditionally one of the longest at the Olympics. It will begin the day after the opening ceremony, with the final match of the women's tournament taking place in Tokyo on the closing day of the Games.

Medal sets: 2

Competitions: Men's and Women's Basketball Tournament

Arena

The Olympic men's and women's basketball tournaments will be held at Saitama Super Arena, located in the suburbs of Tokyo, with a capacity of 21,000 spectators. One of the most modern sports arenas in Japan has already hosted many of the largest sports events - in particular, the world championships in basketball and figure skating.

Rules and structure of the tournament

Basketball is played by two teams, each of which can have five players on the court at the same time. The goal of the game is to throw the ball into the opponent's ring, which is at a height of 305 centimeters. Accurate throws have different values: one point is awarded to a team for hitting without resistance from the free throw line after an opponent foul, two points for hitting a field goal, three points for hitting a field goal from a long distance (from behind an arc located at a distance 675 centimeters from the ring). The size of the court in this sport is 28 by 15 meters. A basketball match consists of 4 periods of 10 minutes. In case of a draw in regular time, an additional period of 5 minutes is assigned to determine the winner.

The Tokyo Olympics for men and women will each have 12 teams, and the formula for the men's and women's tournaments is the same. At the preliminary stage, the teams are divided into three groups of four teams, and according to the results of round-robin tournaments in groups of two best teams and two more best third-placed teams advance to the playoffs. Quarter-final pairs and the entire playoff bracket will be based on the ranking of teams based on the results of group tournaments.

The success of the Russians and who to follow in Tokyo

In the entire history, the Russian team was able to win Olympic medals only once - it happened in 2012 in London, when the Russian team became the third. But the basketball players of the USSR national team under the guidance of legendary coaches won the gold of the Olympics twice: in 1972 in Munich, the team Vladimir Kondrashin won the legendary final against the US team with the famous decisive hit Alexander Belov in the last second of the game, and in 1988 in Seoul the gold medals were won by the USSR national team, led by Alexander Gomelsky . In addition, the Soviet team won silver medals at the Olympics four times and bronze three times.

In the women's tournament, the basketball players of the Russian national team twice climbed the Olympic podium, in 2004 and in 2008 winning bronze medals. Their predecessors, as well as in men's competitions, have more significant achievements, and they have three victories at the Olympics. In 1976 in Montreal and in 1980 in Moscow, the USSR team won the first two women's Olympic tournaments in history, and in 19In 1992, in Barcelona, ​​the team that competed at those Games under the name "CIS United Team" won gold. Also in the asset of the women's team of the USSR, the bronze of the Olympics in Seoul in 1988.

There will be no ROC basketball teams at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo: neither men nor women could qualify for the main start of the four years.

Traditionally, at the Olympic Games of the last decades, the performance of the US team is of particular interest. Since 1992, when the best players in the world from the National Basketball Association were allowed to play in the Olympic competitions, the American Dream Team (“dream team”) has only once been left without Olympic gold - in 2004, the Argentine team won a sensational victory in Athens.


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