The United States assembled a Dream Team with several of the NBA’s top stars to go for gold at the Tokyo Olympics

The United States took note of what happened to them at the 2019 China World Cup, where he presented a squad without several of the main figures of the NBA and ended up falling to seventh place, a location that also allowed him to secure a ticket to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games by being the second best American team, only behind Argentina (He was runner-up, falling against Spain in the final).

While Stephen Curry and LeBron James (preferred to focus on recovering their physique and promote Space Jam 2, a film in which he will star alongside the Looney tunes) will not go to the territory nippon, Gregg Popovich made a real Dream team to go in search of the fourth consecutive gold, after celebrating in Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016.

As reported by Shams Charania of The Athletic, the select group of 12 basketball players from the USA Team was made up of Kevin Durant (Brooklyn Nets), Damian Lillard (Portland Trail Blazers), Bradley Beal (Washington Wizards), Jayson tatum (Boston Celtics), Devin Booker (Phoenix Suns), Zach LaVine (Chicago Bulls), Kevin love (Cleveland Cavaliers), Bam Adebayo (Miami Heat), Draymond green (Golden State Warriors), Jrue Holiday (Milwaukee Bucks), Khris middleton (Milwaukee Bucks) and Jerami Grant (Detroit Pistons).

The main star of the team is Kevin Durant, who already knows what it’s like to win a gold medal at an Olympic Game. He did it in 2012 and 2016. The other winners are Kevin Love (was in London) and Draymond Green (participated in Rio).

The last two players to get off the list were James Harden (the Beard He preferred to use this time to recover from the hamstring injury that had brought him down in the playoffs) and seasoned point guard Chris Paul.

Before leaving for Japan, the United States will begin a training camp in Las Vegas on July 6, where other selected ones will participate, such as Argentina.

The Dream team will make its debut in Group A on July 25, in Saitama, against France (it was third in China). On the second day, on July 28, he will collide with the weakest cast in the area: Iran (23rd in the 2019 World Cup). The Americans will close their activity on July 31 against the winner of the Pre-Olympic Tournament of Victoria, a contest in which the Greece of Giannis Antetoukoumpo, China, Canada, Uruguay, the Czech Republic and Turkey participate.

The other teams participating in the Olympic Games? In Group B are Australia, Nigeria, the winner of the Split Pre-Olympic (Germany, Russia, Mexico, Tunisia, Croatia and Brazil) and the winner of the Belgrade Pre-Olympic (Dominican Republic, Philippines, Serbia, Puerto Rico, Italy and Senegal) . For their part, in Group C are Argentina, Japan, Spain and the winner of the Kaunas Pre-Olympic (Lithuania, South Korea, Venezuela, Poland, Slovenia and Angola).

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