Longtime rivals LeBron James and Stephen Curry will star in a U.S. Olympic men’s basketball roster filled with some of the best players of the past 10 years, according to ESPN.
Sources told ESPN that Team USA is finalizing its roster for this summer’s Olympic Games in Paris and that it will include four NBA MVPs: James, Curry, Kevin Durant and the title’s current holder, Joel Embiid, who became a US citizen in 2022.
The roster will also reportedly include All-Stars Anthony Davis, Devin Booker, Anthony Edwards, Jayson Tatum, Jrue Holiday, Bam Adebayo and Tyrese Haliburton. The team’s general manager, Grant Hill, is keeping one spot open before the roster is assembled for training camp in July following the conclusion of this year’s NBA Finals.
The team will be led by Steve Kerr, who coached Curry and Durant with the Golden State Warriors.
Team USA will be a heavy favorite to retain their title and have won the last four men’s events at the Olympics. But the talent in international basketball has grown tremendously in recent years and they will face competition from teams including two-time MVP Nikola Jokic’s Serbia, a stacked Canada team, Germany, which defeated the US en route to winning the 2023 Fiba World Cup, and host France, led by the 7-foot-4 Victor Wembanyama, who set the NBA on fire in his rookie NBA season.