Tag: US Olympic

James, Embiid, Curry headline star-studded US Olympic squad

LeBron James, Stephen Curry and reigning NBA Most Valuable Player Joel Embiid were named among a 41-strong player pool for the USA’s 2024 Olympics basketball roster on Tuesday. The star-studded roster will be whittled down to a 12-man squad for this summer’s Olympics in Paris, where the US will be chasing a fifth consecutive gold medal. The provisional player pool contains 28 players who have represented the USA at an Olympics or FIBA World Cup, […]

NBA: Green court date moved up to avoid Olympic clash

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A Michigan judge agreed on Wednesday to bring forward a pre-trial conference for Draymond Green, the NBA star and US Olympic team member accused of striking a university football player at a restaurant at the weekend. Documents posted on Thursday on the webpage of the 54B District Court in East Lansing, Michigan, showed that Green’s conference was brought forward from August 4, the day before the Rio de Janeiro […]