The super stars Lebron James and Stephen Curry along with other great NBA players, would be willing to play for the United States in the Paris 2024 Olympic Gamesas reported on Monday by various media outlets.
This is due to the Los Angeles Lakers star’s call for Golden State point guard and Phoenix Suns forward Kevin Durant to be part of the team.
Lebron Jamesa two-time Olympic champion, has been recruiting other stars of the NBA for the US to win Olympic gold for the fifth consecutive time, according to The Athletic.
For its part, Curry He has expressed his desire to play on the Olympic team guided by his coach at the Golden State Warriors, Steve Kerr, ESPN reported.
The news comes a day after the United States team finished in a discreet fourth place in the 2023 Basketball World Cup, played in Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines, which Germany surprisingly won.
Germany had beaten the United States in the semifinals, which lost to Canada in the third-place match.
Lebron James38, led the United States to Olympic gold in Beijing in 2008 and London in 2012, but has not played with the national team since.
He was also part of the team that could only win the bronze medal in Athens-2004, the first with NBA players – they have participated since Barcelona 1992 – that did not win the title.
According to press reports, LeBron James has called Curry and Kevin Durant in order to convince them to play in Paris 2024.
Durant, of the Phoenix Suns, who will turn 35 at the end of this month, is a three-time Olympic champion, having played in London-2012, Rio de Janeiro-2016 and Tokyo-2020.
Curry, For his part, he has never played for the US Olympic team, but he won the 2010 and 2014 world championships.
According to The Athletic, LeBron would also have recruited his Lakers teammate, power forward Anthony Davis, Draymond Green from Golden State and Jayson Tatum from the Boston Celtics.
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