The U.S. males’s basketball group is golden once more after defeating France in back-to-back gold medal video games on the Olympics. The USA got here out on prime Saturday within the newest matchup successful 98-87 at Bercy Enviornment in Paris.
The USA has received 5 straight gold (2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024) medals and eight of the final 9 in males’s basketball.
With the win, Kevin Durant turns into the primary male athlete to win 4 golds in a group sport. Prior to now three Olympic gold medal video games, Durant led all gamers with scoring. That might not be the case in Paris on Saturday in opposition to France, when Steph Curry shot 24 factors, together with eight three-pointers, to stroll away with a gold medal in his Olympic debut.
For an athlete on the stage of Curry, who has received NBA championships, MVPs, scoring titles, he stated successful an Olympics is “particular.”
“That was an unbelievable second,” Curry instructed NBC Olympics’ Mike Tirico. “I have been blessed to play basketball at a excessive stage for a really very long time, I do not know, this ranks very excessive by way of the joy and the sense of aid attending to the end line.”
Curry scored 60 factors within the closing two video games of the Paris Olympics, together with hitting 17 of 26 on three-pointers.
“It is proper up there with all the biggest video games of his profession, the shot-making was simply unbelievable,” stated USA coach Steve Kerr, who can be Curry’s Warriors head coach. “However beneath the circumstances, on the highway, in Paris, in opposition to France for a gold medal, that is storybook stuff, however that is what Steph does, he likes to be in storybooks.”
…that is storybook stuff, however that is what Steph does, he likes to be in storybooks.
USA males’s basketball head coach Steve Kerr
The U.S. group could have been stacked with superstars, however so was France. Victor Wembanyama, 20, the primary total decide within the 2023 draft was one of many leaders on the French group, which additionally included Evan Fournier and Rudy Gobert. Wembanyama scored a game-high 26 factors.
France will take residence the silver medal for a second-straight Olympics. Saturday’s sport was a rematch of the finals from Tokyo when the U.S. received 87-82.
The USA beat Serbia 95-91 in a detailed semifinal sport to advance to the ultimate in opposition to France.
French President Emmanuel Macron and his spouse Brigitte Macron had been within the star-studded viewers and had been seen speaking with U.S. second gentleman Doug Emhoff. Macron additionally talked with and took selfies with Tonight Present host Jimmy Fallon.
