superstars LeBron James and Stephen Curry Like other great NBA players, willing to play for Team USA 2024 Paris Olympicsmultiple media outlets reported on Monday.
This comes as the Los Angeles Lakers star invites Golden State Warriors point guard and Phoenix Suns forward Kevin Durant to join the team.
LeBron JamesThe two-time Olympic champion has been recruiting other stars NBA Team USA won its fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal, The Athletic reported.
In itself, curry According to ESPN, he said he hopes to join the Olympic team under the guidance of Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr.
The news comes a day after the United States finished fourth at the 2023 Basketball World Cup, held in Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines, with Germany surprisingly winning.
The German team defeated the United States in the semifinals, but the United States lost to Canada in the third-place match.
LeBron JamesThe 38-year-old led the U.S. team to gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics, but has not represented the national team since then.
He was also part of the team that won only a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics, the first team of NBA players to fail to win a championship since the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
According to media reports, LeBron James has called Curry and Kevin Durant to convince them to play in Paris in 2024.
durant, The Phoenix Suns player, who turns 35 at the end of the month, is a three-time Olympic champion who competed in London 2012, Rio de Janeiro 2016 and Tokyo 2020.
curry, For his part, he never played for the U.S. Olympic team, but he won world championships in 2010 and 2014.
LeBron will also recruit his Lakers teammate and power forward Anthony Davis, Golden State Warriors’ Draymond Green and Boston Celtics’ Jayson Tatum, according to The Athletic.