LeBron, Steph, Wemby, and the Greatest Olympic Basketball Game of All Time

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

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4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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This week, we have a particular installment of hoops talk with my friend Arya Shirazi, where we talk about Olympic basketball, Team USA, their incredible final against France, and the future of international basketball. We talk about Steph Curry, Lebron James, and Victor Wembanyama and we theorize about where it could all be going.

Zirin, What Was the Paris Olympics?

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/paris-olympics/

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1:06.6	Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast.
1:08.7	I'm Dave Ziren.
1:29.2	We are here this week with the Hoops savant, Aria Shirazi. Why are we talking to Aria about hoops? Well, unless you've been living under Don the Rock, Morocco, you would know that the Olympic hoops was unreal.
1:36.8	The finals, men's and women's, both playing against the home country of France in front of just absolutely raucous crowds.
1:46.5	98 to 87, the men beat France for the gold, but that score does not even begin to say how close that game was,
1:52.0	down to a possession late in the fourth quarter with the U.S. dribbling down the court.
1:58.2	I mean, that was just total like gripping your chair action.
2:03.2	And then the women win against France, 67 to 66.
2:12.2	Now, on the flip side of that, that game wasn't quite as close as it sounds because the U.S. women were in control for much of the game, and there was just this wild flurry by France at the end
2:20.1	that was one of the most fun basketball sequences I've ever seen,
2:23.8	and they would have actually tied it at the end by the great Gabby Williams,
2:28.1	except she had, you know, Kevin Durant style.
2:30.6	She had a foot on the line down three, and she scored at the buzzer, and it was two,
2:37.0	which has got to be the worst way to lose.
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