Michael Rubin on the 2024 Olympic Basketball Semifinals | Team USA vs. Serbia
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🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Michael Rubin is in studio! The Fanatics founder and CEO is with us to relive the thrilling semifinals match between USA and Serbia in the 2024 Olympic games, as well as some of his best stories with the likes of Tom Brady, Steph Curry, and LeBron James.
(00:00) We kick things off. (00:36) Michael joins us on the couch. (31:48) We go back to August 2024. (35:37) We get into the teams. (56:45) We dive into the game. (1:07.23) We score it. (1:19.34) We hit The Chill Zone presented by Coors Light to draft our Starting Five greatest jerseys of all time.
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| 0:00.0 | You got Brady to come out of retirement. |
| 0:20.8 | Look, flag football is the fastest growing sport in the world right now. I think being on the Olympic stage of 2008 is going to be great. You're going to have the best players in the NFL playing in that game. A guy like Tom Brady coming out of retirement, he's working out every day now because he wants to make sure. He wants to make sure he wins that. But he's going to have some tough, tough competition from some young bucks playing. |
| 0:22.8 | Anything to happen with Tom, Benjamin Button, Brady. |
| 0:25.6 | Anything can happen. |
| 0:26.8 | Welcome to Games with Names. |
| 0:28.5 | I'm Julian Edelman. |
| 0:30.0 | They're Jack and Kyler. |
| 0:31.4 | And we're on a mission to find the greatest game of all time. |
| 0:35.0 | And on today's episode, we are covering the 24 men's Olympic basketball semi-final, |
| 0:41.7 | Serbia versus Team USA with Fanatics CEO, Philly Legend, and a man that's probably best |
| 0:50.6 | friends with one of your favorite rappers, Michael Rubin. |
| 1:30.6 | And we're talking his wild 28 to 3 game story. He was pretty dejected, if I'm going to be honest. Yeah. Look, what's the lesson? You never give up. Period. Challenging me to compete at Fanatics Fest. Are you training for next year yet? I'm rehabbing right now. If you end up being the most pathetic patriot, that's just like, that's an embarrassment. And his best sports moment with OBJ. Odell Takkiy was like stunned. I caught the ball. He said, Rube, the only athletic thing you've ever done. And we do top five jerseys of all time in the chill zone presented by Coors, like, you gotta stick around to the end. |
| 1:31.2 | Let's go. |
| 1:34.6 | Games with Names of the Productions of IHeart Radio. |
| 1:42.7 | August 8, 24, Bersi Arena, Paris, France. |
| 1:44.9 | Down double digits in the fourth quarter. |
| 1:47.5 | We need a good old-fashioned American comeback. |
| 1:48.7 | Let's go! |
| 1:52.7 | Thank God we got Steph freaking Curry. |
| 1:58.6 | This is 2024 Olympic semifinals. Welcome to Games with names. |
| 2:12.7 | Today we are looking at the USA versus Serbia game. |
| 2:17.2 | 2004 Olympics men's semifinal, |
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