Will Team USA Remain At The Top in the Paris Olympics?

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🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The 2024 Olympics are just about ready to get started in Paris. And that means that from sea-to-shining-sea, American fans are preparing to see the men’s Olympic basketball team bring home gold. But, as we’ve seen in recent years, the talent gap between Team USA and the rest of the world has been closing on the hardwood. So today, ESPN NBA writer Tim Bontemps tells us if the most talented international team we’ve ever sent to the games can capture the gold against the most talented field in the history of the Olympic games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tim Bon Temps, My Man Good Times, where you at right now, playboy?
0:05.0	I'm in the Billy Cunningham room in the business offices of the Philadelphia 76ers
0:11.0	practice facility in Camden, New Jersey.
0:14.0	What's going on there?
0:16.0	Tyreuse Maxi at a press conference at 11 a.m.
0:19.0	And Paul George is having a press conference at 1 p.m.
0:22.0	So celebratory day here in Camden, Tyrese is very happy. I suspect
0:26.4	Paul George will be quite happy when we see him later today and we'll see in a few months
0:31.2	how long it takes for the Philly fans here to be mad at this team
0:34.0	because no matter how good they are they will be mad for probably large stretches of the
0:38.4	season. Well let's stick with that there are obviously expectations that have totally changed.
0:43.2	I mean, the roster not exactly overturned, but as you just mentioned, a lot of things are very different.
0:48.9	The Olympics, though, are also on the table.
0:51.7	U.S. going for the fifth straight gold medal,
0:54.0	Joel Embeed, your boy playing on the U.S. team.
0:57.2	Is there any concern at all about Embed
0:59.5	playing so many minutes of like meaningful basketball
1:02.2	this summer?
1:03.5	I don't think so.
1:04.7	I think him playing competitive basketball and playing as part of team USA is a good thing.
1:13.0	A mismatch with Boitman against Booker, the rebound for MP,
1:17.0	the out of the feed for Laplach James, and the reverse adjustment.
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