Steph Curry The U.S. men’s basketball team won its first Olympic gold medal as it defeated France at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Curry led Team USA to a 98-87 victory over France in the men’s basketball final at Bercy Arena on Saturday, Aug. 10, and hit four 3-pointers in the final minutes. The 36-year-old four-time NBA champion finished with 24 points and five assists.
Curry struggled with his shooting as the finals began. Guardian On Saturday, “the rhythm, the avalanche came.” The 2024 Paris Olympics will likely be Curry’s first and only Olympics.
“In that moment, your mind goes blank. You don’t care about the setting or the script or anything. It’s just a shot,” Curry said. The New York Times One of his three-pointers after the game. “Thankfully, that one went in and it settled us down, and after that it was all about rhythm and flow and confidence.”
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The win marks the fifth straight Olympic gold medal for the U.S. men’s basketball team. It was the fourth Olympic medal for LeBron James, who finished with 14 points, six rebounds and 10 assists. Meanwhile, Kevin Durant He became the first male athlete to win four gold medals in any team sport. Durant and Devin Booker I got 15 points.
Steph Curry and Lebron James.
(Photo: Jari Pestelacci/Eurasia Sport Images/Getty Images)“Twice is hard to put into words,” said Booker, a two-time gold medalist. The New York Times After the game. “This experience was completely different than the first one. Not to take anything away from that experience, but the atmosphere, obviously Steph and LeBron joining, this experience is incomparable to any other experience in my life.”
Team USA’s gold medal win came after a near upset in the semifinals against Serbia, which the U.S. narrowly won 95-91 on Thursday, Aug. 8.
As Team USA heads to the 2024 Paris Olympics, American athletes have already made an impression at the Summer Games. The 2024 Olympics opened on Friday, July 26, with a spectacular outdoor opening ceremony on the Seine River, featuring performances by Celine Dion and Lady Gaga.
Serbia led most of the game, at one point by 13 points, but Team USA pulled ahead in the fourth quarter. Lebron James had a triple-double (16 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists) and Curry had 36 points on nine 3-pointers.
“You have to win the hard way. We preached that all fourth quarter,” James said after the Serbia game. “We knew it was going to be tough. We knew Serbia was going to give us everything they had. Kudos to Serbia.”
