Team USA gained Olympic males’s basketball gold Saturday with a 98-87 win towards hosts France.
Stephen Curry scored a team-high 24 factors at Bercy Arena, whereas Lebron James posted a double-double with 14 factors and 10 assists.
Devin Booker and Kevin Durant every added 15 factors.
Despite Victor Wembanyama‘s 26 factors and 7 boards, to go together with Guerschon Yabusele’s 20 factors, the French nationwide staff couldn’t keep away from the loss.
Team USA have now gained 5 straight gold medals — 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 — and eight of the final 9 Olympic tournaments, choosing up their seventeenth general gold.
Since 1992, when the Olympics first allowed skilled gamers to take part, the US has claimed gold in all of the Games besides in 2004, after they settled for bronze after dropping to Argentina, which managed to seize gold and its first Olympic medal in basketball after defeating Italy 84-69.
France introduced house silver in Paris for a second-straight Olympics as they misplaced the Tokyo 2020 remaining to the US by 87-82.
– SERBIA WIN BRONZE
Earlier, Serbia upset world champions Germany 93-83 to say a 3rd Olympic medal on the similar venue in Paris.
After ending second in Atlanta in 1996 and Rio 2016, the Serbian squad gained bronze behind a triple-double from three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic, who scored 19 factors, 12 rebounds and 11 assists.
Franz Wagner was the excessive scorer for Germany with 18 factors and 9 boards.
Source: www.anews.com.tr