Paris 2024 Olympics: LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant… discover the terrifying team that USA Basketball should send for the Games

LeBron James et Kevin Durant seront les deux têtes d’affiche de l’équipe américaine de basket à Paris. dpa – Friso Gentsch

LeBron James, Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, but also Joel Embiid or Jayson Tatum: the biggest stars of the NBA will form, as expected, a new "Dream Team" for the basketball tournament of the Paris Olympic Games this summer, American specialist media confirmed on Tuesday.

According to ESPN, USA Basketball has already selected 11 of the 12 players who will try to restore the image of their selection, which finished the 2023 World Cup in a pitiful 4th place, by retaining the Olympic title, which did not escape the Americans since their bronze medal in 2004 in Athens, where Argentina was crowned.

LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant in the headliners

Alongside Lakers superstar LeBron James, who had several times expressed his wish to attract big names from the NBA to Paris, Warriors fullback Stephen Curry will participate in his first Olympic tournament.

They will find Phoenix winger Kevin Durant, present at the Games continuously since 2012, and a fourth NBA MVP (best player, in 2023) in the person of Philadelphia pivot Joël Embiid , recently naturalized.

Lakers interior Anthony Davis and Miami Bam Adebayo, Boston players Jayson Tatum and Jrue Holiday, Durant's Phoenix teammate Devin Booker, and youngsters Anthony Edwards and Tyrese Haliburton, the only survivors of the 2023 World Cup team, will make up the rest of the squad coached by Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr.

Kawhi Leonard should complete the group

The 12th and last place in the selection has not yet been allocated. According to The Athletic, it could return to Los Angeles Clippers winger Kawhi Leonard