A slow start in the 2024 Paris Olympics could have been excused — or even expected — from Kevin Durant. Durant had missed a month of practice with Team USA with a calf injury, and didn’t play a second in the team’s unblemished tune-up slate. With the Americans starting their gold medal defense on Sunday against Nikola Jokic and Serbia, Durant was cleared to play and tabbed as a reserve off the bench. Anything he gave the U.S. should have been considered gravy after such a long layoff.
Instead, Durant took over the game and turned in one of the better performances in men’s Olympic basketball history. USA
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