PARIS — The USA Basketball experience can bring together younger players who look up to aging icons, turn former storied rivals into co-captains and foster future NBA pairings that can reshape the league.
This iteration of Team USA that is here in Paris, preparing to defend the gold medal once again, beginning with Sunday’s game against Serbia (11:15 a.m. ET), also is about reunions.
Chiefly, the two leading men from the last team to win consecutive NBA titles are again teammates for the first time in five years — since that moment in the summer of 2019 when Kevin Durant decided he didn’t want to play on Steph Curry’s team anymore.
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