Team USA’s men’s basketball team will open it’s competition in the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday against France in the men’s Group A preliminary round. The team is the three-time defending gold-medal winner, but it has its work cut out for it at the Games.
The U.S. men’s team is led by San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich — who took over coaching the men’s national team for Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski in October 2015 — along with Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and Lloyd Pierce, the former Atlanta Hawks coach who’s now an assistant with the Indiana Pacers.
In exhibition events leading up to the Tokyo Olympics, Team USA’s men’s team had back-to-back losses to first to Nigeria and then to Australia before beating Argentina and Spain.
Here’s a look at Team USA’s men’s basketball roster for the Tokyo Olympics. The team’s first game is against France on Sunday, July 25 at 8 a.m. ET.
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