Many All-Star and All-NBA players have shown interest in the possibility of playing for the US team, following in the footsteps of LeBron James to form a “revenge squad” at the 2024 Olympics.

The US team’s poor performance at the FIBA World Cup 2023 seems to have motivated many NBA stars to play for the national team. Starting off with none other than LeBron James, the player who can be considered the “big brother” in the current tournament. Reputable journalist Shams Charania of The Athletic newspaper reported that LeBron plans to play for the US team at the Paris Olympics taking place next summer.

 

Besides the “king”, there are two other superstars, Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant, promising to create the highest quality frame of this decade for the US team. It seems that with LeBron James standing up for the campaign and the likely participation of Stephen Curry along with Kevin Durant, many other American stars are also interested in Olympic basketball.

 

Journalists Shams Charania and Joe Vardon revealed more through The Athletic about a number of names “of special interest and expected to attend the Olympics” including: Bigman Anthony Davis (Los Angeles Lakers), “descendant of Kobe ” Devin Booker (Phoenix Suns) or defender duo Damian Lillard (Blazers) and De’Aaron Fox (Sacramento Kings).

 

A former teammate of LeBron James who appeared in many reunion rumors last summer, Kyrie Irving, also wants to return to the team.There is still a lot of time and external factors may affect the above top NBA superstars reaching the Olympics. One of them is what happens in the 2023-24 NBA season (starting at the end of next October).

 

We don’t know how things will turn out, just know that the 2024 Olympics will likely be the last chance for fans to see LeBron or Curry play for the national team. At that time, the duo will be 39 and 36 years old, respectively.