In keeping with Shams Charania and Joe Vardon of The Athletic, Workforce USA has finalized 11 out of 12 gamers for the Paris Olympics this summer time.
Boston Celtics’ Jayson Tatum and Jrue Vacation are each named on the listing. Each Vacation and Tatum gained gold representing Workforce USA again within the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Just a few weeks in the past in an interview with PEOPLE, Jayson Tatum expressed his need to play for Workforce USA in Paris this summer time.
“I performed in Tokyo three years in the past and gained the gold medal, and that have was completely different as a result of it was nonetheless round COVID,” says Tatum, noting that “there have been no followers” on the occasions.
Tatum averaged 15.2 factors, 3.3 rebounds, and 1.2 assists in the course of the 2020 Video games.
For Vacation, his versatility and talent to protect a number of positions have all the time been appreciated by Workforce USA.
In his final Olympics video games Vacation averaged 11.8 factors, 4.8 rebounds, and three.8 assists en path to a gold medal.
Included within the star-studded listing are LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Devin Booker, Joel Embiid, Anthony Davis, Anthony Edwards, Bam Adebayo, and Tyrese Haliburton.
Again in October, Embiid determined to symbolize the Pink, White, and Blue over France and Cameroon.
Workforce USA nonetheless has the choice so as to add yet one more participant to its listing which can provide guys like Derrick White and Jaylen Brown hope that they are often on the aircraft to Paris. Each Brown and White had been included in Workforce USA’s preliminary pool of gamers that could possibly be chosen again in January.
Jaylen Brown final repped Workforce USA within the 2019 USA World Cup Workforce. The 2019 staff disenchanted ending in seventh place with a 6-2 report. White was additionally part of the World Cup staff the place he performed quarter-hour per sport averaging 5.9 factors, 1.3 rebounds, and a pair of.5 assists.
With this lineup of gamers, Workforce USA needs to be favorites to repeat as Olympic gold medal winners.
