This blog is now closed, thanks for joining us. There were the live updates from the 2024 Paris Olympics men’s basketball gold medal game between USA and France in Paris on Saturday, August 10.
This blog is now closed, thanks for joining us. There were the live updates from the 2024 Paris Olympics men’s basketball gold medal game between USA and France in Paris on Saturday, August 10.
- The United States won their fifth straight Olympic men’s basketball crown on Saturday, holding off a battling France 98-87 to take their tally of Olympic golds to 17.
- In a rematch of the Tokyo Olympics final three years ago, LeBron James and the US team stacked with NBA stars once again proved too much for France’s sensational Rookie of the Year Victor Wembanyama and his teammates.
- Stephen Curry led Team USA with 24 points, including going 4-from-4 on three-pointers in the last three minutes of the contest.
- Team USA have now won 17 of the 21 Olympic gold medals in the tournament’s history.
- Team USA’s LeBron James was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the Olympic tournament.