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LeBron James (USA, in white) attempts a shot against China's Yao Ming at the 2008 Olympics. Basketball is a sport contested at the Summer Olympic Games. A men's basketball tournament was first held at the 1904 Olympics as a demonstration; it has been held at every Summer Olympics since 1936.
The USA Basketball Men's National Team, [2] commonly known as Team USA and the United States men's national basketball team, is the basketball team representing the United States. It is the most successful men's team in international competition, winning medals in all twenty Olympic tournaments it has entered, including seventeen golds.
In 2020, the men's tournament will have a new qualification system. After the 2019 FIBA World Cup, seven teams will qualify directly: the top two European and American teams, and the top team from Africa, Asia and Oceania. The next 16 best teams from the FIBA World Cup will join the two teams from each continent at the Olympic qualifiers.
The only Olympic Games in which Team USA did not medal in men's 5x5 basketball was in the 1980 Moscow Olympics, when the U.S. boycotted the Games over the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan.
The following is a list of results of the United States men's basketball team at the Summer Olympics: 1936 Summer Olympics. Game # Opponent Result Point differential
The men's national basketball team of the United States competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, and won the gold medal.They qualified for the Olympics as one of the top two FIBA Basketball World Cup finishers from the Americas in 2023. [1]
Team USA has won gold at in men's basketball at every Summer Olympics since 2008. James is the lone active member of the 2004 Team USA Olympic basketball team, which won bronze when he was just 19.
The U.S. men’s basketball team defeated host country France on Saturday for its fifth straight Olympic gold medal, 98-87. ... The U.S. now has beaten France in eight of their nine matchups in ...