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The USA Men's Basketball Team on August 10, 2008. The men's national basketball team of the United States won the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. They qualified for the Olympics by winning the 2007 FIBA Americas Championship held in Las Vegas, Nevada.
All games were held at the Beijing Olympic Basketball Gymnasium. The United States, nicknamed the "Redeem Team", defeated Spain in the gold medal game, finishing the tournament undefeated and winning the gold medal for the first time since 2000, while Argentina, the defending Olympic champions who lost to the U.S. in the semifinals, won the ...
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.
She was a member of USA Under 18 Team that won gold in Argentina on July 23–27, 2008. Nneka tallied 20 points and 15 rebounds in the championship game of the Under-18 FIBA Americas. She led team USA to a 5–0 record while leading the team in scoring and rebounding. She was named MVP of this tournament in Argentina.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he led the United States men's basketball team, commonly known as the "Redeem Team", in scoring and helped them capture the gold medal. In the 2008–09 season , Wade led the league in both total points (2,386) and points per game (30.2), the latter stat earning him his lone NBA scoring title .
NBA All-Rookie First Team: 2008; NBA Rookie Challenge MVP: 2009; USA Basketball. Cited from USA Basketball's Kevin Durant page unless noted otherwise. [253] 4× Olympic gold medalist: 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024; Olympics Most Valuable Player: 2020; FIBA World Cup gold medalist: 2010; FIBA World Cup Most Valuable Player: 2010; 3× USA Basketball ...
USA Today Boys Basketball Ranking #1: St. Anthony High School (New Jersey), Jersey City, New Jersey; USA Today Girls Basketball Ranking #1: Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, San Francisco, California; NCAA (Philippines) Juniors: San Sebastian College-Recoletos def. Colegio de San Juan de Letran, 2–0 in the finals series
Nash also founded the Jim Jennings Memorial Endowment Fund, established in honour of a volunteer staff member at Santa Clara University who served the basketball team for more than 20 years. [ 15 ] Elsewhere, Nash sponsors the Steve Nash Youth Basketball League in British Columbia, which has grown over 10,000 participants. [ 13 ]