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> Kawhi Leonard will fill the 12th and final spot on the U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team in Paris, I’m told.
Kawhi joins Steph Curry, LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Jayson Tatum, Joel Embiid, Devin Booker, Tyrese Haliburton, Anthony Edwards, Jrue Holiday, Bam Adebayo and Anthony Davis on Team USA
by NokCha_
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I am now expecting him to be 100% to start the series on Sunday.
Kawhi Leonard playing free basketball. I never thought I’d see the day
smh what does Gradey Dick have to do to get his respect
USA Basketball is going belt to ass this year
FIBA team went out so sad that they gave the final spot to Kahwi 😭
I guess the starting five will be:
Steph – Kawhi – LeBron – KD – Embiid.
Dayum.
oh yea this is the dream team
Imagine a USA 5 of jrue-ant-kawhi-ad-embiid
How do you score on them?
Kawhi should’ve been a no-brainer in the first place. If he’s healthy I would put him in the starting 5
This news basically meant he’s ready to go for the playoffs. Maybe not 100% tho
Then shortly after Ty Lue confirmed he’s practicing and ramping back up.
There is NO way this team doesn’t win. Maybe other countries will have a starting 5 that can somewhat keep up (IMO hell no), but look at the fucking bench, what country could possibly not just stay in the game with their starting 5, but then have a bench good enough to not get absolutely destroyed by USA’s bench.
Not American, but this team USA has put together is a powerhouse among power houses. Im thinking prioritizing D is a great move, might separate the men from the boys as they say
Kawhi’s gonna get those ‘92 Bird minutes
figured they’d choose a wing to round out the roster. was hoping it’d be Jaylen Brown but can’t be mad at Kawhi
So he’s gonna play for the Olympics?
“I didn’t say anything”
Okay so who’s gonna be replacement when he can’t play for some reason?
He probably doesn’t answer work texts on personal time.
Responded to Grant Hill the moment practice started.
“Hey. Yeah”
Lebron, Steph, KD, and Kawhi all on the same team. Probably the Mt. Rushmore of the 2010s era. I hope they all stay healthy cuz if they do, that era will be going out with a bang
So who starts on this team?
Curry, Durant and LeBron of course because of seniority. I like the idea of starting Holiday and Embiid for defensive coverage as well.
Leonard and Tatum spell Durant and LeBron.
Davis spells Embiid.
Haliburton and Edwards spell Curry and Holiday.
Booker might be the best guard option for nailing 3s while Adebayo can do a lot of everything.
SAS crying shitting and puking rn.
Yeah, that U.S. team looks pretty unbeatable.
I’ll be honest seeing Lebron, Curry, KD, Kawhi, AD all on the same team USA makes me feel some type of way. All legends and first ballot HOFamers so it will be cool, like all of their last hurrah’s
I need a Lebron, Tatum, KD, Kawhi, AD lineup. Ultra-switchable Forward lineup would be the next / perfect iteration of basketball
who will replace kawhi?
This roster is insane, between Steph/lebron/KD/AD/embiid/tatum/healthy kawhi/Book you’ve got like 8 of the top like ~12ish players in the nba on your squad
Lots of legacy players.
Reminder that Dillon Brooks started all of this