Paris Olympics: LeBron James rallies top US basketball players to join national team in quest for fifth consecutive gold
- The 38-year-old helped the US win gold at both the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics but sat out of Rio and Tokyo
- NBA’s Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis, Draymond Green and Jayson Tatum also express interest in playing in Paris.
NBA superstars LeBron James and Stephen Curry are among several top players interested in competing for the United States at next year’s Paris Olympics, according to multiple reports on Monday.
Two-time Olympic champion and four-time NBA champion James has been recruiting fellow NBA stars for a US squad that seeks a fifth gold medal in a row next year in France.
Curry, a guard with the Golden State Warriors, has expressed a desire to play on the Olympic squad guided by Warriors coach Steve Kerr.
The news comes a day after a US team of 20-something NBA stars left the Fiba Basketball World Cup empty-handed following losses to Canada in the bronze-medal game and to eventual champion Germany in a semi-final.
James, 38, led the USA to Olympic gold in 2008 at Beijing and 2012 at London but has not played since.
He knows the sting of defeat on the global stage, however, having been a reserve on the 2004 US squad that settled for bronze at the Athens Olympics and a 2006 team that took bronze at the Basketball World Cup.
