Team USA closed out an unbeaten run through the Olympics by defeating France 98-87 in Saturday’s gold medal game.
In front of a thunderous home crowd, the French team was able to close within three points late in the contest, but Stephen Curry sealed the victory by sinking four dramatic three-pointers in the final three minutes. Playing in his first Olympics, Curry hit eight shots from beyond the arc Saturday and led the U.S. with 24 points.
“That was an unbelievable moment,” he told NBC’s Mike Tirico. “I’ve been blessed to play basketball at a high level for a very long time. This ranks very high in terms of the excitement and the sense of relief getting to the finish line.”
Kevin Durant reached a milestone by becoming the first men’s basketball player with four Olympic golds. He made his first start of this year’s Olympics in the gold medal game and contributed 15 points.
LeBron James, who picked up his third career gold, posted 14 points, 10 assists and six rebounds, while Lakers teammate Anthony Davis had eight points and nine boards. James earned Olympics MVP honors.
It’s the fifth straight gold for Team USA, which hasn’t lost in Olympic competition since 2004. With 11 All-Stars on the roster, this year’s squad has drawn comparisons to the 1992 Dream Team as one of the most talented groups ever assembled.
“I think we might be the only team in the world whose fans are ashamed of them if they get a silver medal,” U.S. coach Steve Kerr said, per Tim Reynolds of The Associated Press. “That’s the pressure that we face. But our players, and you saw Steph, they love the pressure. They appreciate this atmosphere and they were fantastic.”
The French took home silver for the second straight Olympics after also losing to the Americans in the gold medal game at Tokyo. Victor Wembanyama had his best game of the tournament on Saturday with 26 points and seven rebounds, while Guerschon Yabusele added 20 points.
France became the first nation to win a medal while hosting the Games since Team USA did it in 1996.
“For sure, it’s a disappointment because we expected we could do it,” French coach Vincent Collet said. “But we have to recognize at the end that they are better. We are very close … When they make fantastic shots, that’s the difference.”
Serbia claimed the bronze medal by defeating Germany earlier today.
I wonder what the Kerr haters and Celtic fans will complain about now.
Dave Portnoy is maybe the dumbest man who talks sports in the USA. Tatum isnt even the best player on the Celtics, and he choked in the finals and in his Olympic minutes. It wasnt “Kerr” it was Kerr and Ty Lue and Erik Spoelstra, its really silly to put all the blame on Kerr when he had HOF level coaches on his staff helping him.
The #1 goal was a gold medal so they did it so no more complaining about Tatum not playing.
and who had the ball when it mattered most?
Look at Steph Curry man, so inspirational!!!
Jayson Tatum? File not found
So it was Steve Kerr who won this game?
So going 10-17 from FT line, 9-30 from 3, 3 turnovers in the last 4 minutes and two missed layups had nothing to do with it?
Steve Kerr sat Joel Embiid for 2 full quarters? That is great coaching.
You Kerr lovers are hilarious. Steph bails USA out twice and you claim its amazing coaching.
Steve Kerr is a terrible basketball coach who only wins bc of Steph.
But please explain why Embiid, a Golbert and Wemby killer, sat for two full quarters. Oh yeah its the rotation right?
Ill add this.
GSW will be lucky to make the playoffs. Steph cannot make that happen
oh those bitter tears taste so good. Celtics will lose in teh finals to Curry again nite nite
Steph will be a month plus into his Hawaiian vacation by the time Boston starts their 2nd Finals trip in a row. Chef will likely be contemplating retirement at that point after losing to the Rockets in the Play-In.
@eriktheredd after everything that sick freak Steph Curry has done to people who have said exactly what youre saying in the past, if you chose not to learn from others mistakes, and you chose to make them again. Skill issue. You look at the GSW long roster of all good players, led by the GOAT, and say its not a playoff team? Its a top 4 roster as is. You dont know ball. You will see…
“You look at the GSW long roster of all good players, led by the GOAT, and say its not a playoff team?”
LoL, Yes, that is exactly what everyone outside of the GS fanbase believes.
“You dont know ball.”
Yeah good luck with that. Have fun going back to school in the next couple weeks. you’re going to have so much fun in junior high!
@eriktheredd
I know ball. You do not. If you question Curry after what he just did you are riddled with delusion. Sorry you are bad at enjoying things.
Right. Bro you can barely speak English yet you’re spouting off about your BBIQ. OK.
Maybe its time for you to go back to celebrating with that Steph Curry Fathead on your wall, I’m sure he enjoys listening to your rambling diatribes.
Its not “rambling diatribes” its more “Steph Curry, why are you the best player ever?” Keep on coping, its not utterly transparent that you still let Steph live rent-free.
Look at all of those big words, Good For You!!
Sorry, but if you think Curry is the all-around GOAT you do not know ball. Same with those that think that of Kobe.
If you mean just pure shooter GOAT, sure. But there’s more to basketball than just shooting. Defense, passing, inside scoring, rebounding … Curry doesn’t even sniff the top 100 all-time in most categories.
For all-around game there have been many better players. Players that excel at just about everything. Curry is a beast, but being a beast that happens to be on the team you cheer for in the time period you happen to be watching doesn’t make him the GOAT. It just makes him one of the best of his era.
Curry is Warriors’ all time leader in assists and steals. And hes an above average defender. Curry was named as one of the top 75 players in NBA, which was voted by current and former NBA, coaches etc. So, people who actually know ball consider him as one of the greatest players of all time. His ball handling, underrated rebounder. He nearly averaged a triple double in the 2017 finals.
A two time MVP, A FMVP and four rings. His accolades speak for themselves.
@ arc. That’s way out there. Anyways, Kerr can talk all he wants. The answer to every question is ‘and? We won a Gold Medal, next.
@arc: Learn how to spell “The”, then you can talk trash
Also I have never complained. I love that he sat Tatum. Kept him healthy, did not tire him out and probably sparked him to get even better for the NBA season.
Steve Kerr and Grant Hill will get rings from Boston after they win #19.
BTW the French coach is horrible as well.
Um you do know the rest of us can read right? You definitely were complain yesterday and the day before about Tatum not playing over Booker and how terrible Bookers defense is. You made several posts about it in fact. I’m also not a GSW or Kerr I hope they never make the playoffs with Kerr or Curry on the team so we can agree on that. But If you would actually watch the games you would see that the team consistently played worse when Embid and Tatum were on the court. Embid stops the ball and is lost when he isn’t the focal point of the offense and Tatum is shooting under 30% on shots outside of the paint since the start of the NBA finals.
To be fair, he doesn’t remember what account he posted that from. He’s got 3-4 now, otherwise nobody would agree with him.
Should’ve won by 30+, bunch of idiots
doesnt matter to real people
I’m a Celtics fan. Why would I complain? We just won gold with three Celtics players on the US team. And after winning the NBA Title this past season. Go USA!
BeachGuy , that’s the way Celtics fans SHOULD feel. 3 players on the team, plus Holiday and White both show they are Top 20 players.
But the Boston media and fans are STILL whining about Tatum, and it’s a bad look.
No Celtics fans are “whining” about Tatum, we’re just defending the guy when it seems like a large contingent of commenters here, mostly led by Dubs fans, are just ripping the guy because Steve Kerr didn’t play him.
Using the excuse of Tatum’s 3pt shooting as a reason why he should be sitting which is funny because during long stretches of this tourney, EVERY player on the roster has looked like crap for stretches over the past few weeks including Lebron Steph & KD.
Erikthredd , I agree that EVERY player has played poorly at times.
I haven’t seen Dubs fans “ripping” Tatum. I have seen many say that Tatum has the misfortune of being both a Top 10 player AND of playing the same position as KD and LeBron, who are better.
There are definitely Dubs fans doing this, I’ve interacted with at least 3 of them over this in the past few days. I’ll leave it at that.
Jaylen Brown > Jayson Tatum. Keep coping. Tatum chokes. Brown does not.
lol Keep dreaming kid
Erikthredd , your comments are thoughtful. I feel, however, that, as a Celtics fan, you may not be seeing fully how the nation is perceiving this.
The fans I know believe Boston is currently the class of the NBA, not only by talent, but because of the character of their leadership, led by Stevens and Mizzoula. It’s impossible not to admire these men.
That’s why the comments by Jaylen Brown, and Cousy (sounding self-centered and entitled), to Dave Portnoy (ugly and downright anti-American) are all taken so badly. Then, this Sunday morning, at a time for celebrating the country, Jayson Tatum continues to discuss how difficult the experience was for him personally. He seems blind to how the media is set to define him as a selfish child.
It’s not the Celtics way, from Mizzoula and Stephens, back to Bird, nor back to Bill Russell. The Celtics brand was earned over 70 years, and all real basketball fans want it to continue. I hope the Celtics organization acts to clean up this mess.
I agree with everything you posted there including the part about first Brown then Tatum. What I want to just point out is Brown’s situation is all because of his very own tweets while Tatum’s situation is because of decisions that he didn’t make.
The result of those decisions created this entire story that he unfortunately got dumped in, all on the world stage. Which then led to literally every idiot with a microphone in front of them to say “What’s wrong with Tatum?” and we’ve seen where that path has led us. I guarantee you that Tatum & Kerr both would have loved if this was never a topic at all, but it is. Tatum is going to have to deal with this crap probably until the season starts and the NBA world looks elsewhere. IMHO, its pretty sad that this is now part of our sports world but Tatum did nothing wrong here, Jaylen, on the other hand, did.
His situation was 100% due to posting his own thoughts on his US snub out on twitter and that is all on him. Sure maybe behind the scene everything that he’s saying about Nike is totally accurate but just let it go already. Posting that first tweet just opened a world of criticism that was from his own making and everything that comes from that after is on him.
I do hope that the Jays both just disappear for awhile until its time to jump right into training camp. Sports media was already keeping an eye on them after winning their 18th Chip to move past the Lakers then that story just evolved into what it is now. (shrugs)
Hopefully they look at this as another lesson and learn from it and with those two I believe that they will. I watched their entire development thru the years, not only basketball but also as men. They’ve always shown that they hear the critiques and they’ve always learned from it, I’m positive that this time won’t be any different.
Ericthredd , good post, thanks! I hope we can respectfully hash out one difficult point about Tatum.
Any reasonable fan agrees that his circumstances were unfair: he has an historic season, but finds himself the 3rd best SF on the team behind LeBron and KD, and then the coach doesn’t do enough to give him the minutes he deserves.
But we disagree about how badly Tatum handled this. Respectfully, I think you’re too forgiving. I believe that with greatness comes the need to subordinate your own interests to the team. Tatum could have shut the whole thing down when it first arose with “I only care about the team, so I’d appreciate no more questions on this”. That’s what Mizzoula would have advised. And his handling of adversity would have increased his public stature. That would have been difficult, but I expected Tatum to be up to it.
Instead, Tatum fed the narrative. He let his mother get national attention by complaining on Twiiter (it was discussed on the Olympics broadcast). He pouted, and then complained to others on the floor immediately after the Serbia game. Today, the day after a USA victory in which he played, but not well, he is openly complaining in the press about how difficult his experience was — making it about him. Predictably, parts of the national media have gone to work in portraying him as the ultimate spoiled brat, a product of “woke” …and “no wonder, have you seen how his mother behaves?”. Etc
As you say, this is not who Tatum really is, but it’s going to circulate for a while in the national media, and will not be forgotten.
I’m honestly not being too forgiven towards Tatum’s situation. I’m just pointing out the reality of it. Its a No Win Situation for him and no matter how he reacts to there’s always going to be criticism of him.
IIRC his quotes from above were in a Windhorst (?) interview and after that one there was probably a lineup of journalist from XX amount of different countries all looking to talk about the same topic as Windhorst.
Aristotle I sincerely think that you are downplaying what its like to be in that moment while on the world stage like that. These athletes have to answer to however many microphones that get titled their way and there are no “I’m Only Here So I Won’t Get Fined” outs for JT. If he reacts in any other way than how he did than THAT now becomes the story. There’s no happy ending for this storyline until everyone goes home.
I do agree about your Lebron & KD thought and have said the same on this forum within the past week or two. I actually compared it to Tatum & Brown’s heirarchy within the Celtics own rotation. The Jays soak up the majority of wing minutes in their NBA games and the playing time of their bench wings from 23/24: Sam Hauser, Oshae Brissett & Svi Mykhailiuk, all suffered because of this.
Of course Team USA has their own heirarchy but we’re talking the very best basketball players the US had to offer and there were definitely multiple avenues of getting them all playing time. Kerr chose otherwise and its all over now.
Keep in mind, KD could have chose to stay in GSW. Does GSW win the title in 21, 22, 23, 24 and this year if KD is on the roster instead of Wiggins? Likely, they at least make the WCF. Instead KD chose to destroy the Nets future and then joined a Suns team with no depth or point guard.
My lord that was fun though. Steph, Bron and KD all together at long last….
Thank goodness neither will be there in 28.
Then maybe the team will start playing well and not be held under 100 pts by France and Serbia with 10 hall of famers.
@CF ??? a win is a win, you obviously don’t know or enjoy anything about that if this is your reply.
Steph is more clutch than MJ, Lebron, Magic, Bird, Wilt, everyone. Accept this is reality, stop arguing it, and start ENJOYING it!
Stand up comedy is your calling.
Imagine being so arrogant about being wrong. Everyone aside from your echo chamber thinks you are weird for not agreeing with my takes tbh
Lol I have facts, you’ve produced nothing but your opinion and emotion. I probably am weird for guys from the other side of the world and I don’t care. What’s that got to do with you being unable to except facts or reality? When you have to try discredit someone’s character or achievements to prop your guy up you are more than likely wrong. You just made up Steph has hit the most buzzer beaters in nba history. Your opinions or views on curtain topics aren’t exactly solid.
You mentioned the KD possibility from another article and I definitively answered it, Davey J. Like 2022 in real life, Dubs woulda won with KD in tow. 2021: very likely not since no Klay and KD was still getting back into form during the regular season. They would not have a top 3 seeding and would not have coped well with Ayton’s official arrival on the basketball scene (just prior to his departure from relevancy less than a year later). 2023 woulda been an uphill battle; plus KD’s health comes into question over 3+ consecutive lengthy playoff runs. 2024 I’d lean towards NO as well. Does winning still matter to KD as much as it seemingly does to Steph-Klay-Dray? If the parallel-universe 2024 version of KD-on-Dubs is coupled with Klay’s unprofessional and grumpiness over his contract along with Dray’s erratic behavior on the court, then can’t imagine Dubs go anywhere with KD’s sometimes aloof demeanor.
If Tatum had played 30 minutes like Curry, they woulda won by 40.
says nobody
Tatum is a choke artist. Curry ran circles around him in the finals.
Speaking of choking, remember that time MVP Curry won 73 games and had a 3-1 lead in the Finals and lost? Yeah, good times.
Maybe Dubs fans should find a better alternative than using the word “choke” to bash literally any NBA player, I’m just saying.
Lol hahaha obviously not. Kyrie ripped Steph a new one, he can’t guard me, he’s not that guy.
Seriously…Kyrie over Curry? Ok, now everything else you’ve said is making sense.
Your interpretation is wrong. Not Kyrie over Curry at all. But that finals series up 3-1, Kyrie owned Steph on route to the chip.
You mean when the league interfered and let lebron suspend green for a game after lebron teabagged green? You mean that year? The year that they played 90 playoff games? Every single game, every single team played like it was game 7 of the finals. The warriors were running circles around the league those days. If lebron gets called for his travels Cavs don’t even make the finals that year. Try again
Yes, they “choked” that year. I can just imagine how many excuses you’ll make up for the year that Toronto beat them lol.
Yes that’s exactly what I mean and yes I agree the league had a hand in helping the cavs. I also thought the Green suspension was a joke. I’m talking when it mattered, when things got real and the chip was on the line Kyrie absolutely destroyed Steph. I’m not sure how that’s debatable.
> Kyrie absolutely destroyed Steph. I’m not sure how that’s
> debatable.
And, yet, here you are trying so hard as we all laugh.
Kyrie plays second fiddle. He’s 1-for-4 in Finals. We saw again this past June how the moment was too big for him. He watched the Olympics on his couch.
Steph has 4 ‘Chips, 2 MVP’s, and, as the world watched, led the US to Gold with the most clutch performance of the modern era.
That was 2016. What has Irving done since then except lose? He wanted to be the main guy in Celtics, he couldn’t do it. He partnered with Durant and Harden on the Nets, that was a disaster. Yeah, he made the finals playing second fiddle to Doncic and guess what he again lost and his performance was awful.
Curry since then has won 3 titles, a finals MVP and an Olympic Gold medal featuring two most performances in recent years.
Curry>Irving and its not even close.
*featuring two of the most clutch performances in recent years.
Steph was playing through a sprained MCL (same injury that made Jimmy Butler MISS the playoffs). Also the almighty Finals MVP from 2015 was also hurt and Bogut got hurt leaving them with….FESTUS EZELI. Thompson and Mozgov were looking like Hakeem and Sampson and ot STILL took the fully healthy and more rested Cavs 7 games lmao
Haha lol miss me with that crap, everyone is banged up if getting that far. If you need to make excuses for a guy who is supposed to be the most clutch guy of time maybe your argument is a little weak.
Steph Curry is the greatest and most clutch player of all-time. Better than MJ.
What’s your poison? Alcohol, drugs, all of the above?
It’s this thing called “watching Steph Curry play basketball better than anyone ever and be the most clutch player in league history” – it stinks that you choose to hate him instead of enjoying him while he is active.
Hate him because I scoffed at most clutch player ever, even better than MJ. There is nobody in any sport more clutch than MJ. I get it, you’re excited. Maybe sensory overload, enjoy the gold medal.
Curry has more buzzer beaters and late and close clutch buckets than MJ. Its just a fact at this point.
That is 100% false, fact check man. MJ has the most buzzer beaters and or game winners in NBA history and that’s a fact. Also do some homework on the 80’s and 90’s and how many guys from those decades made NBA top 75 compared to Steph’s era. MJ beat multiple 60 win teams giving up home court in multiple final series with said teams supposedly having the MVP of the league that particular year. Meanwhile, Steph blew a 3-1 lead while MJ going 6 from 6 with 6 finals mvps. Wasn’t Durant finals MVP in two of Steph’s chips? Search engine ‘most buzzer beaters nba history’ I’ll leave you alone now, I feel I’m talking to a very young man and don’t want to ruin your confidence. I will give one tip though. Do your own homework and form your own opinion based of what you find not based off what some clown with a hidden agenda tells you.
The league is better now than those days. MJ played against sub par teams with 1 good player.
Again completely false, do some homework young man. 80’s 90’s how many guys from MJs era made NBA top 75 compared to Steph? It’s not close. How many 60 win, 55 win teams MJ take out, now do Steph. Unfortunately for guys trying to discredit MJ facts aren’t on your side.
Well using this comprehensive Basketball Reference list link to basketball-reference.com
831 total game wining buzzer beaters have been documented going all the way back to 1946.
The top 5 players with the most game winning buzzer beaters in NBA history are:
Michael Jordan 9
Kobe Bryant 8
Joe Johnson 8
Lebron James 7
Paul Pierce 7
Steph Curry is listed as accomplishing this ONCE.
link to basketball-reference.com
I said “buzzer beaters” not “game winning buzzer beaters”. Way to move the goalposts.
@Davey J Just the type of response that I expected from you. Always making ludicrous claims with zero evidence to back it up.
That BR list alone just shows how far off many of your claims to be.
Steph has less game winners than Moochie Norris and Old Bill Laimbeer has four times more than Steph Curry. Those aren’t opinions they’re facts.
Again, your on the net aren’t you? Search engine ‘most buzzer beaters nba history’ I’m quite curtain about what name you’ll see.
Erik thanks for that info. As a warrior fan and watching a gazillion games I would have thought Curry had a lot more of those. But if that’s a stat NBA has come up with then you have to roll with it. Again good info thanks for providing it.
Side note yep, ISO Joe for the game winner !! Good stuff.
@Gary that was definitely an interesting list that I hadn’t seen before tonight. Joe was definitely a surprise and I’m still bitter about that stretch of years where Rick Pitino tossed away some legit younger players for vets to win now. I would have loved to see what Billups/Pierce/Antoine Walker/Joe Johnson could have done together in green.
@Nrg82 but Steph had Kerr as HC, MJ had the GOAT. Big difference. Steph has like 7 rings right now if Phil or Pop was his HC instead of Kerr this whole time. Also Lebron owning ESPN and getting them to minimize Steph’s reputation really stained all the Finals MVP and reg season MVP votes. Steph deserves to have 4 FMVPs not 1, and 5 regular season MVPs instead of 2. Blame Lebron buying out the NBA media in 2012 so everyone would stop making fun of him for that. “Steph and KD are together so neither is MVP instead of both”. Yeah right. Keep on coping. You don’t know ball.
MJ made the GOAT young man. Do you really think Jackson gets the Laker job if he didn’t coach MJ and Bulls. Think I might let my 6 year old daughter talk to you about basketball from now. You might learn something.
Is there anyone not saying Curry is a top 10 player of all time? If they don’t think so they don’t know basketball.
Top 1 all-time.
Hahahahaha wow. MJ, Bron, Kareem, Wilt, Kobe, Duncan, Russell, Larry, Magic…..cutting it pretty close. He’s very good but let’s not get carried away. Obviously multiple guys not mentioned yet. Cutting it pretty fine indeed. He is in the all time great category though.
I’ve had Curry at 9 since June 16th 2022.
Toad , me too, and exactly since that date because he won 2 of his 4 ‘Chips all by himself. How about:
Jordan
LeBron
Kareem
Russell
Wilt
Magic
Bird
Duncan
Steph
@aristotle I’d have Curry a bit lower at #13.
This would be my top 25 in order:
Michael Jordan
Lebron James
Bill Russell
Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Magic Johnson
Larry Bird
Shaq O’Neal
Kobe Bryant
Tim Duncan
Wilt Chamberlain
Hakeem Olajuwon
John Havlicek
Steph Curry
Moses Malone
David Robinson
Jerry West
Julius Erving
Nikola Jokic
Giannis
Dirk Nowitzki
Kevin Garnett
Scottie Pippen
Kevin Durant
Dwyane Wade
Isiah Thomas
I’d have a hard time slotting Curry over players like Kobe & Duncan when those two were elite players on both ends.
I actually like your list alot. Just two switches for me and it’s perfect. You know your stuff
Switch Wilt and LeBron and switch West and Dave Hav
Then switch Russell and Wilt
John my bad*
We may be from the same era . Keeping the discussion on Curry, agree that his defense is lacking, but his offense is exceptional. I’ll give you Shaq for the same reason I won’t give you Kobe and Havlicek, and insistbon Steph: you gotta be Batman and can try be Robin.
Judging by your avatar we’re definitely from the same era or very close to it lol. :)
Here’s how those names that you mentioned compare to Curry
Kobe:
5-2 in the Finals
1 season MVP / 2 Finals MVP
33K career points
7K rebounds
6K assists
All-NBA: 11 1st teams, 2 2nd teams & 2 3rd teams
All-Defense: 9 1st teams & 3 2nd teams
Hondo:
8-0 in Finals as Boston’s best offensive player
1 FMVP (won 5 Rings before the NBA started voting for FMVP)
26K career points
8K rebounds
6K assists
All-NBA: 4 1st team, 7 2nd teams (3rd teams didn’t exist at time)
All-Defense: 5 1st teams & 3 1nd teams
Curry:
4-2 in Finals
2 season MVP / 1 FMVP
23K career points
4K rebounds
6K assists
All-NBA: 4 1st teams, 4 2nd teams & 2 3rd teams
All-Defense: 0
All I’ll say on Shaq is he was as much of as an unstoppable force in the paint as Steph was from deep but lets keep him out of this argument when the other 3 are more comparable.
Kobe & Havlicek where every bit as good as Curry on offense, they just scored in other ways. Style points don’t count, actual points scored do and Bryant & Hondo’s points speak for themselves.
Then, we’re not talking about average to slightly above average defense like in Chef’s case (he’s definitely a smart defender but still just 6-2,) those other two were the best defenders at their position for years. Basketball is a two way sport and Kobe & Hondo were both elite defenders.
Taking nothing away from Curry’s accomplishments, this is how I rank them and its ok if someone disagrees.
As for the Batman angle you make, I’d say that Hondo had similar talent around him that were comparable to what Steph had with KD, Klay, Dray & Iggy. I won’t name off Hondo’s Celtics teammates but there’s a reason why that group from the 60-70s won more Finals than any other core group to date.
Kobe and Shaq were just as much of a partnership as Steph & KD were (and really Hondo/Russell) and Kobe’s later Lakers teams had nowhere close to the same level of talent as that Dubs lineup from the previous paragraph. Kobe won multiple Chips with lesser teams. Again, its ok to disagree here.
At nine lmao bro outplayed LeBron and KD, carried a team of stars to a gold medal and he is…9 lmao Bro elevated a mediocre team to 73 wins but yeah ninth for sure yall are funny
Yep not in that exact order but that’s who I have in front of Curry as well. He’s in front of Kobe, Shaq and Durant on my list if that makes you feel any better and if he somehow wins another championship I’ll move him into the top 6.
ChuckToad , I think we see things the same way… Kobe was #2 guy on the Lakers when Shaq was there, so I have him at #11. Durant is around #16.
I get the argument that Steph was not a great defender, but Steph’s extra ordinary offense more than compensates.
What team with three all stars, a multiple times MVP and a guy multiple all D 1st team honours is a mediocre team? How’d that 73 win team end up? You Steph Warriors fans are no different than the Bron L.A fans, very cult like lol. You remind me of those political fanatics (nut jobs) I see on TV from your country. Think how I do or else were murdering, rioting, gonna burn this whole place to the ground lol. No wonder your country is so divided. It’s not enough to win you’ve gotta burn guys or coaches on your squad to prop your boy up. Don’t stop there, let’s try discredit the GOAT while where at it.
Steph !!!!!!!
Tatum thinks this is the Celtics. He doesn’t know how to fit in. Better have learned something.
Cause we coming for YoU ……..
Oh, that bad match up you were always talking about maybe this coming season? Anything possible, injuries happen. Tell Brunson to stop falling over, he’s quickly catching Embiid in the foul hunting flopping stakes lol.
Learn the game. Watch Brunson, he’ll teach it to you.
Hahaha you saying Brunson isn’t a foul hunter? I don’t mind Brunson, he’s just a bit of a soccer player. I actually want the knicks to be good, been far too long. Was a kid when the knicks had those tough as 90’s teams. Loved the rivalries with those Bulls and Pacers teams. Awesome collection of meatheads, that guy just headbutted my elbow types lol.
@Nrg82 just totally spiraling on here, hate to see it. Having Steph cook your fave team for over a decade will do that to a man. See a therapist my dude!
We are the nba champions last I checked. I’m thankful for lessons learnt, is how Boston got to where they currently are. Tell us again how Steph is the GOAT. The most clutch player of time with the most buzzer beaters of all time again SMH.
Good win. Congratulations to USA team.
Olympics gets boring when you know US wins basically every event…
I believe China has “won” more than the US. Great games.
Lol, China dopes up its athletes in the most sophisticated cheating system every assembled. It’s an actual industry.
Honestly, I don’t care who wins and I’m from the US, although I do get the national pride that stems from one’s country medaling. I just like to see athletes competing at the highest level within their respective fields. Give me competitive matches and I’m good.
Hats off to France and Serbia for both giving the US all that they could handle over these last two games.
Holiday can play with anyone with any team. He’s a pros pro. Just gets it’s done, both ways.
I agree and I still don’t understand what the Bucks we’re doing.
I’m still angry that they traded him. Middleton was the guy to trade if someone was to be traded. Horst has been terrible for the Bucks making fear-based reactive moves.
They wanted a Superstar in Damian Lillard instead of just a star and glue guy who plays both ends in Jrue Holiday. In hindsight a big mistake.
What the Bucks looked for was the Lillard who carried the Blazers on his back in the playoffs.
You said it, Gary. I thought the Lillard-Holiday trade would work well for Milwaukee, and was dead wrong.
Hope I’m also wrong in saying injuries have caught up with Dame.
Holiday seems to be getting even better as time goes on. Lots of talk about the old guys on the team, but Jrue is 34 right now and elite in the NBA. Needs more accolades tbh
Wemby emotions a good sign. He’s definitely the next big thing.
Yeah he’s tall… that’s about it.
France are a serious problem in the not to distant future. Got a crazy production line of top end young talent NBA bound over the next three or four years atleast.
The rest of the world has not caught up with the United States. Maybe if there was a world All-Star team versus the US Olympic team they would have a good shot at beating them but no team or country right now has the talent level that we have.
“Maybe if there was a world All-Star team versus”
I would love to see this replace the actual NBA all star game. Watching a team of International NBA All Stars go all out would likely force the US team into putting in some actual effort. Maybe make it a 14 person roster with the top 14 voted players on each side. What they’re doing now is just a dog & pony show.
Yet. Not caught up yet. I can see it now. In 10 years every men’s Olympic basketball team will have 12 NBA guys.
Only two countries have more people than the US, China and India, neither of them are close to the US. If the numbers game is important the US has a huge advantage for the foreseeable future. Serbia is not going to keep producing Jokics but the US will keep producing All NBA players.
Don’t tell the crybabies though…Stay mad
Was this the best Olympic Basketball Tournament ever? High Level Basketball in every single one of the QuarterFinals games. I enjoyed it just as much as the NBA Playoffs & NCAA tournament
100% agree, every team USA game was just as high quality as any 2010’s Warriors game.
That said the only negative feelings I had from these Olympics are that KD leaving GSW really blew it for both sides. GSW got a ring but if they had KD instead of Wiggins this whole time they would have 4 rings in the 2020s instead of 1. Curry getting double teamed and finding the open KD who drains the bucket was a move I miss watching.
Team “USA” led by LeBum should have been called team China. Stand for social justice but only when it benefits you. These guys deserve to be paid minimum wage
Curry got em gold.
Jayson Tatum joins Michael Jordan (1992) & Lebron James (2012) as the only three players in NBA history that have made First Team All-NBA, won the Finals during that same season then won a Gold medal soon after.
Also, Jrue, Tatum & White are the first trio in NBA history to win the Finals and a Gold medal in the same calendar year.
The Derek White Phenomenon.
Can anyone name another player than Derek White who so late in his career (he’s 30 years old) rose from relative mediocrity (previously good, but nobody would have said great) to being universally recognized as one of top all-around players in the game?
Totally deserved.
He had injuries, and wasn’t always used right either, with the Spurs having multiple guards at the time. I thought he had a lot of potential in his draft, and he improved in areas he was already good at, defense and rebounding, when he got in better shape
Marcus Smart has been my favorite Celtic for years but its Derrick White now,by far. He really is the perfect basketball player and its been so much fun getting to see him come into his own since coming to Boston. He plays so much bigger than his 6-4 and if you need a winning play in crunch time, D White is your man.
Also his Pops is a lifelong C’s fan originally from Boston and the fanbase has embraced those two with open arms. (Derrick’s dad actually came up with the best nickname for Derrick & Jrue…The Stock Exchange for all of their combined steals & blocks)
Honestly I’m so happy that the C’s front office locked him up longterm. If & when its time to start shaving payroll, there may be riots in the streets if Derrick White’s name gets mentioned lol.
This site remains unreadable whenever a topic touches the Warriors.
Then don’t read those articles. Keep scrolling.
But the Warriors happen to be the biggest talking point in the entire nba it seems. Four rings recently helps that narrative.
Sure there’s a few people that think Steph Curry will be amazing forever but the truth of the matter is that it was a great run.
Perhaps there’s talk of putting the right pieces around Steph now and extending this Good Fortune but in a year or two we’ll put this to bed for good.
Unfortunately my memory will be revived of the very difficult 80s and 90s. It won’t be fun, but I enjoyed the Run we had recently.
Almost every topic that mentions good players on the site gets taken over by Warriors fans and there’s a small minority of them here that make every discussion warriors based or Steph Curry is the greatest based. Team X is the greatest or player X is the greatest discussions are the black holes of discussion boards.
Buckman , I lived through a similar problem on NFL boards with Patriots fans. It took 4 straight terrible seasons before they stopped dominating every discussion. Warriors mania is almost done. Patience!
(Raises hand) I was one of those Patriots but not one of your Patriots fans from whatever site that you mentioned. As a Pats fan, and a football fan in general. that was an epic stretch to be lucky enough to see firsthand.
Honestly, I wish that all sports fans could see a stretch of greatness from whatever team that they root for, in any sport. There sure as hell would be a lot less cranky commentors in every comment section lol.
One thing that I can say for my fellow Pats fans and I is, the majority of us know what we’re seeing on the field and have agreed on how crap NE has been since Brady left. The only Pats fan types that are bragging about the product on the field in 2024 are either in their early tweens or are Javey Ds.
If Warriors mania is almost done then we should be even more grateful that we got watch these past few games as basketball fans. Leaving out all of the drama and just focusing on the high level of basketball being played it really was a real joy to watch especially from the Steph Curry angle. If his career is coming to its end, it was awesome to see him have his moment on the World stage.
If you also add in the Celtics season, from start to finish, its been a year straight for C’s fans of just high stakes/high BBIQ basketball. Its been so entertaining and I’m pretty grateful for that.
We got lucky with the Red Sox the last 15 years also. I don’t follow football but this has been a pretty nice stretch considering the awful ’80s and ’90s for both my Warriors and Red sox.
You guys are right though. We have to enjoy this when we can and I can only hope that every fan enjoys some success with their favorite team or teams at some point.
I certainly don’t look forward to being crappy again once Curry retires, and the Sox look like they’re threatening to suck for a little while also. It was fun while it lasted !!
Gary, I don’t follow the Sox like I used to but my view from afar tells me that things aren’t looking up anytime soon. The Pats are in the same situation but at least there’s some hope for their future with some talented young prospects at critical positions.
The Sox can’t say the same, this ownership just decided to not invest in the team like they used to and its not like there’s some Theo Epstein level talent evaluator coming up from the wings anytime soon. Until something changes there are definitely dark days in their near future.