Tatum and Holiday make Olympic Team

[Moranis]

11 of the 12 announced includes Tatum and Holiday.  Along with Lebron, Steph, KD, Embiid, Booker, AD, Ant, Bam, and Haliburton.

Can't imagine that team loses unless they end up with like 4 healthy players.

[Larry for 3]

Don’t sleep on Canada. Their roster COULD look something like this :

- Shai Gilgeous Alexander
- Lu Dort
- Jamal Murray
- Dillon Brooks
- Andrew Wiggins
- Bennedict Mathurin
- RJ Barrett
- Chris Boucher
- Kelly Olynyk
- Shaedon Sharpe
- Dwight Powell
- Zach Edey
- Nickeil Alexander Walker
- Trey Lyles

[jambr380]

I’d rather Jrue give up his spot to Jaylen or White. He’s older and we just signed him to a huge extension.

Hopefully they don’t forcefeed our guys too many minutes. But congratulations to them for making the team

[Celtics2021]

I’d rather Jrue give up his spot to Jaylen or White. He’s older and we just signed him to a huge extension.

Hopefully they don’t forcefeed our guys too many minutes. But congratulations to them for making the team

I don’t think White or Jaylen would be next in line if Jrue gave up his spot, personally.  Love them both, but I’d bet Mitchell is the next guard up.

[jambr380]

I’d rather Jrue give up his spot to Jaylen or White. He’s older and we just signed him to a huge extension.

Hopefully they don’t forcefeed our guys too many minutes. But congratulations to them for making the team

I don’t think White or Jaylen would be next in line if Jrue gave up his spot, personally.  Love them both, but I’d bet Mitchell is the next guard up.

Oh, I know that. They weren’t even mentioned as alternates - just trying to keep it in the family.

[Celtics2021]

I’d rather Jrue give up his spot to Jaylen or White. He’s older and we just signed him to a huge extension.

Hopefully they don’t forcefeed our guys too many minutes. But congratulations to them for making the team

I don’t think White or Jaylen would be next in line if Jrue gave up his spot, personally.  Love them both, but I’d bet Mitchell is the next guard up.

Oh, I know that. They weren’t even mentioned as alternates - just trying to keep it in the family.

Got it.  The player I’m most worried about is Porzingis.  Latvia has its last chance to qualify in a tournament that begins on July 2nd, and I believe requires playing four games over six days.  That’s a lot of games not long after the Finals for someone who missed a lot of time this year.

[aefgogreen]

I’d rather Jrue give up his spot to Jaylen or White. He’s older and we just signed him to a huge extension.

Hopefully they don’t forcefeed our guys too many minutes. But congratulations to them for making the team

From everything I've heard, the coaches rave about Jrue - he sets the tone for the team.

[Neurotic Guy]

I’ll make the unpopular statement: the Olympics isn’t very meaningful to me. I’ve watched less and less in general over the years and I’m not sure I’ll watch much of the basketball tournament.  Just hope no one gets hurt and they are able to rest, heal, and do some summer work.

[ozgod]

12th is apparently Kawhi.



https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/39957538/sources-clippers-kawhi-leonard-get-final-team-usa-spot

[ozgod]

I’ll make the unpopular statement: the Olympics isn’t very meaningful to me. I’ve watched less and less in general over the years and I’m not sure I’ll watch much of the basketball tournament.  Just hope no one gets hurt and they are able to rest, heal, and do some summer work.

I don’t think that statement is all that unpopular among fans, NG…that said I’m the opposite, I’ve always loved the Olympics and the concept of global competition and representing your country, especially in basketball. I love the FIFA World Cup for the same reason.

I do think I’m out of step with other Americans in enjoying this though, and that your opinion is actually the popular, majority one - because we tend to play homegrown sports here in our country that nobody or few other countries play, and we’re clearly the best at them as a result, the best competitions are local or domestic, rather than international. Even basketball, which many other countries play, the NBA is clearly the highest quality competition, even if these days many of the best players in the NBA (Giannis, Luka, Shai, Jokic) are international.

 While in other countries the main team sports they play tend to be ones that lots of other countries play, like soccer or rugby or cricket, and so their pinnacle of competition is international.

So basketball is probably the only other sport that has that truly international feel to it (baseball is America and East Asia centric, hockey is North and East Europe centric) where I can watch players from my favorite sport come together on a superteam and play against the rest of the world representing the American flag and for that reason I love it. I  understand why people would think it’s a waste of time though 

[keevsnick]

Personally I don't care that much about the Olympics. The US should win given our hoops infrastructure and population size. So its almost like there's only downside, the US wins and its "well, they should" but if they lose or even if its close the discourse gets annoying.

I suppose its nice to have guys on the Olympic team for recruiting purposes, but the c's have their team locked up long term so even that doesn't matter that much. I just want Tatum and Holiday to get through without getting injured. I get nervous when you have guys making a long playoff run followed by Olympics followed by what should be a long playoff run next year as well.

[stb]

Grant Hill presents Team USA Olympic jerseys to Tatum and Holiday

https://sports.yahoo.com/grant-hill-presents-team-usa-201829302.html

[SHAQATTACK]

Never mind 

[michigan adam]

12th is apparently Kawhi.



https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/39957538/sources-clippers-kawhi-leonard-get-final-team-usa-spot

Allot of old guys...hope they don't just get run by...