The Americans won their fifth straight gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics, by vanquishing the home nation's team.
Despite a living reminder of the U.S.'s last non-gold medal, former 2004 bronze medalist Stephon Marbury, sitting courtside, the Team USA men's basketball program managed to vanquish Team France to secure the club's fifth straight gold medal on Saturday.Golden State Warriors All-NBA point guard Stephen Curry was special tonight for the U.S., notching his second straight game of making eight or more triples.
up 93-84 with under two minutes remaining felt like the dagger — until Victor Wembanyama quickly responded with a triple, putting France within six points, 93-87.Curry, playing in his first-ever Olympics at age 36, made an insane eighth triple against a Team France double team, putting the Americans up 96-87. Devin Booker put the finishing touches on the victory with a breakaway dunk to secure Team USA's final advantage, a 98-87 win.This marks the U.S.
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