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Basketball, Men

Date27 July – 10 August 2024
StatusOlympic
LocationBercy Arena, Bercy, France / Pierre Mauroy Stadium, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France
Participants142 from 12 countries
FormatRound-robin pools advance teams to classification matches.

The favorites were the United States’ team, which had won the last four gold medals and had won 16 of the previous 20 gold medals in the sport. The USA had a full team of NBA players, led by LeBron James, Kevin Durant, and Steph Curry. They were coached by Steve Kerr, long-time coach of the Golden State Warriors. The USA was no longer so dominant that other teams rolled over for them, with Germany, the 2023 World Cup champion, and Spain both expected to challenge for the gold medal. France was hoping for medals from their men’s team, which had won silver at Tokyo 2020, and defeated the United States in a group stage match.

The United States, Germany, and Canada led the groups, all going unbeaten and advancing to the quarter-finals. The USA crushed Brazil in the quarters, 122-87, with Germany winning easily over Greece. France defeated Canada to advance to the semi-finals, along with Serbia.

Serbia gave all the United States could handle in the semi-finals, leading for much of the last two periods, but in the end, the USA pulled out the victory, 95-91. The other semi was just as close, with host nation France defeating Germany 73-69. Serbia would win the bronze medal, defeating Germany 93-83.

The United States was favored in the gold medal match and France was supported by the home crowd and led for much of the final periods. France had nobody to contain Steph Curry, however, the consensus greatest outside shooter of all-time. With the match on the line, Curry hit four three-pointers in the last few minutes, despite France knowing he was going to shoot and defending him well. The final dagger was absurd, with two French defenders draped over him, but he hit a 9-metre fallaway three to seal the victory, as the United States pulled away to win by 11, 98-87, for their fifth consecutive gold medal and 17th in the sport.

PosNumberTeamNOC
1United StatesUSAGold
Shooting Guard4Steph Curry
Guard5Anthony Edwards
Guard6LeBron James
Guard7Kevin Durant
Guard8Derrick White
Guard9Tyrese Haliburton
Small Forward10Jayson Tatum
Center11Joel Embiid
Guard12Jrue Holiday
Center13Bam Adebayo
Center14Anthony Davis
Guard15Devin Booker
CoachSteve Kerr
2FranceFRASilver
Point Guard1Frank Ntilikina
Small Forward5Nicolas Batum
Point Guard6Andrew Albicy
Power Forward7Guerschon Yabusele
Shooting Guard8Isaïa Cordinier
Shooting Guard10Evan Fournier
Shooting Guard12Nando de Colo
Center26Mathias Lessort
Center27Rudy Gobert
Power Forward32Victor Wembanyama
Point Guard85Matthew Strazel
Small Forward99Bilal Coulibaly
CoachVincent Collet
3SerbiaSRBBronze
Center0Uroš Plavšić
Center3Filip Petrušev
Power Forward5Nikola Jović
Shooting Guard7Bogdan Bogdanović
Shooting Guard9Vanja Marinković
Shooting Guard13Ognjen Dobrić
Power Forward15Nikola Jokić
Point Guard22Vasilije Micić
Shooting Guard23Marko Gudurić
Small Forward27Dejan Davidovac
Point Guard30Aleksa Avramović
Center33Nikola Milutinov
CoachSvetislav Pešić
4GermanyGER
Point Guard0Isaac Bonga
Power Forward1Oscar da Silva
Point Guard4Maodo Lô
Small Forward5Niels Giffey
Guard6Nick Weiler-Babb
Center7Johannes Voigtmann
Guard9Franz Wagner
Power Forward10Daniel Theis
Forward13Moritz Wagner
Point Guard17Dennis Schröder
Power Forward32Johannes Thiemann
Shooting Guard42Andreas Obst
CoachGordie Herbert
5CanadaCAN
Guard0Luguentz Dort
Shooting Guard1Nickeil Alexander-Walker
Guard2Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
Forward3Melvin Ejim
Guard4Jamal Murray
Point Guard7Dwight Powell
Center8Trey Lyles
Small Forward9RJ Barrett, Jr.
Forward13Kelly Olynyk
Point Guard19Andrew Nembhard
Small Forward24Dillon Brooks
Center92Khem Birch
6AustraliaAUS
Point Guard1Dyson Daniels
Guard3Josh Giddey
Guard5Patty Mills
Small Forward6Josh Green
Small Forward7Joe Ingles
Guard8Matt Dellavedova
Point Guard11Danté Exum
Center13Jock Landale
Power Forward15Nick Kay
Small Forward17Jack McVeigh
Center22Will Magnay
Center26Duop Reath
CoachBrian Goorjian
7BrazilBRA
Point Guard2Yago dos Santos
Center6Cristiano Felício
Shooting Guard7Didi Louzada
Shooting Guard8Vítor Benite
Point Guard9Marcelinho Huertas
Shooting Guard11Gui Santos
Small Forward14Léo Meindl
Point Guard23 Raulzinho
Guard32Georginho de Paula
Forward45Mãozinha Pereira
Power Forward51Bruno Caboclo
Power Forward99Lucas Dias
CoachAleksandar Petrović
8GreeceGRE
Point Guard0Thomas Walkup
Guard5Giannoulis Larentzakis
Shooting Guard6Dimitrios Moraitis
Guard7Vasilis Toliopoulos
Point Guard8Nikolaos Kalathis
Guard11Panagiotis Kalaitzakis
Center14Giorgos Papagiannis
Forward15Vasilis Charalampopoulos
Small Forward16Kostas Papanikolaou
Forward34Giannis Antetokounmpo
Small Forward44Dinos Mitoglou
Power Forward33Nikos Chougkaz DNS
CoachVasilis Spanoulis
9South SudanSSD
Guard4Carlik Jones
Small Forward5Nuni Omot
Center6Khaman Maluach
Shooting Guard7Bul Kuol
Small Forward9Wenyen Gabriel
Power Forward10JT Thor
Power Forward11Marial Shayok
Point Guard12Jackson Makoi
Point Guard13Majok Deng
Power Forward14Peter Jok
Shooting Guard15Sunday Dech
Guard8Kuany Ngor Kuany DNS
CoachRoyal Ivey
10SpainESP
Guard2Lorenzo Brown
Center4Jaime Pradilla
Small Forward5Rudy Fernández
Forward6Xabi López-Arostegui
Small Forward7Santiago Aldama
Shooting Guard8Darío Brizuela
Point Guard9Alberto Díaz
Forward10Juan Alberto Hernangómez
Center14Willy Hernangómez
Forward16Usman Garuba
Small Forward21Álex Abrines
Guard23Sergio Llull
CoachSergio Scariolo
11JapanJPN
Point Guard2Yuki Togashi
Small Forward4Akira Jacobs
Point Guard5Yuki Kawamura
Shooting Guard6Makoto Hiejima
Point Guard7Kai Toews
Small Forward8Rui Hachimura
Small Forward12Yuta Watanabe
Small Forward18Yudai Baba
Center24Joshua Hawkinson
Shooting Guard30Keisei Tominaga
Center34Hugh Watanabe
Small Forward91Hirotaka Yoshii
CoachTom Hovasse
12Puerto RicoPUR
Power Forward0Isaiah Piñeiro
Forward1George Conditt
Point Guard3Jordan Howard
Shooting Guard9Davon Reed
Point Guard10José Álvarado
Guard11Stephen Thompson, Jr
Forward12Aleem Ford
Guard24Gian Clavell
Center28Ismael Romero
Power Forward32Christopher Ortiz
Power Forward41Arnaldo Toro
Point Guard51Tremont Waters
CoachNelson Colón

Preliminary Round

Date27 July – 3 August 2024

Group A

Date27 July – 2 August 2024
FormatRound-robin pools.
PosTeamNOCWinsLossesPointsPoints
1CanadaCAN306267-247
2AustraliaAUS122246-250
3GreeceGRE122233-241
4SpainESP122249-257
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Match #127 Jul 11:00AustraliaAUS92 – 80SpainESP
Match #227 Jul 21:00CanadaCAN86 – 79GreeceGRE
Match #330 Jul 11:00SpainESP84 – 77GreeceGRE
Match #430 Jul 13:30CanadaCAN93 – 83AustraliaAUS
Match #502 Aug 13:30GreeceGRE77 – 71AustraliaAUS
Match #602 Aug 17:15CanadaCAN88 – 85SpainESP

Group B

Date27 July – 2 August 2024
FormatRound-robin pools.
PosTeamNOCWinsLossesPointsPoints
1GermanyGER306268-221
2FranceFRA214243-241
3BrazilBRA122241-248
4JapanJPN030251-293
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Match #127 Jul 13:30GermanyGER97 – 77JapanJPN
Match #227 Jul 17:15FranceFRA78 – 66BrazilBRA
Match #330 Jul 11:00BrazilBRA102 – 84JapanJPN
Match #430 Jul 21:00GermanyGER86 – 73BrazilBRA
Match #502 Aug 17:15FranceFRA94 – 90JapanJPN
Match #602 Aug 21:00GermanyGER85 – 71FranceFRA

Group C

Date28 July – 3 August 2024
FormatRound-robin pools.
PosTeamNOCWinsLossesPointsPoints
1United StatesUSA306317-253
2SerbiaSRB214287-261
3South SudanSSD122261-278
4Puerto RicoPUR030228-301
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Match #128 Jul 11:00South SudanSSD90 – 79Puerto RicoPUR
Match #228 Jul 17:15United StatesUSA110 – 84SerbiaSRB
Match #331 Jul 17:15SerbiaSRB107 – 66Puerto RicoPUR
Match #431 Jul 21:00United StatesUSA103 – 86South SudanSSD
Match #503 Aug 17:15United StatesUSA104 – 83Puerto RicoPUR
Match #603 Aug 11:00SerbiaSRB96 – 85South SudanSSD

Quarter-Finals

Date6 August 2024
FormatWinner of each match advanced to the semi-finals.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #106 Aug 18:00FranceFRA82 – 73CanadaCAN
Match #206 Aug 11:00GermanyGER76 – 63GreeceGRE
Match #306 Aug 21:30United StatesUSA122 – 87BrazilBRA
Match #406 Aug 14:30SerbiaSRB95 – 90AustraliaAUS

Semi-Finals

Date8 August 2024
FormatWinner of each match advanced to the final round.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #108 Aug 17:30FranceFRA73 – 69GermanyGER
Match #208 Aug 21:00United StatesUSA95 – 91SerbiaSRB

Final Round

Date10 August 2024
FormatMedal round.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match 1/210 Aug 21:30United StatesUSA98 – 87FranceFRA
Match 3/410 Aug 11:00SerbiaSRB93 – 83GermanyGER