Olympic Basketball, American Dream Team Playground All

KOMPAS.com – The sport (sports) of basketball at the Olympic Games is like a playground for the United States men’s basketball team. In the last seven Olympic editions, the American “Dream Team” has won six gold medals.

Basketball was first played at the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis, United States. However, at that time, basketball was only a demonstration sport.

The men’s basketball category then formally competed at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The United States (US) National Basketball Team became the first gold medalist after beating the Canada in the final match.

Since 1936, the dominance of the United States in basketball has been recognized. In fact, until 1976, they only lost one gold medal, in 1972.

Throughout Olympic history, the United States has won 15 gold medals in men’s basketball.

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The US men’s basketball team became a very dangerous team when players in NBA competitions were allowed to play since the Barcelona Olympics in 1992.

Dream Team, the name of the United States’ men’s national basketball team, was at the time inhabited by big NBA stars such as Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Charles Barkley and Earvin “Magic” Johnson.

The result, Michael Jordan et al unstoppable at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. They wiped out five group stage matches with one victory.

The power of the American Dream Team I was seen with a total of 579 points scored in the group stage. In each game, they can still score more than 100 points.

The United States also made it easy to the final. In the gold medal match, the team coached by Chuck Daly managed to beat Croatia with a score of 117-85.

Return inhabited by para Super star The NBA, the American Dream Team, managed to defend the gold medal in the next two editions of the Olympic Games, namely Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000.

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However, at the 2004 Athens Olympics, the power of the Dream Team collapsed despite the strengthening of famous players such as Allen Iverson, Carmelo Anthony, Amar’e Stoudemire, down to LeBron James, who at that time made his debut with the US basketball team.

The United States men’s basketball team came to a halt in the semi-finals after being beaten by Argentina, who were then coached by shooting guard San Antonio Spurs, Manu Ginobili.

Argentina ultimately won the gold medal, while the United States had to settle for the bronze medal.

The United States then made amends in Athens by winning gold in men’s basketball at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

At that time, the Dream Team was made up of a combination of big names like Jason Kidd and Kobe Bryant as well as mature players like LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwight Howard.

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The American domination of Olympic men’s basketball continued until its last edition in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

This time at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, they are determined to continue their dominance of basketball.

Meanwhile, the US men’s basketball team for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is bolstered by top NBA players including Bam Adebayo (Miami Heat), Kevin Durant (Brooklyn Nets), Devin Booker (Phoenix Suns). ), to Khris Middleton (Milwaukee Bucks).

At the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the United States, which is the seeded team, is in Group A along with France, the Czech Republic and Iran.

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