The Paris Olympics 2024 was a sports tournament with constant dramatic matches. Basketball was one of the Olympic sports that involved much tense action. For this Olympics, the USA basketball team assembled its best players from the world's most famous league: the NBA. Lebron James, Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, and many excellent players joined the USA basketball team, nicknaming them the "Avengers."

However, multiple teams might have prevented the USA basketball team from winning the gold medal. Serbia has the NBA's most valuable player, Nikola Jokic, and was a significant threat to the USA on their journey to the top. Canada was led by Shai Gilgeous Alexander, followed by RJ Barret and Dillion Brooks. All three are scintillating players who marked their names in the NBA season. 

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Yet, there are teams that are not led by basketball stars but are still great. The reason behind this is that role players in the NBA played well in the Olympics. Players such as Patty Mills play incredibly well when they play for their country, Australia. While he averaged 8.8 points per game in his NBA career, he averaged 23.3 points with 6.3 assists in the Tokyo Olympics.

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With this in mind, no team was to be taken lightly because they all had the potential for the gold medal. However, the firepower of Lebron James, Steph Curry, and Kevin Durant was too much for any team to handle. Eventually, the USA basketball team was able to achieve their fifth consecutive men's basketball gold medal.

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