Report: LeBron James, Stephen Curry, and Joel Embiid will be on the USA basketball team for the Olympics in Paris

At the next Olympics in Paris, Team USA will field some formidable competitors.

LeBron James, Stephen Curry, and Joel Embiid are part of the final team that USA Basketball is assembling for the Summer Games, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. According to the source, the roster will also feature Anthony Edwards, Jrue Holiday, Bam Adebayo, Anthony Davis, Tyrese Haliburton, Jayson Tatum, Devin Booker, and Kevin Durant.

According to the source, Team USA may decide to initially leave one position vacant. Steve Kerr, the head coach of the Golden State Warriors, will lead the club. His assistants will be Mark Few of Gonzaga, Erik Spoelstra of the Miami Heat, and Tyronn Lue of the Los Angeles Clippers.

Tatum, Durant, Booker, Holiday, and Adebayo are back from the 2021 Olympic gold medal winning team. James is making his Olympic debut after Team USA’s 2012 gold medal in London; he was not a member of that squad.

James will be competing in his fourth Olympics. In addition, he won bronze in 2004—the final year the United States failed to win the gold—and gold with Team USA in 2008.

Curry will be competing in his first Olympics at the Paris Games. Due to knee and ankle problems, he decided not to compete for Team USA in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

Embiid, who said in October that he would play for Team USA rather than France or his home Cameroon, will also be playing in his first Games. Embiid is a dual citizen of the United States and France.

After missing out on a medal in the FIBA World Cup in the Philippines last summer, Team USA is seeking retribution. However, the host France squad, which may include Victor Wembanyama and Rudy Gobert, the Serbian team, which may include Nikola Jokić, and the Canadian team, which anticipates Shai-Gilgeous Alexander, might provide fierce competition.