Should LeBron James, Steph Curry & Team USA be CONCERNED at Olympics? | Hoops Tonight

Jason Timpf discusses how concerned LeBron James, Stephen Curry, and Team USA should be heading into the Paris Olympic Games following some close calls in their exhibition matchups. What should we expect in their first game against Nikola Jokic and Serbia? Later, Jason breaks down whether LeBron is the best player on a US team that includes Anthony Edwards, Anthony Davis, Joel Embiid, and several other NBA All-Stars.

Timeline:
00:00 - Is Team USA not that good?
07:13 - What's going on with Joel Embiid?
09:12 - Is LeBron James best player on Team USA?
10:42 - Why Olympics are great for players

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[RuddYHoodSports]

I’ve never seen so much negativity around an Olympic team that went 5-0 in their exhibition games.

[tjboxingsports]

Just win the GOLD!! NO USA TEAM WILL EVER DOMINATE LIKE THE 92 TEAM. DIFFERENT TIME, DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES.

[kwame]

At this point Embiid might as well be a double agent low key, contributing to Team USA losing😂

[mikemarc]

Starting lineup:
Steph
Jrue
KD
Lebron
AD

bench:
White
Ant
Tatum
Bam
Embiid

[greyklopstock]

Steve Kerr playing weird lineups? As a warriors fan for life, lemme tell you, he's been doing this for years. Small ball has only worked once, and that was cause of the combination of Steph and Draymond.
That being said, I find it hard to believe that Kerr is going to keep doing the line shifts in the actual games. There's too many guys around there with Olympic experience to let Kerr go along with stuff that does more harm than good. I suspect Kerr was mostly doing the line shifts to conceal his big ticket combinations and to make sure the older players aren't getting too worn down before the actual games. And I just can't entertain the notion that Steve would guarantee anyone starting when this year, the man benched KLAY THOMPSON for Podzemski cause Klay was having a hard time keeping up with younger assignments. If his four time champion right hand man to steph isn't safe from getting benched, then nobody is safe. Cause I'm sorry, but Klay Thompson matters more to Steve Kerr than any of these guys outside of Steph and LeBron.

[michaelhammond]

If KD, Steph, and LeBron were in their prime, this team would be gangster. Some of these dudes don't look like they are trying. Kerr is probably not the guy for this gig If he coaches the olympics like the warm up games. .

[MrGoldenFold]

I’m so tired of this “we should blow everybody out” narrative the media been peddling. The emergence of the 3 point line changed everything, anybody can be beat. Just WIN the games

[gianttv]

Jayson hoops mentioned this b4, …🤔 seems like we could see a long form investigative report in sports illustrated or Rolling Stone, type of article next yr sometime about some under the table deal to keep Imbed of of France. But J hoops talks so casually about this. Idk if we’ve seen anything like this in Olympic basketball.

[oreoakalaperoji]

1:26 Right Embiid is not on Luka's, Giannis' or Jokic's level. That's not ridiculous at all.

[NateJohnson]

Making Lebron the focal point is a mistake. Turning Team USA into the Lakers+ is a mistake.

[thoughtz]

Terrible Take! Smh! This team has more NBA champs, league MVPs and finals MVPs more than any team ever. Smh! FIBA isn’t not close to being competitive than the NBA! These players are fitting into their role’s on team. European teams have the advantage to playing with same players for every tournament.

[michaelcorcoran]

I don't remember Pippin being seriously considered as the second best player in the league ever in the '90s. Olajuwon and Shaq were pretty much always better than him. Especially in that era when the big man was God

[wt]

the fact that james is a grandpa is insane 😮

[Boomdizzle]

embiid needs to sit. Hes going to be the reason they lose a game if it gets tight

[MarkG]

Pippen wasn't even close to being the 2nd best player in 92!

Barkley was hands down number 2.

After that you had Robinson, Ewing, Malone and Magic were all way better than him.

Then it was the likes of Stockton, Drexler and Pippen in the next tier.

Lastly it was Bird with a bad back and Laetner who was only on the team because Team USA were obliged to have a rookie and they already had 2 all time great centres on the team.

You need to re-learn your basketball history young blood!

[lucasanfilippo]

Absolutely because an entire nation is believing now, to a lie that already made blind the Lakers nation: LeBron can still be the best player in the world for a small Slice of the games or tournament, etc..

[deddiev]

What you are saying is the 4 or 5 best players in the world are not American so cool

[chefalexander]

The rest of the world was not as good back then. The games will be closer but this team is still well constructed. The international teams have 1 - 3 players and the USA team has 7 or more!! Please stop trying to find crap to talk about for content!

[garrymor]

Marcos 16:15-18
15 Y les dijo: Id por todo el mundo y predicad el evangelio a TODA CRIATURA. 16 El que creyere y fuere bautizado, será salvo;
Mateo 7:21-23
21 No todo el que me dice: Señor, Señor, entrará en el reino de los cielos, SINO el que HACE LA VOLUNTAD DE MI PADRE que está en los cielos.

[Armoney]

Giannis n joker not shit they couldn’t even repeat as champion in the nba both gon end their career wit just one ring jrue holiday got more rings than both of them